Call to Arms: Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 2

I found this weighting took me on a journey of how human behavior can so detereate when they we think only about ourselves as more important than anyone else..A dark side of humanity that will alow others to be lost as long as its not themselves !But one very unlikely man who was looked down on held to his grit and stood up to being in the mist of battle !Battle of whits, battle of oppenions, and in the battle of war itself !Well layer out and a very entertaining unfolding of unexpected direction and outcomes !Found book one and two a well told story of humanity fighting to survive from an unstoable invasion and humans too busey to notice !!Got to keep reading this one to the very end of this series !

Every once in a while, I run into a military science fiction series that I just can’t put down. Fortunately for me, the books in the series have already been published and I’m late to the original release. But, that’s oh so great for me in that I can get all the books in the series read one after the other. I love doing that and that’s exactly what I’m doing with this Black Fleet Trilogy. I have never read a Joshua Dalzelle book, but that’s about to change. I’m now aware of his Omega series and I’ll definitely be checking it out and soon.If you remember the latter part of the first book, Captain Jackson Wolfe (man, why couldn’t I have been given a name like that?) is being his normal disbelieving self as he’s recovering from his last battle with the Phage Alpha. If you remember in the last book, he has just rammed the Blue Jacket into a huge hole blown out of the Alpha ship near Xa’in. Of course that took care of both ships and save the planet, for the time-being.Believe it or not, he survived that smash-up although he was certain it wasn’t going to be the last thing he ever did. The Command module he was in, was blasted clear to the final explosion and then tracked down by the recovery teams. Captain Wolfe spent two months in the hospital understanding that he lost a good part of one leg and maybe his career. Then, the most satisfying thing happened. The CIS came in and arrested Admiral Alyson Winters during the hearing for both Captain Wolfe and Commander Wright. She was sure she had them and was going to drum both out of the service. Except she now finds herself in prison! Very satisfying.Captain Wolfe is now a Senior Captain. He was going to be promoted to Admiral, but couldn’t stand the thought of being behind a desk, so he fought vigorously to have that not happen. He then was given a brand new ship with the most advance capabilities ever produced by the Tsuyo Corporation. He also found that he was now in command of five Wolfe-class starship, the Black Fleet, Ninth Squadron!So, he immediately takes his squadron back into the fight. He’s back a Xi’an where he finds the Phage has completely taken over the planet and is now producing more Alphas. Two Alphas are arising from the surface of Xi’an. He knows that his squadron will be tested to the limit, but they must destroy these two Alphas before they can begin destroying other planets in human space. And, that’s about what happens all during this book. Captain Wolfe and his new ship, the Ares, find themselves constantly going into battle. He also lost his XO, Commander Wright, who is now in command of one of the new starships, the Icarus. Starship officers that have battle experience are few and far between, so she had to go command her own ship and now was the time.This book also revels a lot of political back-fighting between the politicians on Haven and the rest of the Confederacy. Most of the Alliances that make up the Confederacy have decided they do not want to fight in this war. They haven’t been at war in over 200 years and they are not threatened now, so they’re not willing to give up their respective fleets that have habitually protected their Alliances. And, then Captain Wolfe finds out that he’s been abandoned by his own Chief of Staff and the President of the Confederation.There is so much going on in this book. But, it is very exciting. I could hardly put the books down. I think you’ll find them just as good. So far, the author hasn’t left anything hanging and what should happen, does eventually happen. Still, Captain Wolfe and his squadron of 5 new starships can hardly defeat the entire Phage armada, ok can they?

Captain Jackson Wolfe survived his major battles with the alien enemy called the Phage. He is known throughout human space for his bravery and his tactical skills in defeating the massive alien ship at the risk of his own life. He is assigned to a new state of the art destroyer as his 40 year old warship was destroyed in his last battle. The new ship is faster, more powerful and it has much better weapons than his last ship but it is smaller. He is given the first ship off of the line and made the Senior Captain of a small fleet the new destroyers and he leads them into battle. His crew fights with superior tactics and batters the enemy forces while the poor leadership and fighting skills of the other ship captains is obvious and a problem. How will he and the human forces every defeat an enemy that has better technology, no fear of death and more ships to fight with…..This is a very good military Sci-Fi tale of a brave Captain fighting to save humanity. He faces an alien foe that is relentless and merciless in destroying humans and even entire worlds. He also faces the frustration of superior ranked commanders that fly only desks and not spacecraft and have never seen battle. Politicians stall and delay the military buildup to protect the human planets and actually blame him for starting an Alien war…..This second book is well written and the action and storyline is very good. The author goes into more detail in building and filling in the backgrounds of the main characters and the troubled times in which they are living. The book is good for me as it is one of my favorite genres to read and I liked the battles, action and science involved in the story. It is a story about a brave Captain and his crew that are willing to do what it takes to win.I purchased the Kindle book version and the Audible version of this story. The audible book was excellent in the way it was professionally narrated. I enjoyed the book and I rated it at 5 stars. This is a good book and I have already purchased the next book of the series.

It never lost it's pace and continued to build, then all the sudden. I sure didn't expect that last part. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Plenty of action and charactor building. Carries over well from where the first book left off. Recommend everything I've read from this author.

Can I say this book is better than the first. It is packed with action, space battles, defeats and wins. The enemy is ruthless, there is no discussion just destruction. Politics are causing serious problems when our very existence is threatened where will it end?

Das erste Buch der Reihe hat mich ziemlich vom Hocker gerissen. Ich konnte es nicht mehr weglegen.Nun ist der Nachfolger da und ich bin ein wenig enttäuscht. Es ist zwar klasse die Geschichte weiter verfolgen zu können, jedoch sind viele gute Dinge des ersten Teils verloren gegangen. Die militärische und gut recherchierte Atmosphäre leidet unter dem gefühlten Zwang, die Story aufzuplustern. Vom Ende mal ganz angesehen.Wer wissen will wie die Geschichte weitergeht, und genauso begeistert vom ersten Teil war wie ich, wird auch um dieses Buch nicht herumkommen. Aber man sollte nicht zu viel erwarten.

Nach dem ersten Band der Trilogie war ich gespannt wie es weitergeht. Dummerweise verwendet der Autor am Ende dieses Bandes, der eigentlich ganz gut ist, eine "Deus ex Machina" Lösung um das Universum zu retten. Da wäre viel mehr drin gewesen. Den dritten Band spare ich mir!

Short of the last ten percent of the story i would have given three stars. Despite the long and uneventful cruising in space and information gathering i hoped the story would show some kind of clou or a crashing action sequence at the end. But it continued the same way as before and captain Jackson remained a lame hero with minimal action and battle tactics you had a hard time to follow. The end was even more pointless and looked like a rushed and ridiculous idea to bring a quick solution and introduce some "fantastic" new players for the next sequel. The first book was a good start to a promising series but this sequel stopped my expectations in its tracks.

Obwohl das Buch mich nicht so sehr gepackt hat wie der Vorgänger, kann es sich doch sehr wohl sehen lassen. Ein aufregendes Weltraumabenteuer mit lebensechten Figuren und schönem Plot.Es lohnt sich!