Hardship (Theirs Not to Reason Why, #4)

by Jean Johnson

Ebook, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Ace, Kindle Edition, 322 pages

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:It began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after she�??s gone. Now Jean Johnson presents the long-awaited epic conclusion to her national bestselling military science fiction series�?�   Demoralized, their ship destroyed, Ia�??s Damned must fight their way out of a planet-bound blockade and back into space.  But there is more happening here on Dabin than meets even Ia�??s inner eye.   Some of the Feyori, energy-based beings of vast power and arrogance, are moving to block her efforts under the direction of her counter-faction foe, Miklinn. The Terran Army Division stationed on Dabin is not cooperating with her battle plans. Events are not happening as Ia has foreseen, and too many people are now in grave danger, thanks to alien Meddling.   All these hardships are threatening to derail Ia�??s carefully laid plans. The Meddlers, however, have made one fatal mistake:   They�??re just makin… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member zjakkelien
I still love this series. I can see it's not perfect: whenever the main character Ia has to explain something to her superiors, it tends to get a bit preachy, and Ia herself is perhaps a little too perfect and powerful. On the other hand, it is needed, for she is faced with a tremendous task, and
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in this book, things don't go as perfectly as they have in the previous ones (with the exception of the time when one of her soldiers shoots someone crucial for the future).
And there is no doubt about it: Ia is exceptionally competent, these books are low on romance (this part had about none), and Ia is not the only female a) in the military who is b) competent and c) holds a position of power.

When I bought this book, I already expected that the last part of the series had been split in two, since the book was not quite as thick as the previous ones. I was right, the book had gotten too thick to be one book. I'll have to wait to get the last book, and I'm really curious to see how Jean Johnson will wrap this up, for it seems to me even Ia's story still has a long way to go: she still has to win the Salik war, let only the war with the Greys. And then there are the things that are still to happen after her death: the end of the universe is not due for another 300 years, after all. So I'm hoping hard that there will be more books. First, more on Ia, and then more on the time after that.
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
The first half of the last book (which is why it's not Hellfire followed by Damnation) - it got too big and had to be split. This one is mostly ground-based war, not space - which is kind of a side issue and kind of not. Ia mostly deals with the meddling of the Feyori, as they stick their noses
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into the conduct of the war and she catches them at it. She's time-blind, in an odd way, through vast amounts of the book - that's one of the Feyori tricks. Her solution is truly odd, too.
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LibraryThing member WDBooks
Fast. Fun. Same as the rest of the series.

Original publication date

2014
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