December, 2018: "Columbus Day" by Craig Alanson

	Author: Craig Alanson
	Genre: Science fiction
	Published: 2016
	Locations: 8039
	Reading started: November 14th, 2018
	Current progress: Location 8039 of 8039 (100%)
	Reading ended: December 5th, 2018. This book was successfully finished in 21 days.
	Final review score: 3.5 of 5

Description

Amazon.com: We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn’t win. And that was the good news.

The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits.

When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn’t even be fighting the Ruhar; they aren’t our enemy. Our allies are.

I’d better start at the beginning.