Book 6), Final Battle (In Her Name

This "last" novel in the series is remarkable. Although I was saddened at leaving reza behind and coming to the end, it was done in the best way.

How about a novel about the kreelans after the change?

This book was tremendous. While you can probably guess at the outcome, the joy is truly in how you get there. Mr. Hicks does an outstanding job of leading you through the journey that Reza and his friends (or accomplices, depending on your perspective) embark upon.

The program for reviewing this book and series requires twenty words that many is no needed. I purchases the first trilogy early last week on book at a time read the book in to days purchased the secondly trilogy one at a time read them all in two more day. Good books read them all

I've read this trilogy several times and will mostly likely read it several more. I can't recommend it enough. It epitomizes space opera in its finest. I'd love to see it as a series of movies, while knowing no one can do it justice. Read them you won't regret it

In Her Name series explores alien species contact and the possibility that the human species is the one with the monstrous culture. 45years if science fiction passion has once again been rewarded. Michael R. Hicks takes all the speculated horrors of first contact and delivers them only to twist them into a nightmare of humanities cultural frailities. More please!

Michael Hicks finished off this trilogy in the only way it could. Some have said the bad guys in this part are way over the top, but I don't think so. They don't just consider Reza a traitor they consider all of his friends as traitors to humanity and it was the Kreelans who attacked humans. Naturally they're going to be those that exact brutal revenge for this. There are also complaints about the ending way Keel Tath killed using bolts of lightning from her hands. Again, this is an ancient alien species and Hicks has done a masterful job of describing it to us.

It did seem a bit rushed in places and there were other places where it just didn't seem plausible. Reza is a priest with all sorts of abilities yet he seems to be a step behind most of the time.

That said it's still worthy of five stars.

Sacha

The Redemption Trilogy turned out to be an exciting story and held me captive until the end. I wasn't so sure about it when I started the first book. It went in a totally unexpected direction. Now I want to read all the other related books as well.

Why oh Why do authors insist on having their villains be so over-the-top that they are completely unbelievable.

Why oh why do authors try to force endings even if they have to resort to deus ex machina twists to get the characters where they want to be

Why oh why do authors try to write trilogys when they don't have enough of an idea to justify it.

This book is a great example of all 3 of my complaints. And after the first book, it was a horrible disappointment.

Michael clearly didn't have enough of an idea to write a full book. He resorts to using 2 villains who are so scheming and twisted that I couldn't even dislike them. They were just unreal to me and their machinations drove me out of the narrative flow again and again. The book became painful to read whenever they appeared.

the fact that they manage to pull of a perfect assassination plot and coup with no one noticing in a world that supposedly is more advanced than Earth only increased my hatred of the narrative. It seems that a lot of authors like to believe that not one journalist can start an investigation into such antics early enough to expose it. After the last 10 years where we have seen far too many open scandals involving government malfeasance I just can't get into that plot anymore.

The story also lacked any character development again. There is a bit of a twist in revealing the "true identity" of one character, but it ends up being both rather meaningless and again, over-the-top and missing any real pop. Mistaken identity and man in iron mask stories make sense in pre-industrial stories, but not in a post-modern space opera where its assumed that modern medicine would have revealed the deceoption very fast, especially with billions on the line. It jsut rang false to me.

I know that I'm a cynic about some plot lines and that definitely contributed to my dislike of this story, but its also a thread-bare plot forced to move forward to a completely unnecessary conclusion. This story added nothing to the universe and less to the characters. It seemed set up just to fulfill the writer's need to have a specific event happen allowing him to "evolve" his characters.

Disappointing on many levels. Read book 1 and maybe book 2, avoid this one.

Having read the previous books in this series, mainly because I wanted to see how it all came out, I ended up rather disappointed in the resolution. The prose reads easily, and the author succeeds in creating characters that you end up caring about. But the many questions that seem to beg for answers throughout this series (for example, why would the alien species' first empress curse her people with such a negative and unproductive mode of existence, and when she returns, would not she have some justification or regret over this decision made in anger millennia ago?) don't get answered. The final resolution could be summed up as suddenly, magically, the central characters who don't die are either whisked off to live happily ever after in some undescribed realm or live happily ever after here. I found it a very superficial ending for a series that had the potential to be much more interesting. It's almost as if the author successfully posed this very intriguing universe, but then couldn't come with any good explanations for why it is the way it is, so he just bleeped over it and ended the series. If you've read the previous books, it's worth going ahead and reading this one, but don't expect some big revelation or explanation.

This series rocks. It is classic space opera with old time Samurai accents. Excellent read from start to finish. I was especially impressed with the insight into the political process on the human side and the dedication on the alien side.

I have read the complete series twice and would recommend it to anyone that wants to read something that will take hold of you and transport you to another world. Plan on losing sleep - Morene's husband

I would have liked the author to continue writing the series, and as it were, there will be no more books past this one chronologically. I understand though that some series just get out of hand, and I believe he wanted to prevent that from happening. Either way, it was a great series, and I'm sad to see it end.

I always enjoy Michael R Hicks books. Every time I finish one of the books, and can hardly wait to start on the next one of the trilogies. He is very creative, with fast moving plots and unexpected turns. Good reading!!