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Book Details Title: Gunpowder & Embers (1) (Last Judgement’s Fire) Author: Kacey Ezell,Christopher L. Smith Number of pages: Publisher: Baen (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1982124288 Rating: 4,2     86 reviews

Book Description About the Author John Ringo brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies in print. The series contains A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell’s Faire, and Eye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, A Deeper Blue, and, with Ryan Sear, Tiger by the Tail). His techno-thriller The Last Centurion was also a national bestseller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series: Into the Looking Glass, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, and Claws That Catch, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few. There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series: The Hero, written with Michael Z. Williamson, Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad, all written with Tom Kratman, and the New York Times bestseller Cally’s War and its sequels Sister Time and Honor of the Clan, all with Julie Cochrane. His science-based zombie apocalypse Black Tide Rising series includes Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope and Strands of Sorrow. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction. Read more Customers Review: When I buy a post-apocalyptic science fiction/fantasy book, I do so knowing that I will have to suspend my disbelief. I am ok with that, as long as this suspension of disbelief is semi-believable and advances the plot, story, or drives character development.A rift opens between worlds/timelines/dimensions? Check. I’m ok with that.Dragons and spider ants come pouring through the rift? Check. Still onboard. This is sounding pretty cool.These fantastical beasts, directly and indirectly, lead to the fracture and collapse of society? Check. Interesting enough premise, I want to know more!As the world fractures, people begin worshiping these creatures or try to tame them? That’s probably the most believable thing on this list.Out of the chaos, a hero arises, a young naive farmboy…seen that a few times before, but fish out of water stories always have a great deal of potential.The United States military in less than a generation goes from a well trained and disciplined organization sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America to a well trained and disciplined death cult sworn to neutrality and that worships Mikhail Kalashnikov, John Moses Browning, and Chuck Norris?That is where this book loses me.Its not that that couldn’t happen. Its that it couldn’t happen over the short timeline the authors made it happen in. Keeping in mind the book makes no discussion about that happening, its set after that has already happened. There is no discussion of how, or why. It just is…Which is a pity, because that would have been a heck of a story told over a long enough timeline.So that’s one star off for me.The book loses the second star because way too many fascinating characters are introduced, developed, and then killed just to introduce additional challenges for the protagonists. Without getting too spoilerific, the heroes are on a boat full of interesting people. So, of course, the boat gets attacked by pirates (no mention of pirates before the attack)…and all the interesting people die just so the heroes spend a couple of pages cold, wet, and miserable while the bad guys close the gap…So why three stars and not zero?There are things that I absolutely loved about this book. With the exception of the “drunk”, the characters in the story evolve over the course of their journey. Sometimes it felt forced, but largely it felt natural. You understood why the characters acted as they did. You saw their journey and how and why they changed. Huge fan of that.The world-building was great (other than the military becoming a meme worshiping death cult) and again very logical. You could see, without squinting too hard, why the pockets of civilization behaved as they did.It was well written. The style is consistent, which is hard to pull off when multiple authors are contributing, but these three made it feel pretty seamless. A note about that, this does not feel or read like a John Ringo book. The consistency of style is not his style. It feels like a John Ringo story, it just doesn’t feel like it was written by him. I’m about 3/4 of the way through this book. Put others aside to read a new John Ringo book. He’s been at the top of my list for some time now. An automatic buy, read RIGHT NOW, no thinking involved.The story set up is good. Should be a nice universe to write in/about.But the “voice” of the author isn’t John Ringo. Or at least it isn’t the John Ringo I’ve read and enjoyed for years now.I’m not sure how much and in what area John contributed to this book but is certainly doesn’t read like he wrote it himself.After the two recent collaborations he published with Mike Massa ( which also unfortunately also don’t read as vintage Ringo ) and now this one I’ve got to seriously consider any future books that don’t come out under his name alone.This book is kind of OK but not what I expected. Not talking plot here. Only talking about the way the words string together.As a previous reviewer said it’s a $2.99 book, not more.I buy and read books not only for the plot but for the style. And of the two style is more important to me.I certainly hope John Ringo isn’t going down the trail that others have taken and putting his name on stuff just for a paycheck. Wouldn’t think he needs it by now but … This is going to be a bit different from my normal review.First the high points, this story is a straight up hero’s journey and it is very well executed! All of the required elements are there and they are very well crafted. The charterers created have depth and they are accessible and easy to really get interested in. It doesn’t take long to have the story just pulling you right along.Also I find the world that they have built for this story to be captivating. I think that it has tremendous potential and can see a lot of really great stories. I would love to see this come to fruition.I was an alpha reader for this book, so I’ve read it three times by they time it hit the shelf, so I’ve been looking forward to this book hitting the street so I could talk about it. I really hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.And, yes, in point of fact, Jay does know everyone worth knowing….. 😉 Ringo and his pals have generated a classic quest story with great, vivid and believable characters. We have a dramatic catastrophe that demolishes the world as we know it. Terrible die off, now low population and we can’t make use of electricity. Oh, the electricity eating giant ants that came through a rift, in reality, come at once and in strength at the first flick of a switch. But wait, there’s more! Some sort of flying reptiles came through too. The flyers and ants can easily defeat humans one on one but lucky for us the flyers also like to kill the ants. And a bunch of other stuff.But what we care about in this well developed imaginary world are the people. In the quest, we have a farm kid, a drunk, a martial arts cultist, a dragon tamer and an escapee from the ant hive. Along the way, we also encounter other interesting characters. They are interesting and engaging enough for us to care about them. This is a story about people, not a story about weird events.We like stories about interesting people doing interesting stuff. I liked this one. Read it in two days. I wanted to like the book. I found myself skipping through parts of the book that just bored me. Maybe there is too much emphasis on the mundane?I think the authors found crossing a broken bridge to be much more frightening in their heads.I read this for the Ringo. Im not quite sure who wrote what, my feeling is biased that all the good parts are Ringo based.Worth $2.99….. but not the current price.