Terms of Enlistment

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Published May 26, 2015 by Brilliance Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-4915-9307-3

(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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dare reviewed Terms of enlistment by Marko Kloos

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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.