Cobra

Plenty of action to keep the reader entertained and nice to have the invading aliens as rational beings who can be negotiated with. But the book is sadly typical of its genre in that only one character is developed to any extent, everybody else is just supporting cast, and the few female characters in the plot barely merit a mention. Having said that, always nice to see a book where botanical research is responsible for a key plot twist and the book definitely breaks free of its genre with its repeated reminder that warfare is horrific, also for the soldiers, and should be avoided.