The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey
The Mercy of Gods showed us what it was like to be overwhelmed and quickly subjugated by an alien race. The Faith of Beasts asks can you live as a subservient species, and can you fight back if failure means the extinction of the human race? Dafyd Alkhor is the conduit between the surviving humans and the ruthless, nearly inscrutable, Carryx. Is there a way to win their freedom? And can he keep the cohort of surviving humans working to prove their usefulness to their captors in the meantime? Good writers can create a convincing alien world. Great ones can create a whole universe. James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) are great ones, and book 2 of The Captive's War is fantastic. The first book focused on humans surviving their captivity and competing with other races to accomplish tasks useful to the Carryx. They accomplished that, and the human race survives. For now. They are given new tasks that necessitate splitting up the surviving humans. Some sta...
