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Hostile Planet
Sergeant Jerry Harper left the military nine years ago. He's just a landscaper now, not a soldier. He spends his days mowing lawns and his nights playing gigs with his band. It's a nice, steady life, and that's the way he likes it.
That steady life is interrupted when a colonel from military intelligence shows up. Jerry's old war buddy, Brandon Woods, has gone missing, and the colonel is assembling a motley group of rescuers. He wants Jerry to join the team.
Jerry owes Brandon his life, so he agrees to help. He travels to another planet and soon finds himself mired in interstellar politics. There's something psychological going on, too, a legacy of his last battle nine years ago. Finding Brandon is challenging enough by itself, but now those secrets from the past threaten to drive Jerry insane. He hopes he can grab his friend and get out without attracting too much attention, and he certainly doesn't want to risk starting another war. But he's on a hostile planet now, and it won't give Brandon up without a fight.
That steady life is interrupted when a colonel from military intelligence shows up. Jerry's old war buddy, Brandon Woods, has gone missing, and the colonel is assembling a motley group of rescuers. He wants Jerry to join the team.
Jerry owes Brandon his life, so he agrees to help. He travels to another planet and soon finds himself mired in interstellar politics. There's something psychological going on, too, a legacy of his last battle nine years ago. Finding Brandon is challenging enough by itself, but now those secrets from the past threaten to drive Jerry insane. He hopes he can grab his friend and get out without attracting too much attention, and he certainly doesn't want to risk starting another war. But he's on a hostile planet now, and it won't give Brandon up without a fight.
- GenresScience Fiction
317 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 10, 2017
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November 24, 2019
Has good beginning then turns into mindless video game plot
The initial battle scene is gripping, and the storyline of rescuing a former soldier-pal after he goes missing is somewhat intriguing. However, the addition of a varied crew of aliens to the rescue mission devolves into cliche bantering, lots of sexual objectification and references to sexual prowess, and then into endless brawls, shoot-em-up, slash, chop, decapitation scenes with pools of blood everywhere. With about that much description. It’s just one cartoon-like fight scene after another with very little emotional connection to the missing pal or between the alien team members, and there’s minuscule believable motivation for the characters to go from one killing spree scene to another. I gave up 78% of the way through the book. It just got too ridiculous. ‘Let’s walk into this room full of naked sexy enemies and chop them up and then go into the cafeteria and shoot up everyone there. Why? Because barging into a room full of enemy soldiers is a great way to find someone who’s missing!’ Just too stupid. Very disappointing after such a promising start.
The initial battle scene is gripping, and the storyline of rescuing a former soldier-pal after he goes missing is somewhat intriguing. However, the addition of a varied crew of aliens to the rescue mission devolves into cliche bantering, lots of sexual objectification and references to sexual prowess, and then into endless brawls, shoot-em-up, slash, chop, decapitation scenes with pools of blood everywhere. With about that much description. It’s just one cartoon-like fight scene after another with very little emotional connection to the missing pal or between the alien team members, and there’s minuscule believable motivation for the characters to go from one killing spree scene to another. I gave up 78% of the way through the book. It just got too ridiculous. ‘Let’s walk into this room full of naked sexy enemies and chop them up and then go into the cafeteria and shoot up everyone there. Why? Because barging into a room full of enemy soldiers is a great way to find someone who’s missing!’ Just too stupid. Very disappointing after such a promising start.
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