A review by tani
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

3.0

I thought I would really like this book, after all the favorable reviews I had read. But while it wasn't terrible, it wasn't really for me either. I think a lot of my problem was with Roen. He was just so thoughtless. Things that are obvious, like that when you command a group of soldiers, you probably will feel some responsibility for their deaths, were things that he only thought about at the last moment. It made him really hard to connect with, for me.

I did think it was an easy to read book, but I have to admit, I kind of lost patience for it when a character expressed some incredibly sexist views, which no one seemed to really object to. After that, really struggled with the rest of the book.

I liked the ending more than I thought I would, though, and I suppose I will consider reading the second book eventually. It just might take me a while to get there.