Review: Nasty battles, in nasty conditions, too realistic for the writer not to be intimate with war.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
War sucks...i am sad so many have been through it.A war story like this can only come from a warrior, only life can teach you things beyond imagination.The science fiction in the book is good, the tale is good, the realities of war are not science fiction but horror, and there is plenty in this series.I'm only just starting the third book in this series and can tell you that i have enjoyed them thoroughly, even though the battles and what it does to the men and women who live them are plenty horrific. I can't help comparing war stories to car wrecks where people look on in strange fascination without the ability to look away...i don't like either, but something inside makes me look on in horrific fascination.Andy, the main character, is quite likable and i find myself drawn to following him on a journey i don't want to take. The loss of friends in this fictional war is hard to imagine, much like real life. Kudos to the author for making it feel so damned real it hurts.