The High Ground

A nicely engaging military academy story, which Snodgrass calls "merely the first act in my five-act drama." So, lots still to come as the characters leave the academy, The High Ground, and proceed to the next stage of their lives. Although the story itself is pretty basic, ultimately I liked both th......more

It started well enough, though it was so YA. Nothing wrong with that, but I really feel like this should not be marked adult. Nothing makes it so. They act like 14 year olds. We see them at school, soccer game, bullying. Make them 20, make it adult, or make them actually 14. I felt that the book was......more

Is like GOT, but in space. Co-edited by GRRM. But less gruesome, more for youths. Still gruesome though. I think not v highly rated because the story is quite linear, and very standard tropes like academy, bully battle, invasion, betrayal. Can see some GOT-level politiking here as well. I guess GRRM......more

I'm grateful to the publisher for an advance copy of this book. Six hundred years in the future, enabled by the discovery of how to fold space, humanity has spread out across the Galaxy. Old Earth is abandoned, a violent, inhospitable place, its climate ruined, and of interest only to eccentrics and......more

Not bad, but not different This is a very well written book. The problem is that it's a well-written book that hits every expected beat dead-on and never veers away. From the generic future setting with nobles, where humanity went out into the stars, found all sorts of aliens that just happened to be......more