Review: Hard Times Demand Hard Men
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
The good:  it's full of the slam-bang action the series is noted for, and the weapons, tactics and equipment are well and accurately depicted.  The evil are punished, the infected are driven back, and the scene is set for a fifth, and possibly sixth installment - which I will buy.The less good:  there's way too much of the Heinlein-esque 'expanded marriage/extended family' material, to the point where it detracts from the flow of the story and I found myself skipping over pages and pages of material looking for the action to start up again.The significantly less good:  the editing - hence the three-star rating.  To be fair, it's not as bad as some, but it IS chock-full of the same STUPID, basic errors (comma misuse, non-words SPELL CHECK should have caught [ex:'Emperial' instead of 'Imperial'], 'to' instead of 'too', 'apostrophe s' for plural, and sentence fragments galore) the author has been making since book one.  No, I'm not a grammar Nazi; I just don't think that it's unreasonable to expect that four books into the series (and at five bucks a pop for book four) the author should be putting out a more polished and higher-quality product.Frankly, the 'editor' should be ashamed to put his name on this work - seriously.Okay - bottom line:  objections aside, this is a helluva read.  If you've been following the series, you won't be disappointed.  If you're new to 'Blue Plague', read the other books in order - you won't be sorry.