Book Review – Undying Mecenaries series

I listened to all the audiobooks of this series and provide you with a review. I enjoyed the books enough that I purchased the whole series.

The story of McGill is interesting and each of the book advances the story. The books are formulaic with a different ‘enemy’ or in this case planet in each of the books.

I felt the books was more of a fantasy with sci fi elements mixed in.

Some thoughts:

• One of the main themes of the book is the protaganist and his relationship with women. He is a ‘ladies’man we are told and they just can’t keep it to themselves. Expect a lot of sexual refernces and descriptions of how a particular girl was cute. I suspect this is for the mostly male readers…
• The book is all from the point of view of McGill with little backstory of other characters. Graves – what is his motivations? What drives a man to serve for hundreds of years
• If you enjoy sci-fi where you see the effects of alien technology on human society. This is not the book for you. Seems life is the same but with better alien technology. We do not see the effect of external threats and presumably increasing militarisation
• Dust world was an interesting book – the concept of a colony cut off from the rest of humanity and allowed to develop.

In summary, i compare this series to recent sci-fi books (the expanse series) and find very large differences in writing. The expanse provides development of other characters and also includes political machinations.