A review by datadog1
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon

3.0

While I did like this book it was a bit of a slog to get through. It was clearly the setup for a series or a sequel, and the large amount of data dump felt more like work than an enjoyable reading experience. The main protagonist Caine was too good at everything, often taking me out of the story due to my rolling eyes. And the political situation of Earth seems way too close to today, or even outdated a bit. That being said there was an interesting mystery which remains unresolved by the end, and the aliens were pretty interesting too. My TBR pile is too big to spend more time on this bloated series however.

I think I was especially annoyed by the flaws in this book because I could see how with editing this could easily have been a super fun book I lost myself in. Instead I struggled to get through it and the plot points that interested me remained unresolved by the end.