Triumphant: The Genesis Fleet, Book 3

I very much enjoyed this story, terrific prequel series to The Lost Fleet books. However, I find myself agreeing with some other reviewers that this has become repetitive and formulaic for those of us who have read all of the Fleet books. The navigational explanations, distance and speed and it’s effects on communications and travel time, the convenient happy circumstance that bails the protagonists out of seemingly impossible situations—it’s a great series, by all means, read them all if you haven’t, they are great stories, and as a military veteran myself, I like the leadership lessons and struggles. But I think maybe it’s time to give this series a rest?I also thoroughly enjoyed the Pillars of Reality series, completely different genre, proving Mr. Campbell’s rich creative talents. I enjoyed his other space series, as well, especially the Paul Sinclair books. Might I be so bold as to suggest (selfishly, because I really like them) going back to The Lost Stars books? I’m really interested to see how those develop and they are different enough from the Fleet books (though spun off from them) to make me anxious for the next installment. It’s been 3 years since the last, I think, and while a parallel storyline to the Fleet stories, it would be, perhaps, a nice way to segue back into that storyline with the aliens?Anyway, I loved the book, hence the 4 stars, but like others, I’ve had my fill for a while, hence not 5 stars. But every bit as enjoyable, exciting, and relatable as the earlier books, bravo, Mr. Campbell!

Jack Campbell through the Lost Fleet Series, and now this prequel series has become one of my favorite sci fi/space opera authors. He always manages to balance real science, real military strategy, with a good story and characters that are very likable.

Good story and enjoyable read. A few minor mistakes like a character being referred to by a higher rank a few pages befor being promoted. But good writing.

The thing that frustrates me the most about space opera’s is author’s who write military novels that know nothing about the military! If this is you too, you will enjoy these books. The author is an excellent writer who’s military background creates a story that is believable and entertaining.

Very few writers have the ability to make me stop reading while I laugh like Jack Campbell does. Not just this book but his others as well!

Story was a great ending to how the Gearys started. Gave a lot of backstory to how the alliance was founded and just fun to read.

As I progressed through this three book series , I asked myself if there would be another three book series before the John Geary days. The epilogue was perfect! To the honor of our ancestors.

This is the third and I presume final book in Campbell’s “Genesis Fleet” series, giving a pre-history of what came between the human discovery of Jump Space and the formation of the Alliance that undergirded the “Lost Fleet” novels and their successors. The POV jumps around a lot, some-times using three or more in a single short chapter. Still, it’s good space opera and I quite enjoyed it.

Whilst I enjoy the books the naming of the Genesis Fleet series on Kindle has been a bit of a train wreck!Of the three released books none of them have any consistency in the naming they appear with on Kindle.The Genesis Fleet - VanguardThe Genesis Fleet: Ascendant (Book 2)The Genesis FleetYep this book only gives the series name and doesn't even give it's own name!I'm giving 4 stars as the story is good but the above really needs to be addressed, (and for long running series having a book number show up in the title would be very useful ... There has been times when I've had to resort to Wikipedia to work out what's next!)

Third and final novel in the 'Genesis Fleet' series of military science fiction novels. This is not a jumping on point for the trilogy, so you should start with 'The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard', if needs be.And these being a prequel to 'The lost Fleet' series. It will help to have familiarity with that series, which began with 'The Lost Fleet: Dauntless' to get the most from this one.But if you've read all these books already, and know all that, read on.This one runs for three hundred and eighty four pages. It has fifteen chapters. An epilogue. And it brings the trilogy to a complete close.The world of Glenlyon is under attack once again. This time it's orbital facility is in trouble. Whilst Rob Geary commands the space battle against the attacks, Mele Darcy and her marines fight for the station.Meanwhile fighting still continues on the world of Kosatka, where Carmen is in the thick of it. And Lochan is off elsewhere trying to persuade other worlds to get involved. An alliance of forces might be the only hope any of them have for survival..Credit to the writer. Because you know what you're going to get from these books: Realistic space combat. Characters with moral dilemmas to ponder and military people having as much as they hate it to play politics. A pretty decent depiction of the effect hand to hand combat will have on people. And more. But even so, he does manage to do a good job each time.There's just some good storytelling going on here. It does take about a quarter of the book to really get going and settle down, but once it does it becomes a real page turner. The action does focus a bit more on two of the four leads early on, before switching to the others in the second. But, even though this being a prequel means you know how it will end, it's still an interesting read seeing it get there. Because it's very good at the political side of it. As very different worlds have trust issues and considerations a plenty to get into.There's some nice foreshadowing at the end of the final chapter also.And the epilogue is a superb and delightful surprise, which does manage to round off the trilogy successfully in a very pleasing way.A good read from a reliable writer who is good at producing such. And whatever he does next, as it doesn't appear to be the end of this fictional universe, I want to read it.

While mostly volunteer forces of citizens soldiers and marines fight to protect their communities and vital installations from a greedy and ruthless enemy, an untrained volunteer diplomat has to navigate interplanetary politics and negotiate an alliance capable of giving the exhausted fighters the reinforcements they need.For the marines, fighting to deny the enemy the use of a facility until help arrives, the imminent arrival of the help creates an unexpected deadline for them to win the fight by their own efforts, or the death toll will be unacceptably high.Covers many things: creating an alliance is only the first step: next is getting victims of aggression to trust the alliance, and then there's the matter of making sure that the alliance does not itself become a threat to freedom and its more powerful members respect the less powerful.In many ways a diplomatic thriller as well as a space-combat one.

I have greatly enjoyed much of the earlier output of Jack Cambell, however, this may be the nail in the coffin. The story is slow and I didn't really care what happened to the charcacters about a third of the way into the book. This would be OK if I was desparate for something to read, but there are much better books out there. Sorry.

If you have been following the lost fleet series this provides additional background, as a stand alone story it's not as strong.So recommended if you have the background in placeIn summary I enjoyed it but have read everything in the series :-)