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rheren's review against another edition
2.0
I was very disappointed. This book seemed to me to be basically a unit of modern-day Marines with plasma rifles fighting every "bad guy" ethnic group from modern-day earth collected together on one planet and led by a reincarnation of Genghis Khan (right down to receiving the reins from his father whose untimely death let him take over the confederation his father had forged). If that sounds far-fetched, I thought it sounded that way, too. I could've overlooked that, though, if it moved quickly or had more creativity to it, but most of the book is Marine boot camp and tedious Marine "oo-rahing" as they carouse in the local town and haze the new guys and talk about the difference between a "master sergeant" and a "staff sergeant", etc. Frankly, the strategies of the bad guys were the only thing that kept me interested enough to finish the book. The ending is somewhat interesting, but overall I wasn't inspired by the book at all.
abigcoffeedragon's review against another edition
1.0
Um, no thank you - 100 pages of Basic Training - Military Sci Fi should be about those already trained UNLESS the training has some special information or purpose - Yeah, I know that the authors are both ex-military - so am I, and I do not need to relive Basic with Laser Guns with guys that are boring, DI that are generic and nothing actually happens - this is more of a info dump beginning - no purpose and no desire to continue - thanks for nothing.
pjonsson's review against another edition
4.0
This book is yet another marine story starting at boot camp. I do not know why but these stories seem to be much more popular than the ones that focus on tech and starships. A shame since I like the latter much more.
Anyway, this is a fairly good book. It’s a not too complicated story about a marine, his first training and his first mission. Naturally there has to be the usual clueless, dumbass officer in there that doesn’t know what he’s doing but thinks he does. Fortunately he gets properly dealt with which increases my rating of this book. I hate it when the author lets the morons win or get off the hook because they are politically connected or something. Luckily these authors do not.
As a part of the initial story setup, there’s also the, equally obligatory, dumbass civilian contractor that thinks he can screw the marines by supplying shitty equipment. He also gets some of what he deserves although he does get off a wee bit easy for my liking.
One review said that the book is “full of swear words, bad themes, and gore”. I do not think it’s that full of it but, it is a marine story. I’m quite happy that the authors didn’t stoop to the, all too common, practice of being politically correct and introduce some new silly word(s) instead of the normal foul ones.
A good start of a series but then, I have said that before and been quite disappointed after the first book. We’ll see how it goes with this one. I will read the next one for sure.
Anyway, this is a fairly good book. It’s a not too complicated story about a marine, his first training and his first mission. Naturally there has to be the usual clueless, dumbass officer in there that doesn’t know what he’s doing but thinks he does. Fortunately he gets properly dealt with which increases my rating of this book. I hate it when the author lets the morons win or get off the hook because they are politically connected or something. Luckily these authors do not.
As a part of the initial story setup, there’s also the, equally obligatory, dumbass civilian contractor that thinks he can screw the marines by supplying shitty equipment. He also gets some of what he deserves although he does get off a wee bit easy for my liking.
One review said that the book is “full of swear words, bad themes, and gore”. I do not think it’s that full of it but, it is a marine story. I’m quite happy that the authors didn’t stoop to the, all too common, practice of being politically correct and introduce some new silly word(s) instead of the normal foul ones.
A good start of a series but then, I have said that before and been quite disappointed after the first book. We’ll see how it goes with this one. I will read the next one for sure.
ryanjamesburt's review against another edition
4.0
I liked this book. Pretty interesting read. Plus it was a free book on kindle.
conalo's review
3.0
This is the first in a long series of military sci-fi adventures told by David Sherman in a far future universe. This one started out really slowly as the author spends more than half the book on back story and preparation of the action scenes to come. It did have a rousing finish and I am glad I stuck it out. I will also probably read on in this series as well.
3.5 Stars for a good action finish. This one could have been better if the action stretched over the whole book.
3.5 Stars for a good action finish. This one could have been better if the action stretched over the whole book.
jeremyreads's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
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