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I really enjoyed John Ringo's Council War Series. It was a very creative and interesting universe in which to set a story line. That made this book a bit of a disappointment. It was nowhere near as enjoyable and the previous 3 books.

The council ruling earth is still divided into warring factions. Both sides critically need energy and think it might be obtained by capturing an automated spaceship bring back fuel from the outer solar system. Both sides plan a mission. One side fights dirty. Both have bits of high tech to leven out a basically feudal society.

This book could have been much more. I hope that future installments will live up to the potential. This one did not.


Tags : East of the Sun and West of the Moon [John Ringo] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan Trevante have been assigned the mission to capture the spaceship that supplies the fuel for the whole world. Given that Herzer vaguely thinks orbital decay is something having to do with teeth it should be . . . interesting. With all the usual combat expected in a John Ringo novel,John Ringo,East of the Sun and West of the Moon,Baen,1416520597,FIC028000,Science Fiction - Action & Adventure,Science Fiction - General,Science Fiction - Space Opera,Human-alien encounters,Human-computer interaction,Human-computer interaction;Fiction.,Power resources,Power resources;Fiction.,Space warfare,Space warfare;Fiction.,War stories,AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY,FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction General,FICTION Science Fiction Space Opera,Fiction,Fiction-Science Fiction,FictionScience Fiction - Space Opera,GENERAL,General Adult,Monograph Series, any,Science Fiction,United States,Young Adult Fiction

East of the Sun and West of the Moon John Ringo 9781416520597 Books Reviews

This book is horrible. This is nothing but a short story that is full of page fillers. I buy everything that ringo puts out before its on the stands and have supported him on his bad ghost reviews but this book is bad. This advances nothing in the series at all except killing off one of the evil sides keyholders. One of the big questions in the previous book hasnt been touched what of the elf queens response to the evils side messing with elf geense (growing elf deomonds) Lost is magic that kept the series interesting like 1. the great jokes, 2. the chaotic rabbit 3. the wood elf girl. The first book in the series was a great refreshing taste. But the quality of each preceding book has dwindled. John you need to go back to David Weber and ask him how he does it. His last book "At all Costs" was fantastic. Im sorry all your co-authored books are great though.
Grandson loves these books.
Often books in the middle of a series drag on and don't advance our knowledge of the central characters. John Ringo spares us that with this fast, fun read.

The book description gives a reasonable overview of the plot, so I won't reiterate here. However, it calls the relationship between Herzer and Megan bizarre. NOT

It would be highly unusual for a vicitm of rape and abuse like Megan to easily enter another intimate relationship. It can take years and lots of therapy for rape victims to reestablish physical relationships. Ringo's description of Herzer's patience and support helps make Herzer a more well rounded character. His self-discipline when faced with temptation speaks for his comittment to Megan.

I am a civilian, so I take a lot of Ringo's military planning and battles as given, but I saw some clever use of physics in the battle scenes.

There is also much humor in the book. I really enjoyed the interaction between three of the "bad guys" at the end.

The book does a good job of enhancing our knowledge of Megan and Herzer. It left me with several questions about which I want to know the answer. I hope Ringo changes his mind about writing the next installment.

I think most fans of the series will enjoy this one.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2006) is the fourth SF novel of the Council War series, following Against the Tide. In the previous volume, Blood Lords pulled down the portals in the New Destiny forward base before Orc reinforcements arrived. Brother Conner was attacked by Azure, the house lion, and Rachael performed a little surgery. Herzer Herrick was attacked by a Changed Elf, but was rescued by Bast.

In this novel, Sub-leader Grath commands his Orcs to raise up the portal, but they cannot lift the heavy thing higher than knee level. Private Tur-uck tries another approach, slipping under the doorway and rising up into the Orc assembly area. He then reports the situation to a Lesser Master.

When Lord Chansa appears, Tur-uck provides a more complete report to the True Lord. Unfortunately, the enemy has already overrun the forward base, but Lord Chansa appreciates Tur-uck's information and initiative. He immediately promotes the Orc to sub-leader.

Later, the United Free States loses the entire Icarus mission team to New Destiny infiltrators. Herzer is designated as the commander of new Icarus assault team and then learns that Megan Travante is coming along. Herzer has a very bad feeling about the mission.

Evan Mayle was an engineering consultant for the Icarus mission, but wasn't in the overran training facility. Luckily, he is well aware of the basic plan for the mission and conveys this information to Herzer. However, the technical details died with the original team. Now Herzer has to select replacements for these specialists from the few people whose records are available to them.

For security reasons, they can't exactly place advertisements in the papers. Herzer gets June Lasker from Raven's Mill as personnel director for the new team. Except for a few UFS documents, the records that June brings with her are the primary source for selecting the new team. Naturally, some candidates are well known to Herzer, although he usually has not been aware of their pre-war talents.

Herzer and June select a number of pilots, engineers and warriors for the team, including Courtney Boehlke. Since Courtney is an old friend, the wife of another old friend and staying in Washan on business, Herzer invites her to his home to ask her to join the mission. But after ND assassins attack the house and kill Ashley, Herzer transfers all further operations to the Icarus training facility.

In this story, Herzer and Megan decide on a division of authority, with Herzer in charge of the operation itself and Megan responsible for strategic decisions. Herzer works the team until they are exhausted, then ends the training with a blowout party, leaving time for rest and recuperation. They dress out in the new spacesuits, load up their equipment and head for the Icarus shuttle landing sites.

The Icarus mission is aimed at hijacking as much as possible of the reactor fuel being brought to Earth by the Icarus, a supertanker from the planet Jupiter. Of course, New Destiny is aware of their plans and intends to thwart their mission. The UFS team has to do something unexpected, for ND is not known for their adaptability. Herzer does everything he can to defeat enemy espionage and hopes that his plan will not be countered by enemy cunning.

UFS intelligence suspects that the ND mission will be led by Key-Holder Reyes. Unknown to the UFS, however, the ND forces will include Tur-uck -- now an Orc leader -- and the Changed Elf Tragack. The mission will be more difficult than even Herzer believes.

Highly recommended for Ringo fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of high technology, fantastic creatures and human perversity.

-Arthur W. Jordin
The book I mean. I absolutely love this series and was immensely looking forward to reading this book. When I got it, I was shocked at how thin (in pages) it was. This is usually not a hang-up with me. I almost never check the amount of pages a book has. Especially with one of my favorite authors. This book was 320 pages, his other books in this series were up over 420-540 pages.

So what about the story? While the concept for the storyline was very cool, the writing and plot development could have been flushed out a lot more. A lot. There is a lot of time spent trying to develop Megan and her harem posse. Amusing, but too much frill without the meat of a good story. This book boils down to one plot line, the good guys going to get the ship. So much opportunity for more. I love Ringo, but man, his editor screwed up here, he/she should have thumped Ringo on the head before publishing this book.

To be completely honest, this feels like something thrown together to meet a deadline. So, even though I enjoyed the book, it was just good. It could have been and should have been great, just like all the previous books in this series.
I really enjoyed John Ringo's Council War Series. It was a very creative and interesting universe in which to set a story line. That made this book a bit of a disappointment. It was nowhere near as enjoyable and the previous 3 books.

The council ruling earth is still divided into warring factions. Both sides critically need energy and think it might be obtained by capturing an automated spaceship bring back fuel from the outer solar system. Both sides plan a mission. One side fights dirty. Both have bits of high tech to leven out a basically feudal society.

This book could have been much more. I hope that future installments will live up to the potential. This one did not.