Review: fun but nothing special
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2013
This review is for the book version that was published on Baen's Bar.First off the writing. There are a lot of writing errors - word usage, grammar, tense, punctuation, etc. Many times the wrong words have been used, likely spell check errors. One that I recall was the use of the phrase "slight of hand" instead of the proper "sleight of hand". There were way too many of the typical self published author writing errors for a really good book. They just constantly aggravated me. There are always going to be writing errors in works that are not properly edited, but the sheer number in this one hurt the book for me. In fairness, it is possible that at least some of these issues have been addressed in the Kindle edition.This book suffers from the same problems that the previous book in the series hadWhen The Bough Breaks (The Empire's Corps)that I also gave three stars to. As three star type books go, they are pretty good three star books, but at least for me they did not break out of the three star mold enough to get a better rating from me.It actually started out better but degenerated into more of the same. Super soldiers who are really, really good guys. At least in this one while there are some really, really bad, bad guys, there are also a lot of "bad" guys who are just caught up in the situation and are not really evil, just on the other side.The author is not asking a lot of money for his books, and I did enjoy reading both of them. If you go into it knowing that it is not great military SF but merely good, you probably won't be disappointed. You may well be disappointed if you believe the wildly enthusiastic reviews by his small group of fans though.The author has a primary character espousing the KISS idea on a regular basis, but the plot the good guys use to win the day is so convoluted and desperate that its chances of actual success would seem to be close to nil.There is a lot of jargon usage that seemed a little forced to me.