djorgenson112358 's review for:

Old Man's War by John Scalzi
4.0

A military sci-fi that is fun and interesting enough. Not brilliant; not mediocre. It's kind of like a summer popcorn flick. Turn off the brain in parts.

It has a nice wry humor to it. As well as a decent dose of introspection. And there are also those parts where it's just fighting aliens. There's the occasional bit of future tech, magical hand-waving but that's kept to a couple instances.

Edit: On further thought, there was more than a smidgen of male Mary Sue to the main character.