Review: Good, solid military SF
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
This book is a solid entry in the Military SF genre.  I enjoyed reading it, and have also read all of the sequels.The combat scenes are well done, if a bit gory. The technology, while somewhat more advanced than ours is currently, seems to be less so than I would expect. While it is never explicitly stated, this may be because the Marines operate at the end of a long, tenuous logistical pipeline.That being said, I have a few nits to pick:First, the Marines are just a little too good to be believable. I understand that they are meant to be larger than life, but there needs to be some sense of proportion.Second, things come just a little too easily to the protagonist Captain Edward Stalker. He leans heavily on the near legendary reputation of the Marines to persuade the local leaders to do his bidding. For a group of planetary leaders, their credulity seems a little unbelievable.