Good story

good story and great believable universe. mark wandry and Chris Kennedy are main story writers

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LAME

What an accumulation of stoopid decisions. Sorry I bought it. Forced myself to finish

Disappointing

SPOILERS:

I don't mind a down beat or a story of reversal. It's annoying when all the main characters (except Nigel) turn into morons in order to accomplish that goal. Every last one of them demonstrates a criminal level of incompetence in their, supposed, core areas of expertise.

Do we even wonder where all the enemy battleships are?
Do we perhaps consider combined arms a thing, or that combat atavism isn't a good thing?
Do our premier intelligence gatherers have any clue about the massive, wide spread, and total infiltration of nearly every aspect of operations across multiple theaters?

Nope. Either we've just been lied to and our vaunted protagonists are just plain incompetent (seriously...did they forget about the battleships?) or it's just contrived to give a reversal. As portrayed, they don't deserve to win and I wouldn't follow them into a grocery store, much less a fight. Hell, the primary objective they are after, even if they could have captured it, there's apparently no possible way they could ever have held it. The imbalance in forces, logistics and intel are embarrassing for the home team. The most likely outcome at this point is that the things we were told happened in this story...didn't actually happen for reals, and they pretty much retcon one of the bigger events in the epilogue.

I'm wondering why bother, and after listening to an hours worth of cooking show in the next book...I think I'm done.

Note: Why does anyone believe in these visions? The ones that come true are only disclosed after the fact. There's no history of prediction as far as any other horsemen are concerned, and they sure don't seem to help with any of the intel related tasks the Golden Horde was supposedly expert in.