So I don’t usually leave reviews. I will say up front I’m an audio scifi nerd. Red Rising. ExFor. Bob. Leviathan. Frontlines. The list goes on. To set up where I’m coming from.
Two types of reviews almost prevented me from this masterpiece. They can be cataloged into “too much God” and “Daddy issues character.” Neither of those are my cup of tea. But the book was free for me and I was out of series. And those reviews were entirely incorrect.
Let’s tackle God first. So the two things I read a lot were that it was too much god and too much the Christian god. Let’s tackle the last first. MINOR MAYBE SPOILER (probably not tho). The two main groups comes from a single geographic area. From that area, it makes sense that some of the characters are Christian. Key word for part two, some. The main character is anti-God from the start and only in that sort of way war makes you became sorta religious. But there’s no God vs. Allah or anything I thought there would be. It’s a light sprinkling of a higher power type stuff that fits right in for a desperate tale like this. It’s not overly or overt. It’s exactly what you expect from a realistic situation.
As for daddy issues, I can’t even. If you read Frontline series and know Andrew Grayson, that’s the level of daddy issues here. A father figure who shaped one of the main characters life that he tries to do right by. Which is entirely understandable when you know that characters story. It’s not overboard. It’s exactly right.
This was such a surprising and great book. Honestly it’s going in the list at the start. I already have books two and three. 10/10.