the next Adventures of the Vorpal Blade II. Two Guns is married, Dr Weaver is a sidelined character and Miriam [the genius linguist who hears the voice in the ship] has taken over from Mimi for weird/genius female role. The ship finds a big artifact, and in order to deny it to the Dreen, figure it out. Turns out to be a big, solar system sized entertainment system. They turn it into a weapon to fight the Dreen. And there are some bio-engineered purple crab thingies that turn out to be Dreen eaters. So the Dreen are fought off, again, and the Alliance of humans, cheerick and hexohaurs[or whatever] have a bit of breathing room.

I got this as a free download off of Baenbooks, and I have to say, I am glad I don't own this in pbook format. What a waste of paper that would be. ( )

The fourth in the Looking Glass series. The Vorpal Blade sets forth on a third trip to check a system where their mysterious power source originated. There they find a huge fleet of Dreen with no chance of beating them. Great story, again ups the ante. A new commanding officer is being broken in, along with sergeant-turned-lieutenant Two Gun Bergsstrom. Two Gun gets an interesting insight into leadership from the new CO and other bits of business are shared with the reader as the Vorpal Blade gets to its destination. Excellent story. Highly recommended. I don't care for series books too much, but I can't wait for the next in this series. ( )

In the 4th book of the Looking Glass series, the storyline's undergarments are starting to show. The formula of the third book ([b:Manxome Foe|1624960|Manxome Foe (Looking Glass, #3)|John Ringo|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186032977s/1624960.jpg|1618980]) is repeated: first 60-80% of the book is about "they flew there" and "they flew here" and the "marines made fun of the CO", then the final part is about a big space battle with exotic ships and weapons, alien allies and enemies and the hard-fought victory by the key characters, all of whom manage to survive and are in fact the heroes.The final battle is probably worth the effort (to both writers and readers), although this probably could have been a short story rather than the novel length treatment here. Hopefully, this marks the end of my military fiction binge as I am all gung-ho-ed out. Need to stop jumping to attention for Semper fi! ( )

This is the 4th book in the Looking Glass series, and again features many of the same characters in the new and improved Vorpal Blade flying around the galaxy fighting. This one is less about discovery and more about the combat, though its not quite as tense or desperate as in previous books. If you like John Ringo books you'll still like this one, but it is not my favorite. ( )

The Vorpal Blade II is gearing up for her first real mission. With the Dreen presence looming and the rest of the world suddenly in on the interstellar secret, the crew is back together, the newly married (and promoted) Two-Gun Eric Bergstresser, XO Bill Weaver, of course Miriam, are off again.

Ringo takes a couple of side-trips into domestic life and military day-to-day, and trots out a few old jokes. Entertaining as always. ( )