Terms of enlistment

by Marko Kloos

334 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2014

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

(6 reviews)

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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Gary reviewed Terms of enlistment by Marko Kloos

Wow, intense!

4 stars

This book progressed a little slow in the beginning as the author describes life in the military from basic training. It picked up intensity as our main character finds his first combat and possibly some life and death events... but then we see the perspective of life in the interstellar navy which end up being an insane battle! This is a purely military-space drama and action-filled adventure and I can't wait to read the next book!

Trae reviewed Terms of enlistment by Marko Kloos

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4 stars

I'm a bit upset, I didn't start this book sooner. It is fun and well paced. The story is nothing groundbreaking, but a great read through a military based futuristic thread.

I have to admit though, after a great ground campaign. Some tense escape scenes, I was actually a little let down by the final sequence. It wasn't that it was lacking in pace or anything, just disappointed it went straight for the alien race more advanced than us and in that advanced race, no one stopped to ask if there could be any coexistence. That trope is a bit tiring, but I will definitely pick up the rest of these and give them a go.