Firestorm: Destroyermen

'Firestorm' is Book six in The Destroyermen seriesIn previous books of this series,This is the ongoing exciting story of WWII American, Captain Reddy and the crew of the warship USS Walker as they go into battle to defend and uphold their right to survive after being whisked away from a coral seas, sea battle with a much larger, and more powerful Japanese War Cruiser called 'Armargy' and, after going through a strange green portal in a squall into a new, strange world.  Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I In this strange world that is strikingly familiar geographically to their own world of old earth. They meet and make friends with talking sea faring lemurian 'Cat Monkeys' that ride the oceans in giant 'Homes' that are giant wooden ships that compare in size to aircraft carriers and, new 'British' allies of 'The empire of New Britain Isles' who are descendants of members of a group of 'British East Indian company' sailing ships that had also been brought through a strange green portal in a squall to this strange world in a previous centaury.Against these gallant and courageous warriors are the fearsome two legged carnivores called the 'Grik'. The Grik, who will not only eat their own young but will just as happily eat their own (or anyone else's) fallen or injured warriors and consider any other creature as 'Prey' or 'Worthy Prey'. The overall leader of the many Grik is a huge giant evil 'Mother Grik' who is described as a giant slovenly grossly overweight crocodile looking creature.The war effort by the Grik against the allies in this exciting and glorious episode is led by a fanatical WWII Japanese admiral, who, was also brought to this world, his ship was a Japanese War Cruiser called 'Armargy' in a series of exciting battles with the allies in book four  Distant Thunders: Destroyermen and book five  Rising Tides: Destroyermen  this Admiral lost his ship.This Admiral 'Hates' Americans and American allies and still worships his Japanese Emperor, this Admiral has joined the Grik mainly to attack the Allies, but, is also assisting them to destroy their ancient Prey the lemurian 'Cat Monkeys 'by providing ideas and technology from his WWII earth. what technology??? this you will see when you buy the book/audio cd from Amazon.In 'Firestorm' Captain Reddy and the crew of the warship USS Walker also have to battle the religious blood eating human fanatics called 'The Holy Dominion' The Holy Dominion that has part dark ages, inquisition type Catholic beliefs and part ancient Aztec beliefs (heart cutting out, in sacrifice, type beliefs) and who are led by a group of Blood Cardinals, these cardinals follow a man who styles himself as a "God on earth" and, who takes pleasure in death, purification by pain, torture and bloodletting.With all of the above happening, Captain Reddy and his intrepid warriors also have, Mountain fish, fish big enough to bite a galleon (a large three-masted sailing ship) in half, carnivorous tuna sized fish, dinosaurs of multiple types and sizes and, flying dragons that attack his ship (in formation no less)to handle.With love regularly occurring on his ship and on land, an Australian naturist (that has 'amazing' adventures) as an advisor, and, a big, muscular, loveable, 'Gunners Mate' named 'Silver' that always seems to be getting himself in trouble and who also has 'amazing' adventures, 'Firestorm' is an entertaining read.Firestorm is Book six in The Destroyermen series. Firestorm: Destroyermen I would highly recommend that you buy 'Firestorm' and I would highly recommend that you purchase the full up to date series. (with more to come)This is an exciting series written by an excellent author "Taylor Anderson"I purchase all of my audio and hard cover books from Amazon.com.Amazon.com are my preferred book and audio merchants.Thank you

One of the biggest complaints against George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones or Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time is that eventually the story appeared to get away from the writers, and descended into a bunch of small cut scenes. The plots which had been moving quickly stopped developing.In Taylor Anderson's sixth book in this now epic series some of the same flaws are starting to appear. The ones simple war of the survivors from the USS Walker and their Lemurian allies against the Grik centered near Borneo and Ceylon is now a war across the entire Pacific with the main characters allied with an empire derived from some survivors of a East India Company convoy from the 1700s based in Hawaii and fighting on 2 fronts, both against the Grik and a new human empire based in Mexico that practicies a perverse fusion of Aztec and Christian religious rites.Add in a modern Japanese Destroyer that shows up, but after one attack on an allied Lemurian city vanishes into the Pacific and a Grik deligation sent to South Africa to try to ally with a new "prey", and the story has more threads than some spider webs.The number of characters being followed and given focal chapters also keeps increasing as Taylor tries to keep readers up on events on both fronts, and in all the capital and critical cities of the alliance.Add in Grik blimps flying at 15,000 feet (I'm assuming that the elevation is a typo or a character making an error as at that height the air temperature would be far too cold to allow a blimp to fly) and the Dominion having trained pteryldactyls that are capable of keeping up with and taking down a seaplane and the story threatens to spin out of control.It doesn't in this chapter and is still a very enjoyable read, but the signs are there. Taylor even skips the end of the final battle in this book and has the characters give a rather spotty recap once the USS Walker returns to Hawaii after a fierce battle with the Dominion.the series is still worth reading, but I worry that it will get out of control in the next volume,

I'm a follower of the saga and enjoying each book, and waiting eagerly for the next ....

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Done it again ? I dont know. The promisse of a great writer is still there, the mapwork has definatly improved, the story is imaginative. But...I cought myself putting down the book becuase i got confused over the earlier story, or where a certin person fit in i.e. did this person get in the story with a catalina or submarine or is it an entierly new person ? Maybe a Persona Dramatis so that one quickly can check up ones hunch. I have sofar read all the books ín the series, and because of how i feel about it, i reread the whole thing, but my confuision stands. Maybe ROC should have an stricter more stringent editor in an overwatch capacity ? I dont know, but as the series now rolls around the whole world, it needs to be firmed up. This got more negative than ment from the start, so i will say this much: i will defently buy the next book i the series . In fact i look forward to it.

bought for my patner he enjoyed all of the books that i had bought in the series and was well packaged

I have tried for a long time to get my son into reading. One day he saw a book belonging to someone else and thought he would like to read it. That was 5 books ago. He really likes this series/