Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines #1) - (Frontlines, book 1)

Marko Kloos

47North

2014

346 páginas

11h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781477809785

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:

You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service.

With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep priceand that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.

Resenhas (2)

3 (Bom)

Um bom clichê

O primeiro livro é bem lugar comum, com pitadas de sargentos de treinamento, starship troopers e Falcão negro em perigo.
Os personagens não relativamente rasos e caricatos, mas carismáticos o suficiente para que possam ser melhores trabalhados na sequência.
A escrita do autor é clara e ele consegue descrever e construir cenas de combate claras e empolgantes, muito importante em sci-fi militarista.