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A review by mantaman0a
In Death Ground, Volume 3 by Steve White, David Weber
2.0
Firstly, title bears absolutely no relation, or even mention to what happens in the book - unless of course, you count the indulgent and massive accounts of starship slaughter and butchery
next: blurb's awful pun on Sun Tzu's name ("one-Tzu-three" really?!) was irrelevant, uncalled for and rather disrespectful for a book that claims to write after the tradition of military navies and strategic thought.
attempts at fleshing out characters fail so stupendously. I think I enjoyed reading more about the battleship and missile descriptions than the authors' awkward attempts at making their admirals distinguishable from one another. usually they "shake themselves" or "snort" or speak in a "quiet voice". the final captain we are introduced to, one Aileen Sommers and her "woman issues" smacked of a desperate attempt by the writers to ram some romance into a very dreary and repetitive plot.
basically iDG is One Final Boss Battle after the Previous Final Boss Battle. the battle scenes are indeed gratifying. but they too wear thin after one too many fights. a war is complicated stuff with multiple fronts and intertwined threads; a novel, however, is a select composition. you would have thought the writers could have bothered to make things more distinct and easier to follow.
where and what the hell is Kliean, Harnah, Alpha Centauri? who cares? just the site of Another Bug Battle. Business as usual. having read Ender's Game this book reads more like a teenage boy's smackdown fantasy: hey, let's just see how many massive warships we can throw at each other; let's see how many repetitive battles readers can endure! throw in a diluted dash of liberal-sneering and oblique racist and sexist slants for Characterisation, and we are all set!
next: blurb's awful pun on Sun Tzu's name ("one-Tzu-three" really?!) was irrelevant, uncalled for and rather disrespectful for a book that claims to write after the tradition of military navies and strategic thought.
attempts at fleshing out characters fail so stupendously. I think I enjoyed reading more about the battleship and missile descriptions than the authors' awkward attempts at making their admirals distinguishable from one another. usually they "shake themselves" or "snort" or speak in a "quiet voice". the final captain we are introduced to, one Aileen Sommers and her "woman issues" smacked of a desperate attempt by the writers to ram some romance into a very dreary and repetitive plot.
basically iDG is One Final Boss Battle after the Previous Final Boss Battle. the battle scenes are indeed gratifying. but they too wear thin after one too many fights. a war is complicated stuff with multiple fronts and intertwined threads; a novel, however, is a select composition. you would have thought the writers could have bothered to make things more distinct and easier to follow.
where and what the hell is Kliean, Harnah, Alpha Centauri? who cares? just the site of Another Bug Battle. Business as usual. having read Ender's Game this book reads more like a teenage boy's smackdown fantasy: hey, let's just see how many massive warships we can throw at each other; let's see how many repetitive battles readers can endure! throw in a diluted dash of liberal-sneering and oblique racist and sexist slants for Characterisation, and we are all set!