The Tuloriad
John Ringo and Tom Kratman
Rating: 4 Stars
The Enemy of My Enemy . . .
Of the once innumerable battle clans of the Posleen only a handful survive. And that on the sufferance of a group of despised Indowy and Himmit. Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth they are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slighltly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them.
What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld. A search to determine if the Posleen posess the one thing no Human would give them credit for: A soul.
Returned to their beginnings, the question remains: Is there a new path for the Tular Posleen?
The Tuloriad Review
The Tuloriad continues after the Posleen have been defeated on Earth. One of the ablest Posleen God-Kings survives with a small band but has no idea how they will survive. Taken from Earth by unlikely ‘allies’ they are supplied with a space ship which they restore. With the ship named and restored, they believe they are about to set course for their future. Instead they find they have been hijacked and sent off on a pre-determined route that will show the Posleen more of their history then even the oldest Remember knows.
The Posleen visit planets that are so ancient they have either vanished from their memories or exist only as shadowy stories that are barely remembered. They uncover secrets that have been withheld or hidden from them for centuries and have to decide if they are to continue their destructive behaviour of looting and destroying each planet they attack or finally to accept that there is another way.
Following in their footsteps voluntarily is a sentient space ship and her husband the priest who are trying to find out if the Posleen have a soul. They travel with an interesting group of warriors, scientests, religious members and 3 Posleen. Following the Posleen the humans find out many of the secrets that have been hidden from both humans and Posleen and discover if the Posleen have changed.
This is a fascinating book with so many interesting characters in it. The Tuloriad characters live and you want them to keep on living however, John Ringo and Tom Kratman are not afraid to kill off an integral or interesting character. There are battles, romance, sad and fun things all of which make it a great read.
Rating for The Tuloriad
I gave this book 4 stars. John Ringo and Tom Kratman have written with The Tuloriad a story that uncovers many of the mysteries of just why the Posleen do what they do and did what they did to the earth.
