Storm Surge: A Destroyermen Novel, by Taylor Anderson

 

The men of the Us destroyer Walker continue their battle against the Grik on an alternate earth. It’s D-Day as a massive assault to liberate parts of India and rescue the stranded Allied American-Lemurian forces finally falls into place. I love how D-Day fell on 6^th of June, 1944 and yet nobody on this earth knew because they’ve been stranded from our world for over a year.

  Some lingering mysteries are finally answered and solved while a few more pop up in their place.  I think that the series is about due to come to an end. Don’t get me wrong, I love this book and while it took me a very long time to complete it, which was because it’s the last book in the series thus far. So I devoured about 30 pages at a time and then savored the book by putting it away for a raining day.

    However, this is like book 8 and I’ve read well over 10,000 pages about the war against the Grik. I would hate for this series to were out its welcome. I don’t think with the scope of a war in both Asia and the Americas that this series could be completed in one 340 page volume such as this one. But I think the Destroyermen should be seeing peace within at least 3 more books and no more than 5!

  I love the very technical approach Anderson has to ever little weapon and massive ship. It makes me feel like I am right there alongside the Destroyermen. The last 50 pages were action packed and I hated having to put the book down for any interruption of any means.

I can’t wait for the next volume! Write faster, Mr. Anderson! (PS, I have to wait 8 more months till the next book! Please, say it ain’t so!!!)

Worth Consuming

Rating 10 out of 10 stars.

Firestorm by Taylor Anderson, A Destroyermen series novel

Firestorm is my 6th journey into the alternate earth of the Destroyermen. The crew of the WWII destroyer, the Walker are marooned on a strange earth along with displaced English colonials, Imperial Japanese, and blood thirsty Spaniards. On this new earth, they are joined by a lemur/ cat hybrid called the Lemurians and must fight giant monster fish, ravenous reptilian Grik, and the Japanese.
  In Firestorm, a lot happens. The Walker fights to free their colonial allies from the Spanish Dominion in areas of Hawaii and the Bay Area. While a troop of Lemurian Marines fight on the shores of Ceylon, after the Grik use some gigantic fish to wreck their navy. Adding to the suspense, a new batch of Japanese battleships enter through the time warp, filled with a hull of dying and tortured American POWs

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   It's been about 3 years since I read book five, so it's took my a little longer to devour this book as I had to go back and try to remember whose who and why are they important. I'm hooked on this series and very glad that my local library didn't just add this book I'd requested to their inventory, but they got me books 7 and 8 in the Destroyermen series. I can't wait!

8 out of 10 stars.
Worth Consuming.