![]() ![]() An immortal, all powerful, all knowing AI shows up just randomly and is like "i'm going to help you!". Unfortunately, the author just chose to fix that issue by writing in the most blatant ex machina I've seen in a book in years. ![]() ![]() I stuck with it for a while because at one point things start going really bad for the human army, and I couldn't think of how they'd get out so I thought it might get really interesting from there. Nothing about these races/militaries/etc are interesting. The human/American soldiers are all flawless, heroic and have no moral ambiguity. The main issue I had was that the alien races are so clearly based on tropes - the bad aliens are basically just Nazis (even compared to Nazi's over and over again), the good aliens are super nice and reasonable throughout the book, even when they're on the other side. So, overall the writing is at least somewhat interesting - there are some funny moments and if you like hearing "diary of a soldier" type stories I guess it's interesting, but from there that's all the novel really has going for it. ![]() The consensus was that it was a super fun novel that starts out as a pretty standard military scifi story but then get's really interesting as some bigger scifi elements are introduced halfway through the book. Picked up this novel because I haven't read any good military scifi in a while, and the reviews on Audible and comments on reddit were generally very positive. ![]()
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