Gordian Division

You changed genres!

Recently I got the first three books of David Weber’s and Jacob Holo’s Gordian Division series out from the library (on Kindle).

The first book (linked above) is a nail-biting time travel story where a single time ship (and crew) discovers that time travel doesn’t work the way everyone thought it did, and they have to battle to save the multiverse (which they hadn’t known existed).

The second was a similar type, with the addition of a very patient villain.

Both these books ended with the huge battles that David Weber is known for.

The third book is a buddy-cop story.

And from what I can see on Amazon, the rest of the books in the series are as well. Ok, it was a good book. I have the next on order in dead tree version at the library.

But I can’t help thinking, all the angst we went through in the first couple of books, all the people we met and loved, or hated, was that just set up to be the background for the buddy cop series? To explain why some things are verboten in this section of the multiverse, and why you can’t just go back and look at the murder to see who it was, or grab something out of the past to use for yourself.

It just feels a bit like a letdown to me.