Some of these connect up toward the end, others don't, but as attacks begin to happen, without anyone knowing why or who, it's clear that all these POVs will be converging as action stars shifting into high gear. We also are introduced to some other POVs. Everyone hates the Gretians who lost the war, but they really, really hate the military unit he was in. It starts deceptively slowly, as Aden, who has been a prisoner of war for five years, is released and told to get out of Rhodia. If you can't stand that sort of ending, then buy the book and stash it underneath that copy of Proust you've always meant to read, until the next comes out. But this time, the new enemy has yet to reveal themselves…or their dangerous endgame.īe warned: it's the first in a series, and ends on the sort of cliffhanger that causes readers to breathe brimstone and pitchforks. He’s been on the wrong side of war before. Now, on the cusp of an explosive and wide-reaching insurrection, Aden plunges once again into the brutal life he longed to forget. And a young woman, thrust into responsibility as vice president of her family’s raw materials empire, faces a threat she never anticipated. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground. A naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet.

After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. Martin Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. I gulped down the first book in a day, and I am already eager for the next one.” ―George R. “A new series that promises to be just as engrossing …the action just as exciting, the science just as solid, the tension just as high.

Aftershocks by marko kloos