The Hot Gate

by John Ringo

399 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2011 by Baen Books, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:: 978-1-4391-3432-0
OCLC Number:: 646113099

(8 reviews)

Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.

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Wetdryvac reviewed The Hot Gate by John Ringo (Troy Rising, #3)

Review of 'The hot gate' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I really like Ringo's writing style. I really like his plotting style. Both were present in this. However.

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to shag Kipling's The White Man's Burden into the sunset before, and it's decidedly not a pretty thing. The solid writing was there. The solid plotting was there. It just kept - repeatedly - licking the notion that cultures not American were lesser, and doing so in ways that crossed some pretty hard lines.

I would like to think that this got fixed beyond the Advanced Reader's Copy that I ended up with, but that was some pretty seriously baked in racist crap.

BillieCodes reviewed The Hot Gate by John Ringo (Troy Rising, #3)

Review of 'The hot gate' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I couldn't finish it though, as the book is pretty racist, and that made me feel fairly uncomfortable.

Generally the story was okay - ignoring the racism. The Citadel was an improvement in writing - with more than just 'murican conservative good old boys in the story, but this was a big regression - constantly insulting non-us cultures, to the point that I felt so uncomfortable I had to stop.