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I am old. I am a retired Army Infantry senior NCO, a retired Police Chief (it was a small department but it was all mine) and a retired Federal employee. Retired three times qualifies as old. I started reading science fiction when I was about 10 so that was almost sixty (FREAKING!!!!) years ago.

When I was young, my favorite author was Robert Heinlein. There was nothing he wrote that i didn't devour and reread over and over again. He literally was with me during a lot of traumatic times and I really believe that i was a better man for knowing Robert Heinlein's works.

Now I am old and I spend a great deal of time reading John Ringo who is every bit as influential with me as heinlein ever was.

This is just another great series by John Ringo. I canb't rate this one any higher than any of his other novels because each and every one of them is at the top of my all time favorite list. I reread all of them.


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Islands of Rage and Hope Black Tide Rising John Ringo 9781476736624 Books Reviews

Comparable to much of his previous work, typical solid Ringo action scenes with a sprinkling of his trademark snarky, tongue-in-cheek societal observations thrown in the mix. His characters, as usual, delight in skewering a number of the more pompous liberal/progressive shibboleths, including in this case a number of pseudo-celebutards which may seem...oddly familiar... name-wise. A bit heavy on the background and dialog at times, but it's germane to the plot which has several major swerves from the direction of the other books in the series. For the most part he avoids getting tied up with excessive character jibber-jabber and gets back to the action before we all die from expository boredom.

Ringos near fanatical dedication to accuracy when it comes to the details and use of handguns and small arms is a refreshing change from the usual sloppiness of other "action story" authors, who transparently attempt to "talk the talk" with zero real-world experience. He obviously knows his way around small boats and the Caribbean islands, but if you've read his other series you undoubtedly knew that already. He also gets most of the helicopter-related details right as well; again, typically NOT the case with most other "action/adventure" and military authors. Being a former military helicopter pilot myself I'm admittedly picky about that, but it bugs me when they get even the easy stuff wrong.

My main complaint about the book was that the follow-on novel (Strands of Sorrow) initially came out in audio-book only status, which I personally loathe. Although I'm sure authors love the extra income from audible.com, the audio-book version is grossly overpriced and irrelevant to actual READERS. It's since come out in a version, but I'd really like to see it priced around six bucks instead of around ten. That said, I'll undoubtedly grumble and buy it anyway.
MINOR SPOILERS I can now say (after my last order before this one) that, to the best of my knowledge, I know own every book that John Ringo has written and had published. I had issues with the 'collaboration' with Ryan Sear, so I waited until that one was in paperback. So that gives you an idea of my mindset as far as his books - if you don't own them and read them, then you're probably (as Tom Kratman would say) a tranzi.

I do not qualify for that label...

Anyway, on to my review of this book.

I titled my review as I did because during the course of this novel, Wolf Squadron manages to run into some Gurkha soldiers. In the novel by S.M. Stirling, 'The Peshawar Lancers' - which is an alternative history where the British Empire is now headquartered in India - there is an excellent description of how Gurkha soldiers are truly magnificent warriors ... if they have a proper leader. If you've read the other novels in this series, you remember how Captain Wolf ... er, Smith ... named his youngest daughter after the airplanes used in the British defense of Malta - and how even under the worst case situation, they always had Faith.

Well, now the Gurkha warriors that are found in this novel also have Faith to lead them, Faith to guide them, and Faith to follow into war. You'd almost feel sorry for the Zombies ....

If, of course, you've already read the other books in this series, what the heck are you still doing reading his review? Go buy the thing already, and read it. It showed up in my mail today, and I started reading it eating supper. Could not put it down - devoured it in one sitting. And will go back and re-read it. We've seen the idiotic movies, like World War Z, and we've had a lot of other movies and books regarding a Zombie Apocalypse. This series is probably the best one about the entire premise. And while you may not like that it's basically about a 13 (soon to be 14, unless she clears Arkansas first) Zombie Killer ... well, keep in mind that while this is fiction, it's a very plausible fiction, all things considered.

And yeah, there are bits of expository in the book. I've seen some reviews discussing whether there's too much. Thing is - when it was small, less than really a couple of hundred survivors, then no one WOULD question Faith or Sophia and their rank. But through in some fobbits, and that's when questions start. Add in the general teenager angst that suddenly your peer group doesn't have trust in you .... yeah, the expository was needed.

Oh, and one additional minor spoiler - figuring out the actual celebrities was fun. Is it too much that I enjoyed them killing Snooki? (Er, Snoopi ....)
I am old. I am a retired Army Infantry senior NCO, a retired Police Chief (it was a small department but it was all mine) and a retired Federal employee. Retired three times qualifies as old. I started reading science fiction when I was about 10 so that was almost sixty (FREAKING!!!!) years ago.

When I was young, my favorite author was Robert Heinlein. There was nothing he wrote that i didn't devour and reread over and over again. He literally was with me during a lot of traumatic times and I really believe that i was a better man for knowing Robert Heinlein's works.

Now I am old and I spend a great deal of time reading John Ringo who is every bit as influential with me as heinlein ever was.

This is just another great series by John Ringo. I canb't rate this one any higher than any of his other novels because each and every one of them is at the top of my all time favorite list. I reread all of them.