The idea seemed cool, but the execution was nothing to write home about. Performance was good, albeit a bit melodramatic.
The writing left something to be desired, juvenile character interaction and language, one-dimensional characters, an obvious storyline, horrible plot holes and nonsensical story decisions which are obviously intended to set up the analogy of this book to modern day mid-east politics in an extremely thinly veiled manner.
The book is a cliche of Starship Troopers and any bootcamp flick you’ve ever seen. It was also VERY hard to ignore the writer’s Mideast politics being shoved down your throat. I tried, god help me I tried. But this book reads like a love poem to the author’s own ethnic heritage. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much self aggrandizing in any book in my life.
I half expected the Israelis in the book to sprout wings and win the day with a golden sword and a heavenly light shining down on them as they rode a pegasus into battle, shedding one tear and killing the ‘Aliens’.
Maybe it wouldn’t have been as glaring if the book had other redeeming qualities… but nothing else was engaging – not the characters, not the tech, not the attempt at military customs, not even the action. Disappointing.