Anonymous
10/29/2025, 8:11:14 PM
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>>24835665
The Coming Dark, #1 - D.J. Molles (2025)
The Coming Dark is set 5,000 years after the Godbreaker series, which I didn't read and didn't know it was, though it seems to have minimal connection. In that, humanity is in miserable enslavement by alien species. In this, humanity is in enthusiastic servitude to an alien species. The story keeps faking out the reader into thinking it's going to be about one thing, then pivots to another idea, then another, then another and so on, until it finally reveals what it's really about. All of this is undercut by the title, the synopsis, the Goodreads description, the promotional material, and everything else. So, I don't really know what the point of it all was. Is it better to be go in blind and be surprised by being jerked around or know what to expect and go along with it? The unfortunate part is that once it got to the main part, it wasn't what I cared about.
Humanity has been designated as the galactic police by the most advanced species, who claim to be literally unable to engage in violence. Thus, humanity is sent wherever they're needed to protect the weak and pacifistic against the aggressive. The advanced societies of the galactic civilization only admit species that have completely forsworn violence, so humanity doesn't get to be part of that. There are only around a million humans remaining, because if there were too many, they may become a threat.
This isn't a book where humanity realizes that living in servitude is bad and they overthrow their masters. Instead, there's various metaphors regarding the military and its relationship to the rest of society. All thematic material and anything of depth is pushed aside when the aliens arrive. When you're fighting for survival, should anything else matter other than survival? That's about the only question that remains.
There were a lot of good combat scenes, death everywhere, and all sorts of exciting things happening, but I came to realize that in this context I didn't care. War against aliens who won't or can't communicate and only want to destroy, destroy, destroy isn't enjoyable. I find it boring and don't feel emotionally involved or engaged in any way. I enjoyed all the lead up much more than the main event, which isn't how it's supposed to be, or at least not how I want it to be.
The next book seems to be much more of the same, and I assume third book would be as well, so I'm stopping here rather than continuing on. If an author only has a single series I like from them, then that's how it is.
Rating: 2.5/5
The Coming Dark, #1 - D.J. Molles (2025)
The Coming Dark is set 5,000 years after the Godbreaker series, which I didn't read and didn't know it was, though it seems to have minimal connection. In that, humanity is in miserable enslavement by alien species. In this, humanity is in enthusiastic servitude to an alien species. The story keeps faking out the reader into thinking it's going to be about one thing, then pivots to another idea, then another, then another and so on, until it finally reveals what it's really about. All of this is undercut by the title, the synopsis, the Goodreads description, the promotional material, and everything else. So, I don't really know what the point of it all was. Is it better to be go in blind and be surprised by being jerked around or know what to expect and go along with it? The unfortunate part is that once it got to the main part, it wasn't what I cared about.
Humanity has been designated as the galactic police by the most advanced species, who claim to be literally unable to engage in violence. Thus, humanity is sent wherever they're needed to protect the weak and pacifistic against the aggressive. The advanced societies of the galactic civilization only admit species that have completely forsworn violence, so humanity doesn't get to be part of that. There are only around a million humans remaining, because if there were too many, they may become a threat.
This isn't a book where humanity realizes that living in servitude is bad and they overthrow their masters. Instead, there's various metaphors regarding the military and its relationship to the rest of society. All thematic material and anything of depth is pushed aside when the aliens arrive. When you're fighting for survival, should anything else matter other than survival? That's about the only question that remains.
There were a lot of good combat scenes, death everywhere, and all sorts of exciting things happening, but I came to realize that in this context I didn't care. War against aliens who won't or can't communicate and only want to destroy, destroy, destroy isn't enjoyable. I find it boring and don't feel emotionally involved or engaged in any way. I enjoyed all the lead up much more than the main event, which isn't how it's supposed to be, or at least not how I want it to be.
The next book seems to be much more of the same, and I assume third book would be as well, so I'm stopping here rather than continuing on. If an author only has a single series I like from them, then that's how it is.
Rating: 2.5/5