Matthew Fechter: The style of Kloos' writing is an easy read for anyone familiar with the military. And the sci-fi element fits well with realistic but exciting. Reminds me of The Expanse of Star Citizen.
United States on Aug 15, 2023
K. M. Dorsey: Since first contact with the Lankies, they have continued to suffer defeats. Rather than band together, they also continue to fight other humans at home. Grayson gets sit to a moon of supposedly little importance, with ground trooper troublemakers and no way home. Military officers fight amongst themselves until orbital support causes a ceasefire and they discover Lankies inbound. There are just so many ways to die!
United States on Aug 11, 2023
P. Seagrave: This book improves on book one in fleshing out the story and characters. The pacing and action in this book is quite addictive and I read this one in short order. My review of book one sort of still stands for this one but definitely worthy of an additional star as this book just felt more of a complete and better thought out package. Already have book three purchased and ready to go so that tells you all you need to know!
United Kingdom on Jul 12, 2023
C.Paulin: Overall, Lines of Departure is a great sequel to Terms of Enlistment in the Frontlines series.
What I liked:
- A strong voice. Kloos does a great job with the first-person present POV.
- One of my criticisms of the first book (Terms of Enlistment) was that too many of the battles were Alamo-style defensive engagements. This is not the case with Lines of Departure, which delivers a nice balance of land and space battles.
- Detailed and imaginative battle kit (e.g. helmets that automatically cut sound to protect ears and tint visors to protect eyes from nuke blasts). If you’re a military hardware buff, this book is for you.
- After two books, the biggest strength of the Frontline series continues to be the tender moments between Andrew and the characters who are closest to him emotionally. Aside from the scenes with Halley, there are touching scenes between Andrew and his mother. The latter serves to raise the stakes with respect to Earth, which is important given the way Lines of Departure concludes.
- Great world dynamics. The author has constructed an intriguing web of conflict, with humans battling each other as much as the Lankies. Peril lurks...
Canada on Apr 13, 2023
Juan: The book is third I'm reading from this series. It's nice. It's nowhere near the expanse but I've enjoyed it. Takes a bit to get through the start but I always come for more :-)
Spain on Jan 17, 2023
Naren Bade: And the fight continues. Gripping. Great job. Couldn’t stop reading once I started. Keep it coming. I love this series.
India on Dec 28, 2022
Lloyd Lofthouse: There are seven published books in Marko Kloos’s Frontline series, and I’m starting #7, Order of Battle, today. I bought Terms of Enlistment back Late November or early December, 2021 (somehow Amazon lost the fact that I bought this book through them. All the rest of the seven books in the Frontline series are there in my order history, but not #1. It should be.
What’s telling is that I’m writing my reading experience on January 23, 2022, less than two months after I finished reading the first book in the Frontline series.
In #1, Andrew Grayson, the POV character, enlists and goes to bootcamp where he meets the love of his life. Since Grayson is the POV character in every book, why should I spoil your reading experience by telling you what happens to him as he climbs the ranks and becomes an experienced battle-hardened veteran also dealing with the PTSD that comes along with that ride.
Because I’m going to post this review for the first six books in the Frontline series today, I’m not going to review the stories. Instead, I’m going to share my reading experience with all six books one time only and post it six times, and then post again when I...
United States on Jan 23, 2022
N. Walton: Having inhaled book 1 at lightning speed, I chewed my way through book 2 almost as fast. In the first book, the protagonists (a small group of newly passed-out junior officers and NCOs) in the space navy, with assorted friends in other services, run headlong into a new alien threat, barely escaping with their lives.
Book two charts the gradual defeat and overrun of the human outer colonies, and document humanity's attempts to resist and fight back. The main protagonist, Andrew, having been bored of being a neural net tech decides to change tack and become a "combat controller" (basically a one-man walking situation-room and planning strategist). He gets special kit, special armour and deference from the others. Having taken that track, he finds himself in a very small group of people with his skillset, and therefore finds himself being dropped behind enemy lines to control and coordinate strike missions on the alien-held planets far more than anyone else. He finds himself tasked as a liaison to some of his former colleagues on a mission to move them to garisson a frigid world known as New Svalbard, but doesn't realise that it's going to become a one-way-trip.
This...
United Kingdom on Apr 11, 2017
R. McAdams: I don't give out 5-stars to anything casually. The best you are going to get out of me if I like something is 4-stars. I reserve 5-star reviews for things which have something special about them. They don't have to knock my socks off, but they have to have something to offer that is more than just "good." That being said, as with the first entry in this series, Terms of Enlistment , Lines of Departure is just as awesome!
I am a huge fan of the military science fiction genre. I love books like The Lost Fleet Series by Jack Campbell, and The Man of War Series by H. Paul Honsinger. Kloos, like Honsinger and Campbell understands how to mix together elements of honor, excitement, duty, realistic military descriptions, and space-faring ships crewed by humans in a way that is just spell binding. These kinds of books are capable of keeping me up until 4 AM to read "just one more chapter" because I HAVE TO find out what happens next!
Kloos, like Campbell and Honsinger, writes exciting military science fiction that depicts humanity realistically, but with some artistic license to keep things interesting. None of them go too dark with their stories...
United States on Feb 23, 2014
| Frontlines Series, Book 2: Lines of Departure | André Klein's German Learning Journey: Café in Berlin - Stories to Enhance Your Language Skills | Terms of Enlistment: A Frontlines Novel, Book 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
 |
 |
|
| B2B Rating |
97
|
98
|
97
|
| Sale off | $5 OFF | ||
| Total Reviews | 109 reviews | 73 reviews | 225 reviews |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,242 in War & Military Action Fiction #1,429 in Space Marine Science Fiction#4,087 in Science Fiction Adventures | #25 in German Literature #145 in Foreign Language Instruction #1,526 in Short Stories | #700 in Space Fleet Science Fiction#1,212 in War & Military Action Fiction #3,964 in Science Fiction Adventures |
| Paperback | 328 pages | 97 pages | 334 pages |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches | 5.06 x 0.22 x 7.81 inches | 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1477817407 | 978-1492399490 | 978-1477809785 |
| War & Military Action Fiction (Books) | War & Military Action Fiction | War & Military Action Fiction | |
| Publisher | 47North | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Bilingual edition | 47North; Revised edition |
| Language | English | German | English |
| Item Weight | 12 ounces | 3.67 ounces | 13.6 ounces |
| ISBN-10 | 1477817409 | 1492399493 | 1477809783 |
| Science Fiction Adventures | Science Fiction Adventures | Science Fiction Adventures | |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4/5 stars of 17,613 ratings | 4.6/5 stars of 3,530 ratings | 4.3/5 stars of 22,725 ratings |
| Space Marine Science Fiction | Space Marine Science Fiction |
United States on Sep 02, 2023