Iron Gray Sea

Time once again for Taylor Anderson's soap opera that is his Destroyermen series. I still love these books, but the scope keeps getting bigger and bigger and less and less happens in each book.

In this book, we have two engagements with the Japanese destroyer Hidoiame, some land, sea and air battles in India, a small engagement in the Galapagos, assassination attempts, torpedo demonstrations, a wedding, a quick view of Dominion jails, and finally the result of the Grik-Japanese expedition to Africa to talk to the exalted prey. All of this covers two months of novel time, and we are still far from any conclusion. There weren't even any conclusions to the storylines in this book. It was simply another turn at the wargame table. Even the end of some small plotline would have been welcome. But then again, Turtledove does it in his mega series and I read a few of those.

This series is still fun to read, and I took many liberal moments to get through it quickly. But now I am left wondering when the next installment will be. My guess is February, but there is no indication of a future book at this point.