After a January of Chekhov and Tolstoy and other cheery Russian bastards, then a February of penny-dreadfuls and other 19th century nonsense, reading something from the past decade was kind of a shocker. And it was all full of tanks and explosions and the other things I love Drake for. Politics of the crowd, too. But always the tanks. ( )

lack of excitement: While I liked the book overall, I thought there was a real lack of excitement in the battle scenes simply because the Slammers armored battalions simply walk right over their enemies with almost no casualties to themselves. Virtually every battle is the same: the tanks and armored cars go in, blow everything away in their path with little to no losses of their own, then the enemy surrenders. It would have been much more exciting if the Slammers faced an actual challenge from enemies that fired back, instead of the target practice/ turkey shoot battles that pervade the novel.

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