First to Fight

First to Fight - David Sherman, Dan Cragg This book is yet another marine story starting at boot camp. I do not know why but these stories seem to be much more popular than the ones that focus on tech and starships. A shame since I like the latter much more.

Anyway, this is a fairly good book. It’s a not too complicated story about a marine, his first training and his first mission. Naturally there has to be the usual clueless, dumbass officer in there that doesn’t know what he’s doing but thinks he does. Fortunately he gets properly dealt with which increases my rating of this book. I hate it when the author lets the morons win or get off the hook because they are politically connected or something. Luckily these authors do not.

As a part of the initial story setup, there’s also the, equally obligatory, dumbass civilian contractor that thinks he can screw the marines by supplying shitty equipment. He also gets some of what he deserves although he does get off a wee bit easy for my liking.

One review said that the book is “full of swear words, bad themes, and gore”. I do not think it’s that full of it but, it is a marine story. I’m quite happy that the authors didn’t stoop to the, all too common, practice of being politically correct and introduce some new silly word(s) instead of the normal foul ones.

A good start of a series but then, I have said that before and been quite disappointed after the first book. We’ll see how it goes with this one. I will read the next one for sure.