Helpful Score: 1
Victor Milan is on my short list of great writers. He has a knack for creating large casts of characters in which each has their own definite personality, faults and traits. CLD is a very dark and gruesome sci-fi military story set in a decidedly un-utopian future where humanity is ran by people who count Hitler and Stalin as heroes. The protagonists are dissidents and criminals, the government is warped and the whole thing is wrapped in pseudo-religion. It is by no means a book for the squeamish. Blood flows and twisted morals prevail.
The two bad marks on the book are the aliens (who take a form that I find a bit silly for alien races but I admit to have had previous bad experiences with their type in other, much worse novels) and what is probably one of the worst covers ever put on a novel. There's a guy on there that looks like Stalone in Rambo for cryin' out loud!
The two bad marks on the book are the aliens (who take a form that I find a bit silly for alien races but I admit to have had previous bad experiences with their type in other, much worse novels) and what is probably one of the worst covers ever put on a novel. There's a guy on there that looks like Stalone in Rambo for cryin' out loud!
