Review: Feeling Cheated - a Little.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
This book is an anomaly to me. The action scenes are good and believable, the bits in between have some merit but the whole thing put together lacks something...I really enjoy historical novels especially those ones that draw the reader in and immerse this person in the storyline by proving believability AND entertainment.  I suspect this is where this book fails.The initial training scenes read too much like a lot of modern military novels and, while I have little doubt that hazing existed in the 'day' I want to see something with which I can relate the historical value to, not, just a change in uniform.By far the most annoying part of this book (and the the bit that got me angry and probably spoilt the read) was the spacing between the lines.  If I pay a high (ish) price for a book one of the first things I look at is the number of pagers.  This book had 400 odd pages but with triple and sometimes quadruple spacing I paid good money for a lot of blank spaces. Stopping to be cranky at this spoils the immersion in the story and the experience.So - read the book and enjoyed the story but do not feel compelled to read any more in the series..