The Ghost Brigades

Short review: I like Scalzi as a writer. He is entertaining and interesting. But he also can by cynical and dark. It has been five years since I read the first book. I skipped to books 5 and 6 and then returned to book 2. I probably should have re-read book one, but I didn't. So it took me a little while to remember what I needed to remember.

The plot is fine, but the story of the books is mostly that leaders and institutions are all bad and that the only ones that are good are the occasional low level grunt. Everyone else is either trying to destroy things or allows things to be destroyed to keep their power in place.

Hard to recommend, even if the writing is good.

my full review is on my blog at http://wp.me/p1pu8r-czi