I don’t even know where to start with this review. I really didn’t understand any of what was going on, well, maybe some. Still, it was so confusing. The story moves from some place in 38119 (yeah, that’s the year) to a parallel dimension of Atlantis and then to some other parallel dimension of the Texas Republic. If the chapters weren’t clearly titled with the location, I’d never figured out where I was in the story.
Andrew Ethridge is a Cross Dimensional Corps agent. He’s from some dimension where Texas is it’s own country (not as strange as you might think) and he goes from there to Area 51 in the present day back out to Parallel Dimension AT-104 where Atlantis is located. From what I can barely comprehend this Atlantis is very advanced to the point they have some kind of Babel Mesh that restricts all communication to just inside their world. Nothing goes out in space like Earth broadcasts. This happens to be a good thing for Atlantis, but as usual, someone doesn’t like this setup.
There’s also some kind of super being out there somewhere that has captured a bunch of people and aliens and they are doing something for him. What, I don’t know. He/It is supposed to be all-powerful ruling everything and specifically not liking life as we know it to exist. He’s wiped out countless numbers of civilizations but kind of leaves those that are significantly underdeveloped by his standards alone. He finds advanced civilizations by listening to their emissions and observing them traveling through space which is a definite sign that they have advanced technology. But, Atlantis has managed to elude his notice because of their Babel Mesh.
Agent Ethridge and his team are at Atlantis to try and find out how the Atlanteans built the mesh so he can take it back to Earth (Area 51) so Earth can build one. Earth has yet to catch the attention of the One, but we’re getting close. We need that Babel Mesh technology. Of course someone on Atlanta wants to destroy it and that guy is General Pyre. He’s got some idea that the Mesh around Atlantis is stopping all free speech and that’s not right in his mind. It actually isn’t doing that at all, but that’s not convenient to the story so General Pyre and his army are about to attack Atlantis. If the Mesh goes down, the One will come to destroy Atlantis for sure.
So that’s the gist of this story, but boy, is it confusing. There are a lot of characters mentioned, but they seem to move around from dimension to dimension so much that they’re really hard to follow for me at least. There’s some guy named Sobuses (what a name) who plays a critical role in the book, but I have no idea who or what he is. He seems human, but I don’t think he is. He’s definitely smart, like genius, but that doesn’t seem to help him or anybody else much.
Honestly, I don’t think I’m going to continue with this series. It’s just too difficult for my feeble mind to keep up with. I prefer my military science fiction where we’re killing aliens or they’re killing us versus this dimensional hopping stuff. Still, if you want the book 3, “Eye of Horus”, you’re going to have to wait. I think the authors are still trying to figure out what to write in this book. It’s not available or mentioned on Amazon.