2025 Re-Read
A trifle less enjoyable than volume one of the series, possibly because war/battle scenes don't excite me much any more. I'm just all battled out. But that doesn't mean that it was boring. We continue to follow the members of the Green Team who arrived in the Pliocene together. The two most prominent are Felice and Aikin Drum, the two most amoral people on the team, who are willing to make sacrifices (of other people) to gain their desires. And they desire power, probably why they were initially drawn to the whole one-way-ticket to the Pliocene in the first place.
Elizabeth, who had been unable to regain her mental powers in the Galactic Milieu, is transformed by the time portal and becomes the most powerful operant person in the Pliocene. Everybody wants her for various purposes, but the Tanu primarily desire her as breeding stock. If they can become psychically operant without the assistance of their torcs, they can defeat the enemy Firvulag.
Felice desperately desires a golden torc to release her latent psychic talents and she pursues this goal relentlessly. She is consumed with the need for revenge on those she perceives as standing in her way. Aiken Drum received a silver torc upon arrival and has worked his way up to fantastically operant without the help of any hardware. Neither of them are trustworthy leaders, however.
Madame Guderian, who was the entrepreneur who opened the time portal, chose to embark on her own trip to the past and now regrets opening this Pandora's box. Can she do anything about it? Will Bryan, the anthropologist, find his love, Mercy? And will Claude find a new purpose once the nun Amery has established herself in the rebel human camp?
As you can tell, it is the personal stories that entice the reader along if the action of the plot doesn't grab them. I am thoroughly enjoying the rereading experience.
Book 3 of my 2025 Read Your Hoard challenge.
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