Joshua's Reviews > Earth Rising

A nice cap on a quick trilogy by Daniel Arenson, it explores both the mass survival aspects of a large scale "us v. them" war, as well as how destructive even losing 1 or 2 percent of a species total population can be. It also touches on how personal feelings interact with that survival aspect, reluctance to fight versus needing to fight. The only real negatives I could find were how predictable secondary characters became killed and the "Gears of War" (or really, any video game) quality the final war scenes took on as well as the Scooby Doo villain reveal near the end (not sure how it could have been handled better but I feel it could of be done differently; it feels like an outright smack and continuation rather than something that should have been subtle and hinted at during the story... maybe it was and I needed the smack).

Overall, the Earthrise series is a great weekend trilogy read and definitely helped satisfy my appetite between releases of other books.