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thinde's review against another edition
2.0
Apologies to those that enjoyed this book. I couldn't get far into it.
A marine Master-Sergeant who willingly leaves her weapon behind in hostile territory after being asked to take it. She then has to be saved by her hand-picked sniper, who has only one eye. I'm sure depth perception is unimportant in this role.
Then her squad is back together, after a significant time apart, and they train by adopting new, unknown and uninspected weapons, in a simulation against the supposedly toughest aliens in the known universe, without bothering to learn anything about their enemy's capabilities, and fail to address the fact that one of their number can't communicate via radio. Oh and these same aliens have been identified as potential allies.
Nope. I'm out.
A marine Master-Sergeant who willingly leaves her weapon behind in hostile territory after being asked to take it. She then has to be saved by her hand-picked sniper, who has only one eye. I'm sure depth perception is unimportant in this role.
Then her squad is back together, after a significant time apart, and they train by adopting new, unknown and uninspected weapons, in a simulation against the supposedly toughest aliens in the known universe, without bothering to learn anything about their enemy's capabilities, and fail to address the fact that one of their number can't communicate via radio. Oh and these same aliens have been identified as potential allies.
Nope. I'm out.
bookbandit's review
4.0
I rather liked this book. It was about a kick ass Marine (even tho there were several mistakes about rank, but then again, that's nitpicking) but the overall feel of the book was on point. I liked the entire bit about them weaving freaking dragons and magic into guns and space ships. The world building was on point, and like the author said, Riot is pretty much a female version of Deadpool (including the healing factor too minus looking like someone put out a fire on their face with a fork.) If you like books that have a ton of action and some spot on world building. Like Michael Jackson's last album....This is it.
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