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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book had so much potential, the author keeps the plot ticking along, plenty of action, Some interesting ideas which are begun to be explored, and written in a style which is very readable and keeps the page turning. All the basics of a good book you would think. The problem comes with the jingoistic nature the author takes as regards to the US Marines. Don't get me wrong, the marines in the story are supposed to be the central line, but the author gets truly repetitive banging on again and again about how good the us marines are. Some talking about the basis of the star marines would have been cool, and how their history was based in the marines in the US, but every other page is, quite frankly inappropriate in a book which is set well out into the galaxy and earth is more or less irelivant 1000 years in the future.
It got the 3 stars because i think the author has talent if only he could get his head out of how wonderful the US marines are. It was never going to be a book on the level of Ian M Banks, but it would have been very entertaining as a light, high action novel. Cant say i will be buying any of his other books till i forget how irritated i got with this one wasting its potential.
It got the 3 stars because i think the author has talent if only he could get his head out of how wonderful the US marines are. It was never going to be a book on the level of Ian M Banks, but it would have been very entertaining as a light, high action novel. Cant say i will be buying any of his other books till i forget how irritated i got with this one wasting its potential.
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Put together with the other two books in this trilogy, it weaves a brilliant scheme of future space warfare. Some of the action is a slightly unbelievable tale, but then this is Sci-Fi after all. The technical detail is very good, I love the trilogy and would recommend it to others.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Semper Fi to the Stars!
25 Feb 2008
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I have read the previous two triologies, Heritage and Legacy. This is a great start to the new series. Mr. Douglas/Kieth has done it again.
Being a former Marine, I feel he captures the feel and attitude of the Marines he is writing about. He brings in the stress of combat and the aftermath into the forefront and does not make the characters supermen and women. He brings out the depth and emotion of what it feels like to be close to a small group of people. He also, for me at least, captures the antipathy and bigotry that Marines run into. He shows that the Marines are not killing machines but real people.
The universe he has created over the last six books is a very deep and rich one. It is not a perfect universe where everyone gets along and all push together. He brings out the competion that humans have and the conflicts that arise.
If you have not read the previous books, go back and read them. You will not be sorry. But you can pick this book up and will not be disappointed.
Being a former Marine, I feel he captures the feel and attitude of the Marines he is writing about. He brings in the stress of combat and the aftermath into the forefront and does not make the characters supermen and women. He brings out the depth and emotion of what it feels like to be close to a small group of people. He also, for me at least, captures the antipathy and bigotry that Marines run into. He shows that the Marines are not killing machines but real people.
The universe he has created over the last six books is a very deep and rich one. It is not a perfect universe where everyone gets along and all push together. He brings out the competion that humans have and the conflicts that arise.
If you have not read the previous books, go back and read them. You will not be sorry. But you can pick this book up and will not be disappointed.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Love it
11 Feb 2008
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There is a lot of plot refreshing and background explaining in the first third part of this book, all things that are known to those who read the first 6 books. But it playing hundreds of years after book 6 justifies some explaining and also opens up for a new readership of course. It essentially gets started with this new trilogy on how (hopefully) humanity destroys the Xul. I must say they are off to a good start with the help of a new alien race ally. The end of this book leaves taste for more and I can not wait for book 2 of this trilogy where things should get really interesting. Overall I love it and would recommend a new reader to get started with the very first book though: Semper Mars.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Good sequel and good start to new trilogy
8 Feb 2008
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The seventh Star Marine book by Ian Douglas benefits from many of the same strengths as the earlier books: well though-out future history; nice technological extrapolation; good action sequences. The plot seems a bit derivative of earlier books and the book could have used a good editor - there are continuity errors and it can be repetitive. That said, I really enjoyed it and will buy the rest of the trilogy. Douglas (William Keith) gets the military, writes in a gritty way and isn't afraid to tangle with one of the tougher issues of military sf: how advanced technology will effect the troops on the ground or how war is fought. The opening scene is a great riff on the first chapter of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, only grittier and brought up to date. Buy this, but read the ealier books in the series first.
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