{"id":3155,"date":"2017-08-26T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2017-08-26T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T20:57:16","slug":"review-terms-of-enlistment-by-marko-kloos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/review-terms-of-enlistment-by-marko-kloos\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Terms of Enlistment’ by Marko Kloos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. Military Sci-fi. Not something I would ever choose for myself, but I\u2019ll try anything once. This is a mega-seller, so it must be hitting the spot for a lot of people. I have no point of comparison, but it seems to me like a well-written book of its type.The world-building is superb, and I never once doubted any aspect of it. The military stuff – well, if you like blow-by-blow battles, lots of explosions and guns and general mayhem of the blowing-stuff-up category, and a succession of we\u2019re-all-doomed moments – this book is for you.<\/p>\n

The characters? Not much depth, and to be honest I didn\u2019t much care if any of them lived or died, even the hero. There was a love interest of sorts, but not a romance by any stretch of the imagination. But really, that\u2019s not what it\u2019s all about. It\u2019s the set-piece battles that are the stars of the show, that and the technology, and both are very well described without ever being boring or two over-the-top melodramatic. This is a book about a vividly-created future world, every element of it utterly believable, and the dramatic shenanigans that one fairly ordinary recruit finds himself in. If you like military sci-fi, I\u2019m guessing that you\u2019ll love this book. It\u2019s really not my cup of tea, but despite that, I finished it without effort. Three stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. Military Sci-fi. Not something I would ever choose for myself, but I\u2019ll try anything once. This is a mega-seller, so it must be hitting the spot for a lot of people. I have no point of comparison, but it seems to me like a well-written book of its type.The world-building is superb, and I never once doubted any aspect of it. The military stuff – well, if you like blow-by-blow battles, lots of explosions and guns and general mayhem of the blowing-stuff-up category, and a succession of we\u2019re-all-doomed moments – this book is for you. The characters? Not much depth, and to be honest I didn\u2019t much care if any of them lived or died, even the hero. There was a love interest of sorts, but not a romance by any stretch of the imagination. But really, that\u2019s not what it\u2019s all about. It\u2019s the set-piece battles that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}