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Title: Disappointing would be an understatement
Review: I never write reviews, but this new book by Bills was so frightfully depressing for an old battletech fan that I had to write something. I've followed battletech books since I was a kid, and have basically bought and read every battletech novel since the Sword and the Dagger.Heretic's Faith was convoluted, lacking direction, and left one very unsatisfied with the rather unclimatic end. While there was the nice touch of Minoru Kurita, I think Bills over-reached in this attempt, which resulted in a pretty un-battletech-like book. No good combat sequences, glimpses but no decent overview of the political and strategic objectives and success of the involved powers, and a disappearance from the clean-cut technological warfare that raises battletech above the other sci-fi and fantasy books out there.All of Bills' published battletech work prior to this has been pretty good and hopefully we can return to that in his next novel.
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