Title: Ugh-Ugh!!!! Big War Chief!
Product review: I sympathize fully with the "Ugh!!!!" review. Over eighty percent of the book was wasted on incidental, humbuggery political machinations, and dripping with preadolescent kitty-'cat nonsense (I suppose to attract the preadolescent female readership here). The only good political machination that I enjoyed was at the end, when the enemy declared a truce to delay their buildup of a final offensive. But the swift ending felt cramped and I felt completely cheated. That ending could have happened within the first half of the book. Then it could have gone on to a mature conclusion worthy of the title and cover art enclosing this novel. But for now the book cover yields to an empty sense of puffery, a smidgen of self-importance, one that is not backed up in the skill of the writing of an interesting tale; in essence, it is an annoying little example of the publication house's latest feat of ledgerdemain -- one rife with tedious adolescent jiggery-pokery.
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