It’s one thing to say it and another to see that motivation demonstrated effectively in the novel. It’s not just a shoot ‘em up story, it’s about the men you fight with and we clearly see why he feels this way. What I liked was the main character, Sergeant Chhun, and why he fights and whom he fights for. You are of one of them as you feel the weariness and relief as the battle ends, you assess your casualties, check your supplies and figure out what your next step is. You personally experience fighting for each other, your loyalty towards one another and you are inducted into the Legionnaires by proxy as you read. The brotherhood of your fellow soldiers, bonded together and forged in battle, you don’t just become emotionally involved. You experience the recoil of the weapon in your hand, feel the heat of the battle sear your skin and smell the carnage around you as you face off against the enemy. Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy but how they adjust to each brutal engagement and try to win is part of the suspense.īy the time you’ve reached the end of the novel, you feel like you’ve served along with their forces, as the story immerses you so deeply into it. The strategy used to win these battles is multifaceted and fascinating as the problems multiply. You cannot help but feel your pulse race in these scenes, as your breath quickens and you move your head to avoid getting it shot off your shoulders, as I did while being engrossed by each page I read.Įach battle is different, each one presenting a different challenge for Victory Company to overcome and the quality of the writing here is where the author, Jason Anspach, shines the most. These scenes are intense and riveting, as we experience each struggle to survive through the eyes of Sergeant Chhun as he takes down one enemy after another while trying to avoid being killed. These battles are won by boots on the ground, developing strategies on the fly, working together as a team to take down the enemy. But this novel is more complex and layered than that simplistic description. It’s also easy to be desensitized to the violence on your screen as you blow away bad guys. Your typical genre novel can fall into the trap of feeling like a videogame, where you see a gun bounce around your screen as bad guys pop into and out of your field of vision. This is not just a straightforward story, as some military science fiction can be. Whether it’s against the natives, dealing with strange alliances, powerful weapons, surprise turnabouts and unexpected setbacks, they do their best to adapt and win. With each battle they engage in, we see why they are the best. This is proven repeatedly as they fight against odds that are stacked against them. Outfitted with custom armor, artificial intelligence in their form fitting helmets, they are a formidable fighting force to be reckoned with. The Legionnaires are elite soldiers for a reason, as one of them worth a hundred regular men with their training, tactics, and deadliness. When a tense situation erupts into violence, will they succeed in their mission or will they die trying? But there are rumblings that the Mid-Core Rebels are secretly supporting a sect of the Kublar forces. Venturing into hostile territory on their vehicles, they get twitchy when they see the natives gathering along their route. Ostensibly there to help make peace with the natives and broker an agreement for resource development, the soldiers are there to protect the Republic forces on this mission. The Legionnaires, an elite special fighting force, is sent as well. The Republic army is sending a bunch of its soldiers on a diplomatic mission to the planet of Kublar. Military sci-fi meets space opera in this world-spanning adventure.Book Title: Legionnaire – Galaxy’s Edge, Book 1Īvailable On: Amazon as an eBook, a hardcover and as a paperback or with his brothers still in the Legion. With a cloud of darkness growing and a planet pitched in war, Wraith must choose whether his true allegiances lie with himself. The pair soon discover that the man they both hunt is more powerful than either imagined. When a lucrative night market contract is offered directly to Wraith to hunt down an enigmatic warlord, the former legionnaire winds up on a galactic-wide search that brings him face to face with the galaxys most notorious bounty hunter, a living legend known as Tyrus Rechs. As he fights off pirates and double-crossing rebels, Keel comes to realize that the old lines between right and wrong have blurred as the Legion sinks further under the corrupting influence of the House of Reason and its points. Years have passed since the battle of Kublar, and Wraith is in deep cover for Legion Dark Ops, living a second life on the edge as an irreverent smuggler and bounty hunter under the alias of Captain Keel. Book Synopsis A threat looms at the edge of the galaxy.
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