Cobra Guardian: Cobra War Book 2 by Timothy Zahn

Cobra Guardian picks up afterbook 1, Cobra Alliance.  Jin Moreau joins her husband, Paul, and her son, Lorne, to fight against the Trofts who have invaded the Cobra worlds.   SPOILER ALERT, STOP HERE if you have not read book one.   Jin has found new allies in the insular Qasama people.   They travel to Caelia to gather troops to free the Qasma from the Trofts.  She discovers that the Caelians have their own problems with Trofts and her family is already involved.

They cybernetically enhanced Cobra warriors are the dreamed of super soldiers.   Regardless of their enhancements they are still fraught with the fragility of human fears and phobias.   The book shows that adversity can unite diverse groups and help them to learn that there are ways to solve problems that are not uniquely their own.   The Djinns from Qasma must overcome their historic prejudice while the Caelian Cobras must to the same.

There is plenty of action and the methodology of using the uniquely predatory ecology of Caelia is inspiringly creative.

I look forward to reading the third and final book of the trilogy. 

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