Review: Reality Check
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
An interesting side-story of several teenagers who "win" a "contest" to take a trip to a colony world. "Win" and "contest" are in quotes because the contest is rigged, and none of them really want to go anyways. But this takes place just around the time when Stalker is exiled from Earth (there is a peripheral incident which ties in to that event). This is part of the non-military history of the Empire.I liked this more book than I expected, probably because it's dealing with several contemporary issues like bullying, failures to accept responsibility, and so forth. Some of the other books do work around those themes, but this one brings more clarity to those issues.Each subsequent book is better edited, tho I'll bring up a harp from prior reviews regarding misuse of commas. I don't care about US vs. UK spelling differences, but just keep those in mind when you run across words which might be unusually spelled...