Terms of Enlistment

, #1

by

Paperback, 334 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2014 by 47North.

ISBN:
978-1-4778-0978-5
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OCLC Number:
871219457

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3 stars (1 review)

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: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health care come at a steep price.

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reviewed Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos (Frontlines, #1)

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3 stars

Just barely squeezing into three stars. A very generic military science-fiction novel that seems to have no soul, nothing interesting to say and a main character with all the depth of a piece of cardboard.
The story feels like your really basic video game / late night improvised RPG scenario where everything is second-hand. There's a lot of detail but it doesn't cohere into a whole.

It's written competently enough, and the last part changes gears completely, ending the book a sequel hook more blatant than seen in ages. And yet, I find myself kind of interested to see what might happen next.

Subjects

  • Poor
  • Welfare recipients
  • Fiction
  • Space warfare
  • Tenement houses
  • Life on other planets
  • Space colonies
  • Dystopias
  • Armed Forces

Places

  • North America