The Hot Gate (Troy Rising)

Good story line and is a classic 'space opera' novel. Has some good ideas and nice writing. I like that the focus of his stories is told from different character's view points. Definitely a good read

A bit too much cultural politicking compared to the previous volumes. Personally, I'm tired of the "warrior woman" archtype that seems to be newly ubiquitous in an attempt to garner more female readership. Is this really Ringo writing this? I guess no one is immune to PC conformity.

Like Reading A Kids Cartoon

The book is not very well written in a good military fashion what so ever. It's more like reading up on a Saturday Morning Cartoon with a bunch of adult kids in command. The space battle are vague mostly due to the authors version of , ( it's the same thing , you know how it goes ) and the language used by the military officers in command is absurd. Seriously... in the heat of battle it's like listing to a bunch of kids in command who haven't learned how to talk proper. This book isn't very realistic unless you have the mind of a young teenager who hasn't grown up yet . I can't give it 2½ stars so I give it 3 stars , because it has the potential to get the younger audience interested in reading more science fiction books.

Ringo's military fantasy, whether modern or sci-fi, have always been at there best when the fighting is fast and furious. In The Hot Gate it felt like the first 3/4's of the book were devoted to describing the political challenges of trying to merge US Military ethos with other cultures and their quirks. It was interesting, but simply not as much fun as the combat/action segments of the book.

In reality, the Hot Gate is still an interesting book, but just understand that the combat side of the story is much smaller than what we would normally expect.

The Troy Rising series has been a great read. Lots of action and character interaction. Being prior service it was easy to identify with the scenarios. Highly recommended. More kudos for John Ringo, and I hope he writes more in this series.

These books are a great series, I actually had to steal the set back from a bunch of active duty Marines I work with. I will continue to look for John Ringo books and pass them around the Wounded Warrior Barracks at Walter Reed Hospital. SSG T.

I am a long-time Science Fiction reader, with over 2,200 volumes in my library. John Ringo is one of my favorite authors. I have all his stuff in hardcover. This is my 3rd or 4th time through this series, that's how good it is.

I hate stories that end, and then.............. The nine blank pages at the back of the book did not help either.

Where is it written that all new characters have to be Nuggets? Forcing half the book to be used up developing the character from before birth. Where is it graved in stone tablets, that all scientific data has to be set forth with proofs. They (the proofs) could be be in an addendum with subscripts as needed to reference. Oh well, it must be the pay by word, insisted on by the publishers that forces all those included explanations. Perhaps they do not include addendum's in the word count. Hmm!

I was waiting for the third installment what seemed like an eternity and it did not disappoint. This booked focused some on the enemy of the humans getting into their mindset and it seemed to really bring understanding to the species. I have yet to be disappointed by a book written by this author. The only complaint I have is that he is not publishing a book a week! Keep them coming and I recommend reading the first book and the rest in order! I also recommend reading all his books.

This book was a superb continuation of the story line. The reintegration of Tyler Vernon into the story line as a much more prominent role was also nice. The fight scenes were really well done. The character building in this was excellent. You definitely have to read the first two books to follow this one effectively. I enjoyed the Ranogra take on the humans.

I do have a couple of issues mainly with the ending of the book. To me it seems like most of the major questions weren't answered even in the epilog. I can think of 3 questions off the top of my head that don't get answered in a satisfactory way. While this does leave the series open to more books there is no timeline or expectation of another book at this time. Though I seriously doubt there wouldn't be a book 4 based on the end of this book it's still hard to wait for an unknown period of time. Since the major threads weren't all wrapped up.

"The Hot Gate" is the third installment in this excellent series. Of the three installments so far, it is the most maddening. The author seems to have an uncontrollable urge to divert a smart storyline into either a) useless/endless technobabble; or b) incredibly repetitive diatribes such as the problems with the South American recruits. Both of these tendencies border on the bizarre in terms of their magnitude. The author is capable of going off on these tangents for fifty pages or more, while the reader is trying to figure out what the storyline is actually supposed to be. It is incredibly frustrating because the basic storyline really is pretty compelling: Earth versus Aliens, and this theme should have resulted in a four or five star novel. Further, the characters come and go and seem to be forgotten only to randomly reappear in the storyline; Butch in particular. The main character, Tyler Vernon, seems to exist solely to expound chapter after chapter of technobabble. We know very little about his personal life; a fact that the author covers up by depriving him of one. Rarely (and I really mean this) has an otherwise decent author needed an editor more. This review may seem harsh, but I read a lot of military science fiction and I think that I have enough context to be fair in this evaluation.

This story ends with what amounts to a cliffhanger so we can look for Troy Rising Book 4 very soon I am sure. I hope that the author will tighten things up a bit and focus more on Earth's struggle against the Aliens. RJB

From the first chapter to epilogue, I was unable to stop laughing, wondering what next, to regretfully coming to the last page, last chapter, last word. Truly a great read, with the characters coming full circle.

The third book go Troy Rising didn't disappoint, it was another heck of a story by John Ringo! The story picks up where book 2 left off and continues the story of Mr. Vernon and his Space Command. Once agin the ranger fleet wants to take out earth and our solar system but has to get around the earths asteroid sized defense platform and its other brethren that have been created out of necessity. Space navel battles, marines doing boarding battles and crooked politicians sticking their crooked fingers in the mix, this book has it all. Well worth your time to read.

John Ringo needs to continue this series. It needs to continue until the Rangora surrender. I'll be happy when humanity is not only secure but untouchable and the biggest player on the galactic block.

Once more, John Ringo displays his wonderful ability to gaze into another universe and show us what it going on there. Through the power of nuclear warheads and thousands of torpedoes, humanity stands before the breach and holds the line.