Review: The first act of a three act play...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
I really like the universe created by this arc of stories.  I feel that Sgt./Cpt. Aida has developed and grown as a heroine.  I couldn't understand how I could rate each of the individual books as mediocre and yet like the series as a whole so much; then it hit me, this isn't really so much a story of its own, but the first act of a three act play...  This novella has a beginning, middle and an end as any good story should; but it doesn't really go anywhere.  It serves as a tool for introducing a couple new races and characters, but doesn't do much else on its own.While Aida has developed as a character throughout the books; no one else does.  There is a new (possibly important) Alliance character introduced; but we know almost nothing about it (him?).  Even the universe of the storyline fails to really develop beyond adding a minute amount of complexity.