Picking Up The Pieces Martial Law Book 2 eBook Christopher Nuttall
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It is two years after the fall of the UN released the planet Svergie from bondage, yet all is not well. The government is on the verge of breaking apart between competing factions, Communist groups are preparing a mass uprising and the countryside is planning to secede from the rest of the planet. The tinder is ready; all it needs is for some idiot to light the match…
Captain-General Andrew Nolte and his Legion of the Dispossessed, a band of interstellar mercenaries, have been hired to train a proper army for Svergie, an army that might bind the planet together. Powerful forces are gathering to oppose the Legion, however, and Andrew has a cause of his own…
Picking Up The Pieces Martial Law Book 2 eBook Christopher Nuttall
I enjoyed the first half dozen Ark Royal books. But this. This. Just Awful. Cardboard one-dimensional characters moving through a hackneyed plot, supported by constant moralizing about the destructive nature of the welfare state. The device of inserting paragraphs from other fictional works can work, but it needs to add something to the chapter which it introduces. These entries appear to be primarily exposition and/or filler. When Suki betrays the good good guys, I was shocked, shocked to discover gambling on the premises. No spoiler alert necessary. You'll likely have if figured out before I did, and worse, you won't care. The coup de grace is Nutall's lack of care; this is not even a very good first draft. Your readers deserve better Chris, and so do you. You are now making a living writing which makes you a PROFESSIONAL. Part of the profession which you HAVE CHOSEN TO ENTER, is that you provide your readers, at a minimum, with coherent stories, properly edited and proofed. You can do (and have done) better. Time to put on your big-boy panties and see that your work is properly edited and proofed. Way past time to be whining about your learning disability and poor quality if your education, and inviting the reader to proof and edit for you. If you can't meet these basic requirements, then hire someone who can, or take up gardening. I invite other readers to make their own decisions, but for me there is so much good literature out there that I will not be wasting my money any more. We don't have to settle for awful, and neither should you.Product details
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Picking Up The Pieces Martial Law Book 2 eBook Christopher Nuttall Reviews
I enjoyed reading the story. The political intrigue and how it interplayed with military operations was the strong point of this book. The week spot was character development. There was almost zero development of secondary characters, with almost no ink devoted to the characters of most of the hero's subordinates; they were essentially interchangeable. Please note that I did not read book 1 of the series. So, if that is where the character development occurred, then that is why I missed it. It sure didn't occur in this book 2. In many ways "Picking Up The Pieces" is very similar to the author's more recent work, "The Empire's Corps," which is a significantly better book.
From the title, one would think this was more about creating an interstellar government and solving the problems on Earth. This isn't even close to true. The story is about a mercenary group that has been hired by one of the post-UN governments on a colony planet to help train a native army. Not one but two different insurrections make up the bulk of the story and almost all of the action. The protagonist is a small time character from the first book in this universe, then Captain Andrew Nolte now Captain-General of the Legion of the Dispossessed. The politics of the book are the same as the first with a couple of twists, socialist and ultra-progressive. They are also fairly simplistic. The story is fairly tense and doesn't develop quite how you would expect, keeping the reader interested in the plot-line. Overall, I enjoyed the novel more than I did the first.
Mr. Nuttall is a passable writer when he's on his game but this feels like it was just cranked out.
The book almost exists in two parts. In the beginning were the communists and they lost their seat on the council so they rebelled. They were mostly city inhabitants who worked in factories. After that war ends, the farmers and miners get a bug in their collective butts (because the government is still clueless) and they rebel. So one rebellion for the urban folk and about a month later the country folk start a rebellion. It appears that this second rebellion is pushed by a couple of people from the mysterious Freedom League. Very vague.
At any rate, the first half was OK but the second half didn't hold together very well so it averages out to two stars.
I might have been a little bit harsh on Chris Nuttall when reviewing Patriotic Treason but the sequel Picking Up The Pieces deserves a lot of positive feedback. I really liked it and I almost gave it 5 stars but Nuttall is still somewhat of a newcomer and I couldn't give him 6 stars if I liked his next book even better. This novel is obviously influenced by Jerry Pournelle's The Mercenary and Prince of Sparta which don't bother me a bit because I love Pournelle's writings and I miss him. That said this novel also stands firmly on its own feet. Picking Up The Pieces is an apt title for this novel since it takes place some years after the end of Patriotic Treason and the Unite Nations are breaking up. The planet of Svergie has been abonded by the UN and is threatened by political Chaos and civil war. Enter the mercenary Captain-General Andrew Nolte and his Legion of the Disinherited. Nolte appeared as a minor character in Patriotic Treason but here he is the main character and a very good one of almost Hornblowerian proportions complete with selfdoubt and all. This makes him quite different from John Falkenberg of the Mercenary but more human and believable. Nolte's mission is to support the government of Svergie in avoiding a bloody civil war but nothing is as simple as it first seems and Nolte also have other plans that the government is unaware of. Well, as I usually say, if you want the whole story, read the book. As I mentioned at the start the quality of this novel is considerably higher the the prequel Patriotic Treason. Steep learning curve? Formalities as correct grammar and spelling are now quite alright. Facts about military training and tactics feels right (I spent 40 years in the army). Especially the tactics used by Nolte in the final battle of New Copenhagen shows that Mr Nuttall has done some serious studying of tactics like deep battle or has some competent military advisors. Mr Nuttall even has the spelling of Swedish names correct down to the dots over O and A exept for the spelling of Svergie. That's the way the name of my country is pronounced but it's spelled Sverige. I'll have to ask Mr Nuttall sometime if it's by design or by mistake. So to round of this review I have only one request of Mr Nuttall, I would really like a third and final novel in this series called Martial Law. Could I tempt you with a fifth star?
Yours sincerly
Hans
I enjoyed the first half dozen Ark Royal books. But this. This. Just Awful. Cardboard one-dimensional characters moving through a hackneyed plot, supported by constant moralizing about the destructive nature of the welfare state. The device of inserting paragraphs from other fictional works can work, but it needs to add something to the chapter which it introduces. These entries appear to be primarily exposition and/or filler. When Suki betrays the good good guys, I was shocked, shocked to discover gambling on the premises. No spoiler alert necessary. You'll likely have if figured out before I did, and worse, you won't care. The coup de grace is Nutall's lack of care; this is not even a very good first draft. Your readers deserve better Chris, and so do you. You are now making a living writing which makes you a PROFESSIONAL. Part of the profession which you HAVE CHOSEN TO ENTER, is that you provide your readers, at a minimum, with coherent stories, properly edited and proofed. You can do (and have done) better. Time to put on your big-boy panties and see that your work is properly edited and proofed. Way past time to be whining about your learning disability and poor quality if your education, and inviting the reader to proof and edit for you. If you can't meet these basic requirements, then hire someone who can, or take up gardening. I invite other readers to make their own decisions, but for me there is so much good literature out there that I will not be wasting my money any more. We don't have to settle for awful, and neither should you.
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