I’ve been reading his blog for awhile (have gotten some great recommendations from it) so I decided to try out his (from a while ago) debut.

It felt sooooo familiar that I kept checking my lists over and over to see if I had read it before and finally I realized that it was just really (REALLY) reminding me of Haldeman’s The Forever War. The difference for me being that it doesn’t have the strong underlying anti- (or “futility of”) war message. i.e., This one is more about the surface story.

Decently written but the dialogue felt very stiff to me. One of the blurbs inside calls it “The Forever War with better sex.”

I think I’ll like sequel The Ghost Brigades better, when I get around to that one, as that’s the part of this story that interested me the most.