Review: You will enjoy this book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
I am an author but I don't do my own editing so I didn't notice the bad syntax or anything.  I have read over 4000 books in my lifetime!  My favorites, I re-read about once a year (not counted in the 4000). I keep going back to see why this particular book is re-readable and taking it apart and seeing how it works.  This is one book that I'm putting on my "re-read" again list (at least once and maybe more) because I feel it has things in it that I can use and I will enjoy it again because although I know what happens, I get to see the set up better and re-establish my liking of the main character who I really liked.This book was predictable but then, I am very rarely surprised either in books or movies about what is going to happen (it has good foreshadowing which some bad authors don't know how to do).  Watching movies or TV series with my spouse, we guess where the plot is going and I am 99% right.I also liked this book because many of the great authors tell the story from less than 5 people's view point any more than that and 1. the reader gets lost in who you are at the moment because too many view points make the reader have to keep track of 20 or so people and what they are like, their motives, goals, and 2. what makes them different from every other character in the book and be able to write from their point of view CONSISTENTLY throughout the book. This is where many author's fail because the more view points used, the more characters have to be developed almost as well as the main character.  More than 5 main characters takes a lot of time and effort to develop into "real" people and not the same as other characters that you already have. This author stuck mostly to one view point and the main character was very likable and realistic.If you are looking for a "comfortable" and "fun" read, you will like this book.  If you want a lot of suspense and new plot line never before read (and when you have read as many books as I have, new plot lines are VERY rare), then choose something else.I haven't read the next two books yet.  I really disliked reading in the description of the second book that the main character is separated from his squad and on his own.  I felt that the squad was really appealing (sorta like the book "White Wing", one of my favorites.  Anyway, I didn't purchase the second book yet although I probably will (what I'm reading now isn't that interesting, more on a junior level even though the main characters are adults).Read the book and see for yourself.