indigo_rose99

I have no idea who recommended this book to me. However it came to my attention, it is.... strange. Fun, but strange. Wonderful world building. Pretty much the whole book felt like world building to me. Less of a plot or a story and more just world building.

Military fantasy, told from the point of view of the captain. I spent the entire book wondering what gender the captain was. I only noticed because the captain has no name and when I try to describe the book to others it becomes awkward to keep saying "the captain" instead of any pronouns. The lack of name was as sneaky as the lack of pronouns.

My first impression of the first chapter was "I'm going to have to reread this silly thing once I figure out what the devil they are all talking about, because none of this makes sense!" One reviewer struck me as hilarious once I'd finished it, "If David Weber's endless infodumps make you want to scream, this might be the military fantasy for you." Yeah. No infodumps here. No context. No explanation. Just a shove straight to the bottom of the deep end. A recommendation from T led me to a wikipedia page with a table explaining military units of people (how many people in a squad, brigade, battalion, artillery battery, etc.) that reduced my feeling of drifting lost among words. Not reduced by a lot, but it helped.

All that said, I really enjoyed it. I'm probably going to do that reread. My liking for the book led me to read the 2nd one (reviewers accuse it of having no plot). And the 3rd book (I'm afraid to read the reviews until I finish it).