[BT] MW:DA #29 - The Last Charge, by Jason M. Hardy - 2.5/4 stars

[Tim Skirvin]

_The Last Charge_ is the most focussed of the MW:DA novels for a
while. readily summed up in two paragraphs or so. This makes the book
somewhat difficult to review without spoilers, so I'll leave it to one
sentence of background:

The Marik-Stewart Commonwealth stands at the brink of destruction, as
three overwhelming military forces (two Lyran, one Wolf) continue to
press their already-overwhelming invasion into the former Free Worlds
League.

The players are fairly one-dimensional, perhaps worrisomely so,
especially in light of previous novels where they were much more rounded
and interesting. Anson Marik is a bully of a leader; Vedet Brewster is
an overbearing, incompetent military leader; Alaric Wolf is overwhelmingly
militarily competent; and so forth. And the story is one dimensional as
well, telling the simple story of the fall of a few planets and some hit-
and-run tactics. But they play against each other fairly well; and out of
that, there is a story worth reading, at least for the Battletech fan.

** 1/2

- Tim Skirvin (tski...@killfile.org)
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