Review: Primus wants . . .
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
. . . to become a legionnaire in an army where his father is a general, to prove himself to his brother legionnaires, to find out truth about his general father who he hasn’t seen in years.  He is making fast progress on the first two, but then he is selected for a mission whose purpose is not revealed.  Then his father and his brother legionnaires are betrayed by a disgraced legionnaire, then the barbarian Woades attack, then he struggles to survive and find some of the reasons behind what his father was apparently doing with two large chests of gold and a large cache of silver.  Primus doesn’t find out in this installment; nor does the reader.  Though other reviewers feel this book stands out, they’re hooked and waiting for the next installment, that next installment isn’t where I’m going.  I somewhat regret having bought both Legionnaire and Protégée at the same time before I’d read either one.  I guess as one reviewer says each novel can be read independently, standing by itself, so I would add that each can fall by itself.  Perhaps Primus and Lilith (from Protégée) could share their confusions and begin to make some sense of their situations.  But that idea is simply pure speculation.