Review: Overly written with throwback attitudes
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
Bridgeman seems to make the characters the story rather than being a part of the story. She goes off plot on long and plodding aspects of the characters to the point I found myself scanning past entire pages looking for the plot lines buried in all of the irrelevancies. The author also paints the military as overly macho, denigrating women as a weaker sex and useless to their missions in a way reminiscent of 1950s sci fi.  She also writes in a lot of gratuitous violence which is oddly lacking in the action to support it. However, Bridgeman's story is a decent enough one that it keeps you reading in spite of its flaws. I think that this book could lose a lot of textual weight and be an exiting novella, but the sheer density of the book as it is, is overdone.