Rebels In Arms

Scott St. Andrew #2

by Ben Weaver

A former colonist, Scott St. Andrew escaped his hellish mining home by joining the Guard Corps and entering the most intense training program in the military. When war broke out between the Terran Alliance and the Seventeen worlds, he was forced to choose between the two warring factions—and two codes of honour. Now Guard Corps Captain St. Andrew faces his first command—to retake the South Point Academy on the hellish moon Exeter where he trained only a year before. But the alien technology that makes St. Andrew one of the elite is faulty; he will die unless he is reconditioned properly. And only the Wardens—a secret alliance staging a coup d'etat against the Seventeen—have access to the conditioning. In the theatre of war that ensues, Captain St. Andrew faces his most difficult decision—obey the Corps' code of honour and die slowly, or join the Wardens and live?

Genres: Science Fiction, Ebooks

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Ben Weaver is a pseudonym used by
Peter Telep

Reviews

[Charles Hamel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a very good book! it was a little hard to get into but I think that might have just been me.

[Scott Holstad · Rating 1 out of 5]

I gave this book a shot, but ultimately I was left disinterested. I read until page 86, but I just couldn't buy into it. The whole time I was reading, I was thinking "Now why did the author write this or do that," etc and I couldn't get into the world that the author was trying to construct. It just didn't do it for me. I had a hard time believing that hundreds of thousands of Alliance troops were invading the Academy and the battle scenes just weren't believable to me. Likewise the Wardens. What the heck is that about? Too much left unsaid. Don't wait until halfway through the book to fill your reader in on stuff like that. I'm afraid I just can't recommend this book.

[Papal Bull · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was not very good. It was too chaotic and without any coherent plot.