Title: Idiocracy in space, without the humor
Review: This story had a pretty cool premise, but it totally fell flat. A military officer wakes up after 100 years and is put in charge of a fleet that's run by a bunch of whiny, stubborn morons straight out of a Dilbert strip (by the end of the story I started rooting for the other side, since so many of the "good guys" suck so badly and the bad guys are hardly flushed out at all). The plot is consumed by the hero's angst over frustrating personnel decisions and the overblown legend of his past deeds. Guess what--if the hero is constantly frustrated and annoyed, the reader is going to be constantly frustrated and annoyed.There were no twists to keep me on my toes; everything just got wrapped up with a big space battle that had virtually no tension. The story left me with no desire to pick up the next book in the series.
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