Review: Still good, but a little bit of a let down.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2012
I enjoyed this book but after the high of Lieutenant it felt like a bit of a let down.Reasons (except for the length 167 pages which really doesn't qualify for the title novel IMHO) are all to do with the story soSpoilers Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers.The Court Martial had no tension and it should have had a lot, the only one worried about it was David and that was only because he's being super wonderful modest. Where were all the establishment lining up against David? and he did murder his superior officer when all was said and done a little drama wouldn't have been out of place.Not to sure about the assignment it seemed like a worthy enough cause but I wonder how useful it will be when it is expanded to planets owned by all those corrupt and incompetent nobles that the King is always complaining about?The DNA soul bond thing with David's childhood sweet-heart felt incredibly shoe horned in, obvious set up for later stories and the whole concept is distasteful in a mind control fashion, plus it seems retarded from the angle of what they were trying to accomplish with the project.The mission behind enemy lines was decent stuff but the whole episode felt . . . like an episode? considering how long it went on for, over a year iirc a lot of nothing happened in between the moments of action which were themselves pretty much glossed over in a paragraph or two. "Captured a ship ho-hum"Nice enough story but the series really felt like it was building to bigger and better things and this isn't that.