Just finished reading book 10, "Devil's Due", of Taylor Anderson's Destoyermen series. I may follow this up with a longer review, but the short version is: Really slow start, too much exhibition, but (as always) great battle sequences. Fortunately (or unfortunately, as there's been a year or more between each volume), though one of the main protagonists is vanquished, there will be at least two more volumes to wrap up the remaining, far-flung and barely connected story lines. I'm afraid Taylor has caught the same verbosity virus that affected J.K. Rowling, towards the end of the Harry Potter series. He could have easily fit what's in "Devil's Due" into half the number of pages and not really lost anything important. So, a bit of a slog through the first half of the book, but couldn't put it down through the second half.
One interesting thing (spoiler): Much is made about how powerful the League of Tripoli is purported to be, but that they are occupied with another, as yet be revealed rival power. This is why, the book insists, the League has chosen to merely meddle in the US-Lemarian-Japanese-Grik-Dominion wars, rather than become actively engaged. Since this "other business" has not been revealed in any detail, only hinted at, my estimate of two more volumes may be short by one or two books. The fact that the League gave Kurokowa the Savoire, an old but still formidable battleship, they must indeed have considerable resources. If they're having trouble dealing with another power, it must be potent, indeed! Guess we'll see.
