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Description: A Soldier's Duty : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780441020638 : 0441020631 : 03 Nov 2011 : The national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series brings her wildly entertaining (Jayne Ann Krentz) imagination to science fiction in a brand-new series. Original.

 

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Author: Damian Lunt

Rating: 5

Review: Wow, David Drake has some competition at last, the character stands tall (and bloody) on her own two legs, the pace is fast, the story in gripping, i can not wait to see her in action again....

 

Author: User_061

Rating: 3

Review: Turning a traditional space marines yarn into a save-the-galaxy prophecy could have made for an interesting series. However, the main character is an inhumanly perfect cypher who might as well be replaced by a robot for all the empathy she engenders. The author introduced a couple of plot devices to create mystery and counteract the extremely detailed and accurate foreknowledge available to the heroine, but I felt these were not taken far enough. Following some of the side characters who got tangled up in the web of the prophecy would have been interesting. In fact, given that there is a very large galaxy out there to save, far too much time was spent tunnel visioning on the main character's military career, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. I enjoyed the book somewhat, but it lacked depth and feeling.

 

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