Terms of Enlistment

, #1

by

Paperback, 334 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2014 by 47North.

ISBN:
978-1-4778-0978-5
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OCLC Number:
871219457

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4 stars (1 review)

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health care come at a steep price.

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reviewed Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos (Frontlines, #1)

Wow, intense!

4 stars

This book progressed a little slow in the beginning as the author describes life in the military from basic training. It picked up intensity as our main character finds his first combat and possibly some life and death events... but then we see the perspective of life in the interstellar navy which end up being an insane battle! This is a purely military-space drama and action-filled adventure and I can't wait to read the next book!

Subjects

  • Poor
  • Welfare recipients
  • Fiction
  • Space warfare
  • Tenement houses
  • Life on other planets
  • Space colonies
  • Dystopias
  • Armed Forces

Places

  • North America