Homefall (Last Legion 4) - Chris Bunch

Advantages: An entertaining read
Disadvantages: A weak ending

I approached "Homefall", the fourth and final part of Chris Bunch's "The Last Legion" series with a slight feeling of trepidation. Over the previous three books, the Legion has been in the kind of action you would expect an army defending a remote planet vulnerable to attack to be in. In all cases, the books have been thoroughly enjoyable fast paced action novels. However, the end of "Stormforce", the third in the trilogy, didn't exactly build "Homefall" ...
...thinking that they would be veering away from war and into the political side of the galaxy. I wasn't really looking forward to this, as when Bunch dipped a toe into the waters of Musth politics in "Firemask", it took the edge and the pace off the novel. I was worried that the same thing would happen here, but I was swiftly proved wrong. For a long time, the Cumbre system has been isolated from the Confederation, supposedly the centre of the galaxy ... Read review