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Bryan Thomas Schmidt
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The Clockwork Dagger
Progress:
120/360 pages
The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever
The Road to Science Fiction 1
A Broken Christmas
The Ultra Thin Man
Progress:
174/334 pages
The Broken Eye
The Dark Between the Stars
Oath of Fealty
The Road to Science Fiction 2: From Wells to Heinlein
Gust Front (Posleen War Series #2)
3.5 stars. Ringo tried to do too much here for my taste. He got sidetracked in the middle on side characters with a battle none of our mains were involved in and never really got his focus back. It's powerfully written and his battle scenes are well done but the character arcs and emotional lines suffered for it. Perhaps his goal was to represent the chaos of war. If so, he succeeded, but even the death of the protagonist's family member at the end was not as emotionally powerful as expected for me because we had lost touch with the characters we'd invested so much in during the first third of the book. The first book in this series was quite strong. So much so that I went out and bought every book in the series, including two side series which are related. I still plan to read on but hope the focus in later books is more like that of the first. That said, Ringo is top notch at what he does. This just felt a bit too much like unfocused Tom Clancy years to me.
 - John Ringo)