A review by rheren
First to Fight by Dan Cragg, David Sherman

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.