Terms of Enlistment
2013 • 10 pages
Ratings38
Average rating3.9
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Ratings38
Average rating3.9
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health care come at a steep price.
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8 primary books10 released booksFrontlines is a 10-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Marko Kloos.
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i wasn't expecting the main character of this to be a wife guy but i was lowkey into it
Review d'origine : Un très bon livre de SF militaire qui annonce du bon pour cette série. On a pas le temps de s'ennuyer et on finit presque par avoir de la peine pour ce pauvre Grayson contre qui le destin semble s'acharner.
Relecture : Rien à redire de plus par rapport à la dernière fois. J'apprécie toujours autant ce que j'ai lu et je vais enchainer la suite avec un grand plaisir !
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Original review: A very good military SF book which bodes well for this series. We don't have time to be bored and we almost end up feeling sorry for poor Grayson against whom fate seems to be working hard.
Rereading: Nothing more to say compared to the last time. I still really enjoy what I've read and I'm going to read the rest with great pleasure !
Great military sci fi. I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of detail and world building put into everything. Each new scene was so well built i could see the buildings and that layout of the place.
So, probably some day the author read Starship Troopers and watched Blackhawk Down and thought: hey,why don't I narrate them together in writing? So, 0 originality points and 0 imagination/innovation points out of 5.
BUT.
I absolutely loved the ride (I have read Starship Troopers many times and will do it again, watched Blackhawk Down even more times and will watch it again) and also appreciated how well the author balances everything, from the excellent, functional writing to the action / non-action ratio,the losses to survival ratio and the believable to “lucky main character”.
I will definitely read the rest of the series and consider myself a Kloos fan from now on.
Also, basic training was point on, most of it fitted perfectly into my own memories about it :)
So far, I find this the best military scifi I have read, except Heinlein.
