Review: Mixed Feelings On This One
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2013
Fledge is about a seventeen year old farm girl on a desert-like planet who is the first and only female to be drafted into an all-male military force (as an experiment).Fiona Frost finds the  experience to be intimidating but soon manages to gain the respect of her comrades because of her intelligence and her refusal to quit.The problems that I have with the story is the protagonist's willingness to be easily lured into committing vandalism, theft, using drugs, and becoming involved in a sports cheating scam. Hardly the innocent little farm girl that the author portrays her as being.Naturally the author glosses this all over to make it seem so innocent but this is what she in fact does.It is an interesting story for all of that but ends suddenly in a cliffhanger with no doubt of a sequel. Reminds me of a modern version of "The Perils of Pauline". If you've never heard of that - go ask your Grandmother.