I will read book 2 of the series and see if it does. Books by John Ringo (Author of A Hymn Before Battle) Books by John Ringo John Ringo Average rating 4. A Hymn Before Battle (Posleen War Series 1) Mass Market Paperback Octoby John Ringo (Author) 3,359 ratings Book 1 of 12: Legacy of the Aldenata See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 36.37 17 Used from 6.75 3 New from 35.00 7 Collectible from 24. I have hopes for this story and think it can get better. Plot devices are thick in this book - the galactic technology in this story occupies the same niche as Merlin's magic in the story of Arthur.Īll this having been said, I am interested in seeing what will happen when the Posleen get to Earth. As a female reader, I wasn't pleased about her portrayal. Another issue is that though there is a woman warrior on the cover of the book, there is evidently only one minor female character in John Ringo's military and she is more concerned about her manicure than anything else. There are loose ends and it is obvious that the writer intended this book to be the first of a series which is something I think only seasoned writers should do. For a writer's first book, there are too many side plots and too many characters to pull off smoothly. This story-telling style is reminiscent of some of the later books in David Weber's Honor Harrington series where the word for word war room detailed discussions bore readers to death. There are so many acronyms in this book it gets distracting and unless a reader is very, very familiar with military terms and acronyms it can get tedious. The concept is basic but the author gets very bogged down in a lot of needless detail. Earth has 5 years to get ready for the wave of hell on earth that is about to descend.

Ok - there's more to it than that but that's the basic idea.

Ruthless aliens are on their way to Earth to eat us.

A hymn before battle