Bowden P. (Trey) - , reviewed Not bad... on 5/5/2009 + 260 more book reviews

I read this last night while looking for a bit of SF from my collection of unread books. And honestly, its not bad. Its a 'hardish' military space opera where our protagonist (and viewpoint character) enlists in the Colonial Defense Forces at the age of 75 (a standard thing for them) and goes off to see the universe, meet interesting aliens and kill them in job lots.

And, oh yeah, he gets a 20 year old body that is substantially more capable than a baseline human...

Likes: Neat technology, great character voices and personality, interesting world building, the logical weirdness of the Ghost Brigades, alien aliens.

Dislikes: Not sure I buy the motivation for combat, questions about how the Colonial Union came to be, got the monopoly on star travel, and how they govern themselves.

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