Review: Decent but somewhat simplistic characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
This is a reasonably entertaining book, though one needs to gloss over the often transparent plot and pretty one-dimensional characters.  The story line (prison world, alien technology with untapped potential, corrupt political system, rogue army general, a hero not fully aware of what he is, etc.) is not particularly original, but it hangs together and has no glaring holes even if how some of those holes are filled is at times not particularly credible or even meaningful.