Book 1 in Turtledove's Colonization series.

as sequels go, this just feels like the next chapter, some time passed, some people is different, some things are the same ( )

Sometimes you can determine, after the first paragraph, that you're not going to like the next 27 hours of the book. You give up and go on to something that you will enjoy. That's what I did with this book and the other 28 hour books of the series. ( )

This is the first of the follow up trilogy to the author's great Worldwar saga, set in an alternate historical timeline where a race of lizards ("The Race") invade Earth during the Second World War. I enjoyed the four Worldwar novels and thought it would not be long before I tackled the follow ups, but in fact it has been nearly seven years. This novel is set in 1962, at a time when the Race has conquered central and south America, Africa, southern Asia including India and China, and Australia; while Russia and the United States remain independent, most of Europe is part of the Greater German Reich, with Britain still independent but gradually falling under the Nazi yoke. The strengths and weaknesses of this novel exactly mirror those of the Worldwar tetralogy; on the positive side, a range of interesting characters, both human and Lizard, and a vivid sense of the different cultures and assumptions of the two worlds; on the negative side, the relentless hammering of the same plot points, particularly on ginger (though it has some new and interesting effects here). Basically, if you like the Worldwar series, you will like this; if you are looking for an evolving series with new ideas, this is not it. ( )

this seems to be my favourite in the World War series. The characters and the larger picture seem to mesh better than usual in this one. ( )