Okay, I guess I should know better by now. I can deal with science fiction that is relatively straight forward - just ordinary folks in a future time, but otherwise pretty easy to digest. But I just can't get into these twisty far out science fiction novels, like say [b:Ancillary Justice|17333324|Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)|Ann Leckie|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1597476110l/17333324.SY75.jpg|24064628]. And to that list you can add The Light Brigade. It just isn't for me.

Not to say it didn't start out promising. Much like [b:Old Man's War|36510196|Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)|John Scalzi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1509467059l/36510196.SY75.jpg|50700] or [b:The Forever War|21611|The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)|Joe Haldeman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386852511l/21611.SY75.jpg|423], it was a military sci-fi. But then the protagonist made the first jump and everything went sideways, both for her and for me. Time travel, revolution, torture, you name it. I read another 150 pages and still had little idea what was going on.

As I said in my review for Ancillary Justice, it's not the book, it is me. I just can't seem to follow these "far out" science fiction novels. I had another 100 pages but felt I wasn't having fun and life's too short, so I will just move on. I am surely in the minority here (even more so for Ancillary Justice) so please, if trippy time traveling sci-fi is your bag, go for it!