Andromeda's War (Legion of the Damned Book 3)

This was a very satisfying end to this part of the series. Like most of William Dietz's books this was a ripping good story-with abundant action, well developed personal relationships, and excellent character development.If there is any complaint is that one planets indigenous people seem to be a lot like another planets - that is semi-nomadic warriors.However, it is a small point that is a bit of an irritant and does not really detract from the story. The bad thing is that there is so much that one is sorely tempted give away part of the story, but suffice it to say that Cat wins out in the end.This is a must read for Dietz fans and a should read for fans of military science fiction.

Andromeda McKee must be one of the toughest women in the Galaxy, even for a legionair. This novel concludes Dietz's latest trilogy of the Legion of the Damned in a very satistactory manner. Dietz's writing is as usual crisp and to the point, the action scenes very good and the plot quite believable (for SciFi that is). This time we also get to follow the actions of Andromeda's lover which adds some more dimension to the plot. The end may be something of a sursprise but that you will have to find out for yourselves. You can read this novel as a stand alone but as usual it is better to start from the beginning with the first novel in the trilogy (Andromeda's Fall).RegardsHans

Great Series! Puts a lot of background into the Legion. Many have written syfy based on the Legion(French Foreign that is), but this is one of the best out there. If you haven't gotten into the Legion of the Damned yet, I'd recommend reading these first.

It is good when you can identify with a character or something said by a character. I particularly identified with Andromeda's statement to Olsen that morale suffers when assignments are consistently too difficult to achieve. Being continually shown to be wrong or incapable of achieving tasks is never good and turns people off learning and trying to work out things for themselves. I love using brain teasers and logic problems in my teaching and talk with adults but they are almost always too hard for students and adults to work out. As a result adults tend to be get negative after awhile and like the students just want the answers. The answer as Andromeda says is to get easier problems, that can actually be solved, and this is what I will do.

Andromeda McKee is right up there with all of them. I hope to see her again sometime. Long live The Legion of the Damned!

It is doubtful the author or his minions will ever see this review so I will keep it short and sweet.As we follow the on-going struggles in Human Space, Andromeda, aka Lady Catherine Carletto which she keeps secret to protect her life.Battles are won and lost in the struggle against an evil queen and an alien race.Read the book and see how you like it? I loved it!

I loved this series and will probably re-read the whole thing in about two or three years. Mr. Dietz created a great character in Andromeda and made her someone I would have liked to know in real life. The only reason I did not give this volume a five is that I found the ending to be weak and unfulfilling. I just can't see these very strong characters as ones going quietly into the night.

I found this third volume the best of the series to date, as the title heroine actually develops more deeply as a character. The non-stop action is terrific and realistic (but not for younger readers!). The book ()and series) screens "MAKE ME A MOVIE!" Dietz does it again.

Dietz's skill as a writer draws you into the life-story of Andromeda's journey to escape the Empress's death squads and escape and hide among the ex-criminal and hard-bitten recruits for the despised Legion of the Damned.This final novel is more action-packed than the previous ones, and again you find yourself drawn into Andromeda's desperate attempts to survive borh the war and the incessant assasins on her trail.It rounds off the series in a satisfying way and makes you realise what happiness really means when all you know is fear and death and terror and grief.Well done, Mr. Dietz, for an enjoyable visit back to the Legion of the Damned galaxy.

This is volume 3 of what seems to be a trilogy, although the story ends in such a way that, maybe, there will be some kind of follow-up. If you like military science-fiction, then you are likely to enjoy this book (and the two others before this one).Those that have come across William Dietz before, and read at least one of his books in the “Legion of the Damned” series know already what to expect. The context is that of a Human Empire – more of a dictatorship than anything else - run by generally unscrupulous and murderous leaders vying for power and where “the Legion”, closely inspired by the French Foreign Legion for which the author seems to have a particular soft spot, does all the “hard and dirty work” on the battlefields of far-away planets.The hero in this volume (and in the two before) is one young Andromeda McKee, alias Lady Catherine Carletto, who escaped the Empress’ purges after her violent take-over of Imperial power by joining the Legion and managing to get rid of those tracking her. She is a platoon leader and then becomes a lieutenant in the 1st REC (1er Régiment Etranger de Cavalerie since the author has, rather quaintly, kept the French names for all of the Foreign Legion regiments, even if he misspells them at time).The beginning of this episode sees the Empress Ophelia taking radical measures against the “terrorist” organisation (from her point of view, of course, while they call themselves unoriginally the Freedom Front) in order to wipe them out once and for all. Then she embarks on a morale-boosting tour of human colonies. This is where the reader’s credulity stars to be stretched a bit, with the Empress essentially putting both herself and the heir to the throne at risk and being accompanied by a rather flimsy escort when travelling through space.I will stop here since I do not intend to tell the story and therefore spoil it, and will instead mention some of the book’s main features.One set of features is that it is “action-packed”, “fast-paced” and easy to read, and this is exactly what you would expect from an entertaining piece of military science fiction. So if this is what you are looking for (as I was), then go for it. As mentioned before, you may come across some scene and events that you will find somewhat implausible (there are some) but then this is not exactly the only book where this happens.Another set of features, for the Dietz fans, is that you can also expect to come across some of his usual themes. The natives on both Algeron and Savas reminded me of native North American Indians. Both the Humans’ and the Hudathans’ behaviours towards them are rather unscrupulous (except, of course, for our hero). Both have a strong tendency for double-dealing and pitching the various tribes against each other.You also get quite a bit of the “usual stuff” about the T1 cyborgs, the honour of the Legion and brotherhood among the Legionnaires. One feature includes quotations at the beginning of each chapter. Some are entirely made up, as you would expect (such as the quotes from Hudathans or from the natives of Algeron and Savas). Others are portrayed as genuine but may in fact not be so. One such is a supposed quotation from a colonel Jose Fuentes, commanding officer of the 2ème REP (the Foreign Legion parachute regiment) in 1936. The only problems here is that the 2REP was founded a couple of decades later (before that it was a parachute battalion of the Legion but even this was founded in 1948) and it was never commanded by a colonel of this name…One point that I particularly appreciated however was the insight into the warrior society of the Hudathans and their clanic and rather aggressive and bloodthirsty politics.All in all, this was a rather good and competent title, even if neither the contents nor the end were very surprising. Four stars.

good story

good read

Well worth reading this series