The Saints of Salvation

Salvation Sequence #3

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The Saints of Salvation (EBook, 2020, Del Rey)

eBook, 516 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 2020 by Del Rey.

ASIN:
B082S391KF
4 stars (1 review)

Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than the aliens may have expected. Will a strategy millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are the aliens truly hiding in their most deeply protected stronghold?

5 editions

Enjoyable again, but a bit confusing

4 stars

Without spoilers, there's a lot of stuff happening in a lot of different times, but those times are flowing at different speed relatively to each other so the stuff that starts earlier finishes later. And, as opposed to the the first book with locations like "this space habitat" or "that bit of London" it's "in this ship, which is between these places" and I found it very hard to keep apart.

But again I also read the book at 4am, instead of failing to sleep, so that didn't help. The trilogy is concluded, but there are two hooks left open to tug on later.

I also really can't work out whether the author wants us to like billionaire autocrats or not. It very much feels like you're supposed to, in the same way that classic fantasy has "kings, what a good idea" through it, as they're all wise and fearless …

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • English literature
  • Fiction, action & adventure
  • Fiction, science fiction, space exploration
  • Fiction, science fiction, space opera