Attack of Shadows (Galaxy's Edge Book 4) Kindle Edition

Well written, intense, nonstop action, this book has all the marks of a fantastic war movie. However, it left me feeling unfulfilled for reasons that had nothing to do with the writing.Readers of the first three: The authors jump around constantly in this novel and at first this was jarring, but it came to make perfect sense. The authors are showing multiple perspectives of two different sides in a war, and it eventually works. You don't feel like either side is one monolithic mass of good or evil, and by the end you aren't sure whom to root for. The characters feel human in the short time we get to spend with each one of them, and it works.The problem for me was that we never got to spend enough time watching characters develop. These authors are at their best when we get to spend the whole book, or even multiple books, helping us come to know and love a small cast of genuine people. This book hints at that multiple times with some really interesting characters I'd love to follow for a novel or two. Because of the large cast and the jumping around, I just didn't get my fix.About halfway through this book I realized: the war itself is the main character, with different views shaping out the character of the war. Taken that way, this writing decision makes sense.This is one of those books mid-series where everything explodes and all the suspense tears wide open. It was enjoyable, but what pulls me through a novel is getting to know the characters deeper and deeper. I look forward to seeing what the actual characters of the series think and feel of this situation, and watch them react. The authors are masters there, and I hope for a return to that.Good book, but the perspective (while probably necessary to tell this particular story) didn't have that emotional punch for me. Now that the war has started, gimme my plucky little band again so I can go back to crying over Prisma's backstory.

The only way I could get through reading this book was by looking at it as a fantasy book with sprinkles of science.Sounds in a vacuum? Being able to hear ships exploding through a vacuum and the double hull of a ship? Trees and a tree line on a moon with no/very little atmosphere?The authors even tried to justify being able to hear in a vacuum by stating that we could hear stars. Exactly how well did they do in science in school?There were parts in the book where the timeline seemed to be completely all over the place.If you could blow up the weapon instead of letting it fall into enemy hands, you saw that the enemy was not going to you any quarter and that the enemy had already taken out a company of elite troops, 2 deadly mechs and high powered blasters, what in the universe would make you think that you could stand up to the enemy with hand guns instead of just blowing the weapon up?There are so many ridiculous plot holes in this book, that it may as well be written in the 70’s or 80’s when people were less into science and we had talking cars.I might pick up the next book just to see how far this fantasy goes.“Hail the Emperor”. Star Wars anyone?

First let me say the book was well written. Virtually the entire book is one long action space battle scene. While normally that’s just what I’m looking for this was not for me. On one side of the battle are the forces of the Republic, a galaxy wide civilization run by a totally corrupt government only interested in maintaining power. On the other side is a rebel force of mixed pirates and ex-republic military led by an evil immortal sorcerer who want to destroy everything he has to to rebuild the galaxy in his image AKA the Emperor from Star Wars. The problem for me is that the majority of the book is written from the viewpoint of the attacking rebel fleet, the only character from that fleet that was even remotely interesting was a character from the books 1&3 that I really liked, but now he’s working for the bad guy and I’m no longer interested. This series has become about a war that both sides should lose. The only good guys are the loyal republic fleet trying to hold back the darkness, but they are working for a corrupt and powerful government. Many of the bad guys truly think they are doing the right think overthrowing an evil government, but as mentioned above are working for an evil want to be dictator. Books one and two were great, clear cut good guys and bad guys, book 3 brought back characters from the first book but also introduced a whole undercover spy doing horrible things under orders storyline that I detested. I’ve skipped so much of the last two books I’ve probably only read just over a single books worth of pages. If you don’t care about clear cut lines between the good guys and bad guys you might like this. I certainly didn’t.

4 books in each with their own little annoyance that I let me as the underlying story was worth the distraction. Unfortunately no more. Will not be getting book 5, this book was just dire on my opinion.If you could take odd snipers from star wars and call it something else, this would have been it. The whole book lacked any fluidity, the characters you should care about, I didn't, all I wanted to do was get to the end and call it a dayFirst 3 in the series were barrable, just. 4 is just poor. Not puttimg more money onto 5

So far the worst of the series, it’s just a Star Wars, Goth Sulus in Black armour!?, like Darth Vader, pilots with droids that make noises etc, hope next one gets better.

I love this series of booksIt's a easy reading fast paced adventure with good characters and well written which makes it easy for you to imagine the story and its surroundings

Interesting and good read

This book hits the ground running and doesn't stop. It's an invasion story complete with infiltration units, political betrayal on a staggering scale, fleet actions, desperate dogfights, orbital assaults on a fortified moon equipped with a truly massive gun and characters from both sides who are sympathetic. The writing style is straightforward, a lot of details such as character motivation and setting are imparted in just a few paragraphs leaving us with one of the best SF stories I can remember reading. The Republic is unbelievably corrupt and deserves to fall but is the cure worse than the disease? Do yourself a favour and start reading this series. The release schedule for this series is also impressive.