Apr. 22nd, 2009

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The Myriad (Tour of the Merrimack, Book 1) The Myriad by R.M. Meluch


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rating: 3 of 5 stars
U.S. marines and the reborn Roman Empire . . . in spaaaaaaace! Oh, and there's a creepy alien threat, but I'm mostly just thinking about the U.S./Rome thing. And I punctuate that very advisedly, by the way.



Compulsively readable space opera (I plowed through the entire four-book series in a week). They're that weird thing where they keep being smarter than expected, with interesting ideas and great dialogue, but then as soon as you're complacent about that some of the rampant misogyny comes around and slaps you in the face. I mean . . . yowza. But that notwithstanding, I'd have read about that squad of marines and the gay Roman psychosadist agent for a long time.




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