Relentless by Jack CampbellMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
From Goodreads.com: After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.
This one started out a bit slow, with our good Captain Dejani rah rahing! our Captain Geary who seemed to be in a bit of a funk. We still have unrealistic (in my opinion) antagonism between Co-President Rione and Captain Dejani: Rione jealous of Geary confiding in Dejani on ship matters, and Dejani jealous of Rione being on the ship at all. Recall, we have unrequited love between Geary and Dejani, but because Dejani is Geary's subordinate, and he doesn't want to ruin her 'honor', they remain all very proper. Rione feels she has dishonored herself by sleeping with Geary when - unbeknownst to her - her husband could still be alive somewhere in the universe. Puh-leze!<\i>
Once we worked our way through all that Victorian romantic tension, we have the Syndics desperately trying to stop the Alliance fleet from getting home, aliens on the universal doorstep, and someone internally trying to sabotage the fleet AND murder Geary. That's when the story really started picking up.
Enjoyed this one, buzzed through it in a couple of days. Not a real 'heavy' scifi, lots of space battles, a decent space opera all in all. Recommended if you've read the first four in the series.
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