Review: Decent but not great.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
I read this book after it was re-issued and after I had read other books by the author - namely Chewing Rocks and Metal Boxes . While I loved those books (Metal Boxes would be 5 stars and Chewing Rocks 4.5), this one I did not like as much. I suspect many of the things I did not like were due to this being a first book since the other books did not have the same issues. I'm glad that I read the other books first though, as if I had read this one first I likely would not have read the others at all and I may be rating this book higher because I really liked the other two.Some issues:Lots of little things either did not make sense or were inconsistent. For example, the number of people in the APES was extremely low, particularly given that this was for a multi system space force and was the only real army they had and they were at war. The chain of command made no real sense at all and the military personnel acted in ways that seemed very unlikely given that they were at war.The end of the book did not really feel like the end of the story. This was less about it not being a logical stopping point (it was) and more about the ending being fairly unsatisfying.Too many POV changes while telling the story.