Review: Aftershocks

Aftershocks by Marko Kloos
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 It's not Frontlines, but it's still pretty good

I know Marko Kloos by his Frontlines series, which has become one of my favorite military sci-fi to listen to. Knowing how great that series was, I dived into The Palladium Wars as soon as I got the chance. First, let me say other than being in the same type of military sci-fi genre, the two series couldn't be more different (but they are both excellent!). While Frontlines was a very personal story told from the first-person perspective of a soldier, The Palladium wars rotates between the point of view characters in each chapter, with each character being far separated from the others in this first book. I'm going to assume the series will follow the same formula usually used by this POV style and eventually the POV characters will be pushed together as either friends or foes as their individual storylines cross. I'm bringing up these points because much like other series that follow this formula, the first book is meant to set up the plot so that it can start moving into the first story arc and introducing the cast of POV characters. Therefore, it IS a bit slow -- but the world that is being set up is amazingly complex and detailed, the writing is excellent, and so far the plot is intriguing.

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