This is not some episodic series in which he ties of lose ends easily. He makes it tough to be a fan as he beats the bejesus out of his characters. The NSA in comparison are a bunch of hacks. They have spying down to a science, to a nanite level. The Alliance has growing pains, the jump drive is susceptible to theft and our heroes learn that the Jung are far more sophisticated an enemy than they anticipated. Prince Casmir plays a significant role, and the Jung are back on the offensive after taking a serious beating. The Ghatazak's Telles has got to be one of the highlights. And despite the fact that in the back author Ryk Brown promised another episode soon, I'm still bumming. The only real problem with 'A Show of Force,' the 13th in the Frontiers Saga series, is that I've completed reading it. Kafer has narrated all the books in the series, which I think is great to have only one narrator for the series. Jeffrey Kafer does an excellent job narrating the book. I cannot wait for the next book in the series. Brown continues to build his characters and adds new ones. The action is non-stop and the pace is fast. In fact, Brown’s writing improves with each book. Oh, how could he! The book ends in a cliff hanger. Unfortunately, Brown kills off one of the key characters. The Arora faces off two Jung battleships alone. Jessica once again goes undercover on a strange planet. He hopes to save them from destruction by the Jung and convert them into allies for the Alliance. In this book the repairs are in process and Nathan sets out to clear the Jung from neighboring star systems. The Arora and Celestia are all shot up and the asteroid repair station is also damaged. In the last book, Earth has been cleared of the Jung.

This author does not go back and fill in details from prior books.

The series should be read in order otherwise the reader is lost. It has been great fun watching Ryk Brown evolve into an excellent author. I don’t know how Ryk Brown is going to do it, but I certainly hope it will be spectacular.This is one of my favorite space operas. There are more and more plotlines and characters. It’s kind of strange to know that there’s only one more book until this series (or at least part 1 1) wraps up. Deliza comes back to show off her super smarts and upgrade the Falcons to SUPER Falcons. The Pentaurus Cluster has descended into open civil war and can no longer supply the Aurora and the Alliance. Otherwise, all sorts of things are happening. You need to raise the stakes, but the twist is almost always that the heroes found a way to survive It does rob the ending of A Show of Force a bit, but The Frontiers Saga has always felt somewhat like a television series and for that genre it fits. There will be a tense few scenes before we find out for sure.

Didn’t die in A Show of Force after all, and there’s still a chance that the Jung won’t steal a jump drive

A Show of Force by Ryk Brown