It leaves a very interesting scenario for book 2 – which I’m really looking forwards to.
Without spoiling anything, the decision Butler makes at the end was quite a risk for Mammay to take, but I loved it. I didn’t notice until about halfway that it was 1st person past tense (a combination I generally don’t like, more proof of how well written it was!). I felt utterly pulled into his thoughts, like I was experiencing it all alongside him, sharing his frustrations and feeling my own breathing elevate in the combat scenes. Not many sci-fi books trust their audience enough to give them the time to work it out. Near the end, my mind was a page or two ahead on the consequences, which only excited me more for the ending.īutler’s POV comes across so strongly. I loved that, thanks to my science background, I was often able to piece the puzzle together before the explanation*. Of course, somethings are explained, particularly anything technical. He’s not talking down the reader or insulting their intelligence. Mammay doesn’t spoon feed the details – I had to assemble the pieces at times. This is not a book to read if you want to tune out rather than think or contribute. Some people are saying the end comes along too fast, but I liked it – it really forced me to be alert and work out the puzzle myself. The planetside chapters are the most intense action wise, conveying a sharp sense of chaos and immersing the reader into being in the middle of a combat situation. The central mystery drives the book forwards at a pace. At it’s heart, this book is a thriller in a military sci-fi setting. The sci-fi element of this book is the setting. There was the odd ‘concept that’s only theory/initial research right now’ extrapolated into the future but nothing that required a suspension of disbelief. To my joy, there was nothing glaring wrong here. I usually struggle with sci-fi, screaming and tearing out my hair at the incorrect science. Someone is using the war as cover, and the answers are planetside – if he can survive long enough to find them.
The hospital commander won’t cooperate, radar data goes missing, the Special Ops leaders refuses to come off planet and witnesses disappear – all before he even encounters the enemy. Why would a routine investigation be given to him months before retirement?Īrriving at the base orbiting a war-torn planet, Butler finds it to be full of secrets and sabotage. When Carl Butler, a semi-retired Colonel, is sent to the far reaches of the galaxy to investigate a missing officer, he knows something big is going on – something he’s not being told. On the surface, it seems simple enough – find out what happened to a councillor’s son who was wounded and evacuated but never arrived.
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