A review by meagankc21
Able One by Ben Bova

2.0

The plot itself is intriguing, and I really enjoyed the military strategy elements, but overall, this book was lackluster. There were too many characters to develop properly, leaving room for only surface development. Some story lines didn't even feel necessary to the plot as a whole that it left me wondering what they were doing there. The women characters especially were heinously underdeveloped, but that was a big problem I had with the book. It was clearly written by a cishet white dude, as all characters that would be considered Other were treated so atrociously. There was clear prejudice across the board for any character that wasn't a white man that it made it hard to enjoy the story itself. I feel like this was a book I could have enjoyed more had I read it when I was younger and much less aware of these kinds of problems in media, but not anymore.