This is really a book for SciFi fans of military or war deep space scenarios. We have a military unit full of rookies, which are not a team at all. And of course, they grow fond of each other during their first, desastrous missions and campaigns. There are other units who look down on them, but of course the plot gets rid of the other units to focus on the greenhorns, who grow together and win. And they win only because of how they do their stuff and because their hearts are at the right place bla bla and so on.

Yet even if the structure is clear, the action is satisfyingly tense and fact-paced and one turns the pages as fast as possible.

I was looking for exactly this and got what I wanted.