Conquerors' Legacy (Conquerors Series #3) Book

This book shows why Timothy Zahn is such a great writer. In the first book of the series, he followed several different humans and in the second book, he followed the aliens. In this book, he follows both and creates one of the most compelling Science Fiction stories I've ever read.

To start off with, the plot of this book(and the whole trilogy really) was fantastic. I was rooting for all of the main characters, on both sides of the conflict, to find a peaceful settlement. I found myself racing, particularly in the last 150 pages to find out what had to happen. I was on the edge of my seat for the entire book, and that is exactly what I want from a writer.

I spoke about all the characters in my previous reviews, but in this book, all of the Thrr' family and the Cavanagh family were great and the Overclan Prime was interesting. The villains in this book were both well fleshed out and were quite surprising at times. I genuinly had no idea how the main characters would solve the problem. Every Tim Zahn story has a mystery in it, and this was one of the best mysteries in any of his non-Star Wars books.

As with all military science fiction books, I had a hard time following some of the action, particularly the space battles, but that's not Zahn's fault. There was also a very minor plotline including Aric Cavanagh and Adam Quinn that was ok, it was just not compelling to me. It was the only plotline I was not on the edge of my seat for. However, it was incredibly minor and barely affects my love for the book.

The inclusion of Max as a point of view character was interesting and actually quite funny. Zahn included him in a way that could have been a "Deus Ex Machina" but in reality wasn't. Zahn set up every shock and surprise and twist and turn in the book perfectly.

Really, this is not only a wonderful book, but an amazing series. I dare say that as a trilogy, this is Zahn's best original work(not including Star Wars). Cobra(the first Cobra book) was amazing, but the remaining series was lackluster. His Sybil's War trilogy was good, but not amazing. This trilogy, however, is just fantastic from start to end, and has one of the best conclusions to a story I've read in a while. 9.7 out of 10!