

In the first book, set five years after a war between planets, a new war seemed to be ramping up.


(Which is great when you're reading one of his books after another, but in a couple years when book 4 comes out, I'm going to be lost.) That makes books run together more, and I really couldn't tell you what happened in book 2 vs 3. Marko Kloos doesn't recap his previous books, not in a stand-alone section nor within the text itself. This is probably not a statement about the quality of the books - I almost always love first books best, since the most world building is done in them and you're just meeting new characters. They were both somewhere between good and really good, but I didn't love them as much as book 1. While I inhaled book 1 (Aftershocks), book 2 and 3 weren't as amazing. Ballistic (The Palladium Wars Book 2) by Marko KloosĬitadel (The Palladium Wars Book 3) by Marko Kloos
