Review: All in Good Time (April Series Book 11) by Mackey Chandler

All in Good Time by Mackey Chandler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Earth Just Won’t Learn!

This is the 11th book in a continuing series, if you haven’t read the preceding books you won’t understand this one. The narrative ends at a natural break but the story definitely continues in the next book. There is a series, Family Law, that is set in the future and shares some of the same characters. The timeline winds between the two series and the reading order can be found in this post.

With April, Jeff and Heather working to make their plans work, they know in order to get out into the stars on a more permanent basis they need resources. Resources that they need to keep dealing with Earth for. Sadly Earth seems to be filled with people incapable of learning a single lesson in relation to Home and Central. Despite being beaten badly by April, just recently, USNA decides to take advantage of an emergency landing in Florida of a plane that carries Irwin who is a friend and colleague of hers and take him prisoner on trumped-up charges. So what’s a girl with orbital weapons to do?

This book continues to explore the idiocy of Earthies. Though Central and Home do continue to have friends on Earth, they appear to be in the minority. I felt that this book wasn’t the most exciting in the series and it covered a lot of the same ground that previous books, namely that people from Earth just don’t learn and that April is prepared to bomb them back to medieval times if necessary.

I did enjoy the continuation of following Eileen and Vic on Earth, in Northern California. Their story is a result of April’s previous bombardment and is a dystopian tale of hardship and the bonds of a made family. Those characters are interesting because they are very very practical people who find themselves happy because of practical decisions. Vic is much older than Eileen by decades but their emotional and mental connection is very real as they look at things in the same way, as Eileen is intelligent and mature beyond her years. I imagine living through what feels like an apocalypse is very good at making you grow up fast.

Whilst I know that everything comes in time, I’m not sure that some of this book wasn’t filler until enough time has passed until something more useful occurs. I hope the next book’s narrative takes a leap forward into something new.

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