Review: not bad but could have been better
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2012
I enjoyed reading the story.  The political intrigue and how it interplayed with military operations was the strong point of this book.  The week spot was character development.  There was almost zero development of secondary characters, with almost no ink devoted to the characters of most of the hero's subordinates; they were essentially interchangeable.  Please note that I did not read book 1 of the series.  So, if that is where the character development occurred, then that is why I missed it.  It sure didn't occur in this book 2.  In many ways "Picking Up The Pieces" is very similar to the author's more recent work, "The Empire's Corps," which is a significantly better book.