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A review by bookaneer
Falkenberg's Legion by Jerry Pournelle
2.0
I feel like I should have liked this book more. It's military scifi. One of the few scifi subgenres I actually enjoy. But I just don't find it enjoyable.
Sure, it has great worldbuilding with lots of details on the planets, local politics and so on. It also has lots of familiar themes of corruption, authoritarianism, colonization, political squabbling and so on. But they became bland when they are overwritten.
The characters didn't help either. The first part of this book was actually quite entertaining with all the combat actions, but then the second part the readers are reduced to see characters talking and talking about power struggle. Even the supposed climax didn't feel like a climax.
Probably this serves better as faux historical account of a space colonization than a novel since I don't care at all about the characters. Not even Falkenberg himself.
Sure, it has great worldbuilding with lots of details on the planets, local politics and so on. It also has lots of familiar themes of corruption, authoritarianism, colonization, political squabbling and so on. But they became bland when they are overwritten.
The characters didn't help either. The first part of this book was actually quite entertaining with all the combat actions, but then the second part the readers are reduced to see characters talking and talking about power struggle. Even the supposed climax didn't feel like a climax.
Probably this serves better as faux historical account of a space colonization than a novel since I don't care at all about the characters. Not even Falkenberg himself.