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Review title: This could never happen
Product review: Although the first book was at least plausible (if one accepts the premise of the "Event"), this one was absurd. How is it possible that the RON wins every battle it fights, losing not one commander? The weaponry Stirling uses (essentially Civil War-era) resulted in extremely large amounts of command-level casualties. While Commodore Alston is wounded a great many times, she somehow never dies or is even permanently wounded. Her perfection, as well as that of every general officer of the RON, gets annoying and totally ridiculous by the time the novel ends. In contrast, Walker's lack of perfection (and his realization of it) makes him the most interesting of the characters, and I find myself rooting for him, although an Islander victory is inevitable the way the books are going. Stirling might as well have killed Walker in Island and saved us the trouble of reading two more books.
