The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

For a hot minute there I was worried that the whole hard-fought peace from the previous books would be shattered. (Damn that title.) Fortunately, it's okay. It's OKAY. We can blame all our troubles on someone else. Thank goodness. Gigantic super-smart aliens wanting to "fix" all the lower species. That's FINE. I just hate it when the crunchy peacemakers break down and let everything go to shit because they can't keep their colonies in their pants.

That being said, it IS a fun book. Snarky in the way the others were also snarky. Considerate in the way all these books are considerate. And ultimately--peaceful.

That's a strange thing to say about war stuff. But it's true, nevertheless.

I will say one thing, tho: it feels like a book out of another age. One where we are all working TOWARD a more positive future. It's an odd one for that. No?

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