The Burning World – Puts this series back on track.

The Burning World.
A Learning Experience, #8.
By Christopher G. Nuttall.
My rating ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ out of 5 stars.

The Belosi saved the human race. Now, we’re going to return the favour.

Fifty years ago, a human covert operations team – The Firelighters – raided Belosi, a world held in bondage by the alien Tichck, and rescued thousands of Belosi from slavery, taking them into space to form the core of a future liberation force. Since then, a cloud of secrecy has descended over Belos, with no word of the fate of the trapped Belosi allowed to escape the system. Now, with the Tokomak War over and the Galactics in disarray, the Solar Union intends to honour its promises to the exiled Belosi, by supporting their fleet in a bid to reclaim their stolen homeworld.

But the Tichck have plans of their own, and with the former masters of the universe no longer a threat, they can finally make their own play for supreme power.

The first war is over. The second is about to begin.

It has been a while since I read a book from Christopher Nuttall. He is quite high on my list of favorite authors but he also have a list of very long running book series and I guess a certain fatigue has set in as always when a series goes on for (too) long.

This series I have liked very much except for the last book which “only” got a three star rating from me.

This book puts the series back on track though.

It is the same good writing as in all of this authors books (even the ones I do not like for various other reasons).

Nice characters, a well developed story, good action and plausible science fiction, military tactics and world building in general.

Having said that I still liked this series more in the beginning when they were more sticking it to the useless, incompetent and corrupt nations and politicians of Earth.

Now the series have evolved into what is more a regular military science fiction and space opera.

This book appears to start a new story arc in the universe of the series. The Solar Union won the first war against the Tokamaks and the Galactics.

But the Tokamaks where mere pawns in the galactic game of chess and it is time for the second war for survival for the Solar Union.

This book tells the story of how the Solar Union prepares the stage for that, and the first shots are fired.

Unfortunately, despite the premise in the first books, where the humans that broke of from Earth set out to create a nation devoid of big governments and dumbass politicians, these vermin always find a way to infiltrate and ruin things. I really hope that the author contains that crap.

Otherwise, a very enjoyable book.