The Ninth Metal

Overall, I thought the story was decent.  The story held my interest and had a good lead-in to the next book in the series.  However, for the described potential of the Omnimetal, the story seemed unrealistically “local”.  A couple relatively small companies fighting for mineral rights where something with so much financial and military value would be universally fought for.  The characters were well described and defined, but they were not all a necessity in the story and distracted me.  I would have liked to have the action scenes to be longer.  It was like this nice lead up and then, “bam”, it was over.  I am not sure I will continue with the series but I just might to find out if and how the story goes national and/or global.