Steven Bragg's Reviews > Counterstrike

This turned out to be an average finish to the series. On the plus side, the author spends a fair amount of time discussing the inner workings of a ship of war, which makes you feel that you are right in the middle of the action. However, the ending is quite flat, where there is a great buildup, and then - poof! - the enemy is dead without much of a struggle. There is also the barest attempt at a romance that doesn't work at all. The author should have either kept it out, or devoted more than two pages to it. And finally, it turns out that the entire series hinges on using alien technology, rather than because the characters were brilliant and clever. In all, a bit of a dud.