A review by mjfmjfmjf
A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson

3.0

3.5 of 5. An endeavour read and not nearly as bad as I was expecting. Straight out military combat fiction that in some ways reminded me of Piers Anthony's Mercenary series. The main character was a ridiculous super-powered Mary Sue out to save the future. And yet the conceit of a battle precog with short-term lookahead (and lots of other powers) as well as a manipulating spider with long-term lookahead was interesting. The actual combat dragged a bit. I was interested enough to read the preview of the next book, which looks pretty good and not possibly not quite the same as this one.