Review: Good action, less emotion
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
The book shows great volatility: the beginning is well written but you have to assume too many things to be totally convincing. The hero is living on the bottom floor of a floating city on trash thrown down from floors above but his mother has a pass to work on the top floor for a top executive. The boy is called to this person and sold to mercenaries. There he obviously excels in brutal training and wins a few friends, showing extraordinary capacities. At the end he saves his fellow soldiers to escape from a trap and is promoted. The writing is a bit cold but flows. The scene is interesting but one wonders why a floating city that obviously has conquered gravity stays on the planet. The constant battle between the floating cities and/or mercenaries should have a better and more detailed explanation, as well as the economy and currency exchanges between the cities and the mercenaries. The author succeeds more in action scenes than in character development. But at the end, it is an easily readable book and certainly worth the price. Assuming that the author will spend more efforts  showing why people do whatever they have to do (as big a.jump as some of the assumptions we have to accept reading the story) I shall purchase the next book in this probable series.