Review: Relaxing but not memorable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2013
Technically fine, eminently readable as are all the parts of this series so far but still lacking a certain spark of unique design. It has a generic setting allowing you to relax the mind but not challenging it. There's nothing wrong with it if you expect it to be military science fiction of a certain post 1960s mimicking American style (it must be noted the Easter eggs are a little too blatant but then so is the book as a whole) and I did and so enjoyed it but it is a niche product within a niche and within that generic.The bad guys are very bad the good guys are good and there is no grey in-between merely good forced to do bad acts for a greater good (too much codex tau lately) while trying to portray a brief piece on morality and inaction. That which could have been made a centerpiece segment but instead was relegated to make way for additional easy gunfire.Some effort was made in this but it simply did not draw me at least in at all as empathy with the characters who are sketches of stoicism in (for its niche) a generic setting for most of the series and books is frankly quite hard.