Columbus Day by Craig Alanson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was frankly just hoping for some long-range SF with higher scope and action, and I suppose there's some of that here, seeing a few new planets and Earth a few times, but this is, at its core, a Mil-SF series.

I won't get into it, but it has all the see new places, kill new people feel. And just because the aliens are all asshats, it doesn't make us any less of one, either.

Fast forward, I was getting a little worn out by the frankly slightly dull mil-life of being shuffled about, made a mushroom, and having nothing greater than dumb luck to help you survive. It wasn't until a certain beer can showed up that I really started getting into the book.

Sure, a snarky companion always livens things up, and this whole addition is ALL trope at this point, but I still enjoyed it. The series may never be my go-to, but it IS enjoyable enough to want to see where it leads.

Adventure. I miss a good adventure.


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