Reviews and Comments

I find it very funny that the hunter-killer following the ship can't make up its mind whether the captain at the helm is an idiot or genius, because every time Sierka makes a dumb move Ballin saves the day with brilliant strategies and tactics. So they just don't know what to expect.

I can't talk to my wife about this anymore, she feels like I'm telling her too much in case she wants to read it. This book... I'm really enjoying reading it, but some of it so frustrating.

I don't know if this is a common trope, but I feel like I've seen it before. The main character is always right, but his superiors never listen to him, in most of the book I've read so far, even outright dislike him. Seems very "the common man is right, rich aristocrats with honorary titles don't know what they're doing"

The main character (York) keeps following orders, even though on several occasions now his superiors have let him down. He's lost a leg, an eye, and an arm following orders. He's been abandoned on an enemy planet. He's been denied cover fire. His commanding officer has preferred to let him and about 60-odd marines die over saving him out of spite.

It's nice that he's building such a loyal following. The marines he was put in charge of have become really loyal after their first drop. But it's still strange that he and his marines are the only ones who are maintaining any kind of discipline and order on the ship.

People keep asking him to mutiny (his fellow officers, rich civilians (we'll make sure you don't get executed, we'll have a high-paying job waiting for you after), even the empress) and he just won't do it. At least now the empress has committed and officially made York captain.

I'd like him more if he wasn't so willing to drink too much every single chance he gets. Not that he's not likeable.