Title: One main interesting idea, but not worth the time
Review: This most interesting part of this book is the idea that in widely distributed space battles the limit of light speed makes tactical and strategic planning and direction difficult. You get all that in the first couple of chapters.Once you're done processing that the rest of the book is bad. The characters are predictable and one-dimensional, even given that their behavior is implausible, the 'science' is inconsistent, the tactics explored are uninteresting and implausible, and the larger conflict is also implausible given the actions of the characters in the book.I'd recommend avoiding this book. Instead read some Weber, Pournelle, Ringo, Resnick, Drake, Bujold, some of Heinlein's Mil SF, or even Scalzi. If you've already read all those then take a walk or watch a movie or some such instead of reading this book.The sequel is even worse.
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