Review: Interesting, but.....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
This book is enough to move me to the sequel, as much out of curiosity as anything. Interesting premise, with the Empire deciding to dump a star system a zillion miles away for reasons of budget.This one is a decent read (kept me up too late). Would be better if the Marines weren't always characterized as twice as dangerous as any three local fighters. (I suspect Mr. Nuttall was a Marine, once)with incredible discipline. The scenario is plausible, once you get over the hurdle of the ruling body of a trillion person empire putting personal screws on a mere Captain for handling a local incident. Once he reaches Avalon, he gets good marks for imaginative solutions to tricky problems. Action descriptions are the best parts of this story. Sometimes l wonder how so many things are accompanied by 81 Marines!Mr. Nuttall' s style seems to be on a high school level; good high school, but still high school. B+.Yeah, I'll move on to Book 2, but I hope the style improves and the plot stays interesting.