reagan3 's review for:

Breach of Peace by Daniel B. Greene

3.0

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3.5/5 but I usually round down for Goodreads. I really enjoyed this novella. Considering how short it was I can't believe how absorbed I got in it. I even had to take a break between the two most intense chapters and when I picked the book back up I was immediately fully immersed again. The action scenes had me reading as quickly as I could and the portrayal of emotional shock was incredibly well done. My biggest complaint is the dialogue. Maybe it's just my accent/way of speaking, but I'm used to conversational dialogue using contractions. When characters spoke to each other and said "I am" instead of "I'm" or "we are" instead of "we're" it felt unnatural to me. There were also a few paragraphs that I completely misunderstood and had to go back to reread. Unfortunately with this being a novella that comes before a main entry into the series, there's a lot of world building and background info that isn't provided here. That being said, I'm already invested enough that I'll keep reading just to learn more about the world. Amazing work Daniel. Can't wait to see what comes next.