Review: Pretty good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2011
Chris Nuttal is a wannabe author who hangs out at the Baen Bar slush pile (where would be authors post manuscripts hoping to get a book contract). He has written a number of pretty good SF novels he publishes on the Baen Bar, but for whatever reason has not gotten a book contract.Many of his books are themed a lot like this one. Good versus evil. Young officer fights the evil system and wins in the end.They tend to be pretty simplistic books, and the character development is not much more than the author's apparent belief that certain military officers are basically saints in uniform and can save the world if they would just try. It does not work that way in real life, and it takes away from the story some.About 5 pages into the story it got familiar, and as I read it more, I realized it was one of the novels he had previously published on the Bar. It was long enough ago that I read it there, and good enough of a story that I decided to read it again.It suffers from a lack of a ruthless editor like a lot of self published works. There are not a lot of grammar, spelling, or continuity errors, but the somewhat one dimensional cookie cutter type characters could use some help.Even so, for $2, it is good fun.