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finished reading The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren (Simon Kovalic #1;Galactic Cold War #0)

Dan Moren: The Caledonian Gambit (2017, Talos Press/Skyhorse Publishing) 4 stars

The galaxy is mired in a cold war between two superpowers, the Illyrican Empire and …

I tried to like it, but I struggled to keep reading.

It’s labelled as a sci-fi book, but really only about 1% was. The rest could have been a standard spy story on normal Earth.

It didn’t help that the main protagonist was mostly clueless and fairly pathetic, and he was aided by cliché ex-soldier spies.

Overall, I’ve come out a little bit annoyed by the book.