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The Scales of Justice (The Coalition Book 2) by [Alex Rath]

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Book 2 of 14: The Coalition

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Out from the shadows!

The Serpentes have long felt that isolation was the best way to survive in the galaxy, but a traitor’s actions have revealed their presence to the universe, and Admiral El’Jyiurma of the Serpentes Space Navy has traveled to Gieliv to prevent a terrorist incident from being inflicted on the humans there. She returns home triumphant, but there is trouble brewing—the Serpentes face peril from both internal and external forces, and El’Jyiurma finds herself caught up in the middle.

With word of their existence growing, they catch the attention of a race they’d rather not meet. At the same time, they must battle the hatred and fear that automatically comes from humans, based merely on their appearance.

Fearing an invasion from outside forces, President Frazier of Gieliv sends a desperate plea to the Serpentes, requesting help to bolster their weak navy. With a potential attack looming, the king of the Serpentes sends El’Jyiurma to the Gieliv system to foster diplomatic relations and help defend Gieliv.

Hard choices have to be made, and El’Jyuirma is in the hot seat. Which is the more significant threat, and how can it be stopped? A wrong choice could lead to the end of the Serpentes civilization, and El’Jyiurma has little time to decide.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083VSKQDH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Theogony Books (January 14, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4699 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 348 pages

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Alex Rath is a best-selling Military Science Fiction and Post-Apocalyptic author, currently residing in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife and daughter.

With works published in the Four Horsemen Universe, This Fallen World, and the Salvage Title universe, Alex has now spread out with his own Colonization Science Fiction with the Terran Space Project, starting with "Seeds of Terra."

By day, Alex is an IT professional, and has been for 25+ years. He has worked as a programmer/developer, webmaster, information security specialist, and solutions design specialist. This background allows him to incorporate some technical savvy into his stories, while his experience interacting with non-technical customers allows him to do so in a way that isn't confusing, or 'too technical' for a layperson to understand.

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Steven Woodcock

Another Excellent Salvage Universe Title

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2022

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I can definitely see why this series has been optioned as a movie or perhaps a TV show; it's a pretty neat idea.

This particular book focuses on fall out from an early story and the Serpentes race, who prefers isolation over everything else for the most part. Unfortunately, they've been discovered by one of the nastier races, a group of slavers, and the race is on to figure out how (or if) the Serpentes can be defended.

An excellent book, though definitely NOT a standalone book really. It builds on several on events from earlier books a bit. Recommended, but definitely when read within the series in order.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022

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Slavers and fence less neighbors square off as a couple new systems play-through. Not certain that the swift rise of the protagonist plays easily. Something is rotten in Denmark.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2022

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This was a very enjoyable read. It's based in the Salvage Title universe and I was surprised when Harmon and the Salvage Title fleet were not present in the book. It was still a very interesting story line that I believe showes both the hopeful, trusting side of human behavior as well as the unfortunate, fearful, and small mindedness that runs rampant through our history. It's a very good read that is well worth the time. As the rest of the Salvage Title books it's a lesson in humanity good and bad with plenty of diversity, excitement and space battles.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2022

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But how the neck can a species with no manipulative limbs do the stuff they seem to do. Makes no sense

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james a cole

Not bad, but not what I expected

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2022

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Alex Rath is a fine author, but I can’t help but feel a bit mislead. Other than a few lines about the Bith gates, and our Hero of the Original Salvage Universe, there is little to actually place this story in line with those books.
Don’t get me wrong, I DID enjoy this book. I just really don’t fully get this idea of “open?” Universe style of writing. Perhaps you young people can forgive an old man for still loving the new work without fully understanding how you create it.

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Takeyabue

A unique take at going limbless in space

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2021

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It took about the first third of this book about very big snakes in space before I began to wonder about how snakes, with no limbs, would deal with the numberless daily tasks that we accomplish with our limbs. At that point, I began to pay more attention and started to see just what adaptations they utilized and how this really had some thought behind it. While not really at the total good-old-boys level of the earlier Salvage World novels it was a good read and one that left me with a number of questions that I hope later volumes answer.

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Robert

Kinda thru me for a loop at first

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2020

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This is a complete departure for the previous books. It about some giant spaceship flying snakes and their Kingdom, and a war that follows, it only makes a quick passing mention of Salvage system, I'm guessing this is setting us up for their eventual meeting in another book? I didn't like this one as much it was less about working together then over coming racial differences and racism honestly we get enough of that in the real world if I want that I can turn on CNN and listen to them rant about rampant Racism.

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Buffalo Gap Bill

Not what I expected

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2020

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Of course I thought I was purchasing a 'Salvage Title' book. The Salvage Title was brought up maybe once. So that was Strike One.

The next problem was the Protagonist. They were Snakes! I expected they would have at least vestigial arms/hands. Nope they were Snakes. BIG SNAKES. Well, maybe a symbiotic species to be their hands? Nope. There are on the planet humans, but they are second class citizens. Not as food, or even servants, much less slaves! Strike Two.
A space-faring race of Snakes who build their own space ships. They even have two inhabited planets in their system. How exactly are Snakes, even really BIG SNAKES capable of building a Technological Civilization? Strike Three.

The plotting of the book was okay, but simplistic, stilted and...well juvenile. Read Campbell's 'the Black Star Passes. Or Heinlein's 'Have Spacesuit Will Travel.

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Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 15, 2020

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Loved the story adds to the universe that the salvage fleet series introduced us to. Great action scenes , good pace to the whole book could not put it down hope to see more off the same in the future !

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