Since he was still alive afterward, the ship made Kyle the captain. It killed the kids, kidnapped Kyle, and put him through a series of grueling tests. Professor Kyle Riggs and his kids were asleep in their house when the alien spaceship arrived. If you're a space opera or military science fiction fan I can recommend this one. As noted this isn't A tale of Two Cities or War and Peace, it is high powered, high octane, fast moving action. I'll not mention the other participants (other than 'us humans' of course), but it's a good read. There's lots of action here both star side and dirt side as battles take place in space and on planet. The book opens with 'our hero' going through a tragedy that would more than likely crush most people, but using the rage it engenders he pushes on, prevails and becomes (another) 'every-man' hero setting out to save the day, or the world. A fairly unique (or at least little used) plot device that sets up an invasion and battle for good old Earth, Terra, home world.whatever you want to call it. We're cool with it, but again I just wonder at picking up a book named the same as an early arcade video game (Star Force) looking for, 'DEPTH'. The main question that came to my mind at that was, 'who picks up a book titled Swarm (Star Force 1) looking for a deep philosophical tome?' It's the people who had the same sort of complaint about Monster Hunter International I suppose.what did you expect? We get it, you're too highbrow for the rest of 'us' pedestrian mbers of the great unwashed, the hoi polloi. There were a couple however that rated it fairly low and said things like, 'simplistic' or 'no depth'. I read some of the other reviews on this one and I see it got a lot of good ratings.

Swarm by B.V. Larson