Review: Promising new writer?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2013
The three stars above are rather weak. The main reason I read this book is that it is the prequel to PickingUp The Pieces by the same author. Now Patriotic Treason is not bad, but there are some things in it that disturbs me a bit. I mean there is nothing wrong  for a writer to borrow a few things here and there but Nuttall goes a little further than that. He could at least have given a little tribute to all the writers that has influenced him among which you would find Robert Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle, S.M Stirling, John Ringo, Tom Kratmann and Michael Williamson to mention some. That said however, the story works. Set in the far future when the United Nations dominate the known Universe (hello Williamson and Kratmann) a young naval officer finds out that the UN has become a tyrant and is also on the verge of collaps. He decides to do something about it, collecting some likeminded around him. I won't tell you what happens, wou will have to do as I and buy the book. Beside having borrowing heavily from other writers there is something else that bugs me. Nuttall is British but the novel is full of mis-spellings and grammatical errors. It is like the author have'nt had time or resources to correct the language before publishing the novel. Proof-reading is the word I think. To sum it up, Christopher Nuttall definitely shows promise and I am going to read his next novel in this mini seies Picking Up The Pieces.SincerelyHans