Review: a slow prequel to a good novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
This first book in the Spaceforce series is a prequel that gives a view into a particular culture that controls a large empire in known space.  It gives this view by following one individual on his unconventional career path.  The culture portrayed in this novella seems completely alien to an American, but is perhaps not so different from the traditional Indian caste system.The writing is good, but not great.  I never developed an empathy for the characters.  The plot was slow and anticlimactic.However, reading this volume set the stage for having a better appreciation of the second book in the series, which is an excellent space opera that combines alien cultures, spies, law enforcement and several subplots.My advice is to read both this volume and the second in the series in succession.  The excellent second volume in the series makes the this short prequel worth the trouble to read.