Rubicon

Had a hard time getting into this one. Decent enough story and the premise is very interesting, kind of a mix of elements from Battelstar Galactica and Old Man's War. Very little background to the universe, why it is in the situation it is in so it is hard to care much about what happens. Just didn't work for me. Too bad because I like Dewes' other work.

Rubicon is a fun, quick read about an "immortal" soldier, her fancy combat suit, and the snarky AI in her brain. The book reads like a novelization of a military sci-fi FPS video game, complete with a combat scene that features the protagonist's squad facing off against a large boss creature after fighting off a bunch of smaller critters. I'm not complaining—this is exactly the sort of book I was looking for as a short break between longer series—but if there was a video game version, I'd probably recommend that you just play that instead.