Status Updates From Life During Wartime

Finally! We're getting some actual background about the war.

Shepard tends to get so enamoured by his own descriptions that he forgets there's a plot waiting to happen. This entire section following the original R&R short-story, The Good Soldier, has a completely distasteful indulgence in describing the state of women's breasts. Easy to dismiss as character development, but sadly, most of it was unnecessary and ended up giving me a distasteful look into the author's mind.