Now that we'd gotten to know the hero and what he's up against, instead of showing how he surmounts the odds, we have to start all over again with a handsome, clever, and strong but self-serving pirate whose mission is to betray the nice geeky mad scientist. Switching to the pirate's point of view was both jarring and disappointing. Pacing was lackadaisical in the beginning, but really hit its stride in the battles. The secondary characters, for the most part, fell into neat tropes. The main characters, a warrior and a pirate, didn't have deep feelings-nor were they terribly unique. I liked the writing: descriptive, fast, action sequences and complex tactics-which is what military sci-fi is all about-and crisp dialogue. The science was never explained to my satisfaction-in fact, the science of Transit was never explained. Military sci-fi w/powered armor suits and mindless giant ants.
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