Review: pretty good - with some issues
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I got this for free the other day as part of a Christmas promotion. I think I have read it before, it is vaguely familiar. The author often posts his works on the Baen Bar Slush Pile hoping to get a book contract that has so far eluded him so it is quite possible I ran across it there.First off the good parts.Aliens appear and decide to take over the earth. They start by going after the US and crush the US military in short order and then start an occupation.There is some reasonably plausible stuff to the story line, and the story line itself is not bad. Pretty good character development.The bad parts - a fair number of typos and other writing errors.They jump off the page and aggravate me. The book is also a little preachy in spots. But, I was able to get past that.It also has a fair number of issues WRT to how military operations are conducted and how weapons systems are used. Even things as simple as run of the mill firearms. I can grant the author some dispensation for that kind of thing though. There just are not all that many Tom Clancys out there.I think it is book 1 in a 3 book series. No doubt the aliens will eventually be driven off and the world made safe for democracy.