![]() ![]() It's a minor nitpick that Kloos tends to use language very repetitively, using the exact same words/phrase to describe a thing over and over again, but not so much I wouldn't have kept reading if he had managed to capture my interest better. ![]() ![]() I never felt confused about what was going on. There's no phraseology here to make me swoon, but he communicates lucidly and with a good sense of visual/spatial dynamics, which is pretty crucial for SF in general and MilSF in particular. With some weird Othering of women and Blacks thrown in for lagniappe. What it is, is a pretty bog-standard Military SF book, without enough world-building, characterization or plain old charisma to motivate me to keep going. But it's not good enough to keep my interest and it's not bad enough to trigger my train-wreck syndrome. If it were a better book, or if it were a more hilariously bad book, I'd probably be more inclined to stick with it. Which is, in and of itself, a sticking point. Terms of Enlistment isn't a terrible book. Well, while I made it past the point where my reading pal (my husband) quit Terms of Enlistment (36% on Kindle, compared to his 24%), I'm also giving up the ghost on this book. ![]()
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