I just finished reading Victory’s Bright Dawn, book four in Eric Thomson’s Sibohan Dunmoore series.
This was another really good military sci-fi romp, this time with q-ships fighting pirates and mercenaries in order to untangle a vicious frontier conspiracy. Like the other Sibohan Dunmoore books, it’s really quite fun. I have noticed, however, that the endings of these books tend to leave a lot of loose threads hanging, and then never come back to them. In book two a conspiracy against the Commonwealth government was uncovered, and then doesn’t come up again outside of historical mentions. In book three they encountered an entirely new human civilization, and then buried it under top-secret clearances. In this one they figure out the conspiracy on this one colony world, but get cut off from the larger picture. It’s a little much, how everything seems to be only partial victories. I really hope the next book shakes up the status quo a bit, because while I really love these individual adventures in space I am getting a little tired of nebulous background conspirators who get away clean.