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frakalot's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
I liked this one almost as much as the first novel. It probably isn't actually the case but it did feel to me like there was more action and more of scifi interest in this half hour read than there was in the whole second novel of the series.
I never really felt much for the William and Marygay love story, but I liked how it evolved in this. I liked the shift to her perspective and now I'm hoping that the next novel features her as the main point of view.
"So I did love a woman, but as an actual lesbian I was not a great success."
And I like how strange the far-fetched, sexuality-flipped society feels. (It has been a feature of all of the books)
"every time I needed him to do something, he was down in the gym working out on the machines. Or off getting his rectum reamed by some adoring guy"
This story, like the last two ('Forever Bound' and 'Forever Peace'), contains plenty of sex talk and I don't love that but whatever, I liked this story regardless.
There was a line about "separating soldiers from their money" that I think was pretty much directly lifted from one of the earlier stories in the series.
I guess I haven't been following the series closely enough. I'd thought that the "jumps" the ships made through the "star gates" were essentially throwing the occupants into the future because of relativistic effects associated with FTL travel. But in this story it mentions that by jumping around through the gates one could find oneself in one's own past and I'm not sure how that works out. Perhaps the suggestion is that direction travelled in time is somehow linked to direction "jumped" in space. Maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but maybe this kind of thing is the reason I enjoy scifi so much and that's probably why I had fun with this story.
I stopped taking notes about halfway and I'm not going to write anything about what happens in the latter half, but it's enough to say that this is a good story and has renewed my interest going into the third and final novel of the series.
I never really felt much for the William and Marygay love story, but I liked how it evolved in this. I liked the shift to her perspective and now I'm hoping that the next novel features her as the main point of view.
"So I did love a woman, but as an actual lesbian I was not a great success."
And I like how strange the far-fetched, sexuality-flipped society feels. (It has been a feature of all of the books)
"every time I needed him to do something, he was down in the gym working out on the machines. Or off getting his rectum reamed by some adoring guy"
This story, like the last two ('Forever Bound' and 'Forever Peace'), contains plenty of sex talk and I don't love that but whatever, I liked this story regardless.
There was a line about "separating soldiers from their money" that I think was pretty much directly lifted from one of the earlier stories in the series.
I guess I haven't been following the series closely enough. I'd thought that the "jumps" the ships made through the "star gates" were essentially throwing the occupants into the future because of relativistic effects associated with FTL travel. But in this story it mentions that by jumping around through the gates one could find oneself in one's own past and I'm not sure how that works out. Perhaps the suggestion is that direction travelled in time is somehow linked to direction "jumped" in space. Maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but maybe this kind of thing is the reason I enjoy scifi so much and that's probably why I had fun with this story.
I stopped taking notes about halfway and I'm not going to write anything about what happens in the latter half, but it's enough to say that this is a good story and has renewed my interest going into the third and final novel of the series.
par3's review
5.0
4.5 Stars! Excellent novelette that I wish I would’ve read prior to Forever Free. This should be book #2.5 in the The Forever War series but Goodreads doesn’t have it categorized correctly so I didn’t even know it existed. It covers Marygay’s life after being separated from William. Enjoy!
Read: 5/21/21-5/22/21
Read: 5/21/21-5/22/21
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