A PERFECT SPACE MARINE
A Soldier's Duty
Theirs Not To Reason Why Series
By Jean Johnson
Military
Sci-fi
Paranormal
Kickin' Female Lead
Jean Johnsen is a anthor to revere – she has an ability to create worlds and characters that feel so real that I can't help but be drawn in for hours on end while I read her books. I love her to bits!
A Soldier's Duty was the very first Military Sci-fi that I ever read, and what an interesting introduction to a genre that I have grown to love. The story was a little slow at first, but when you consider that it spans five novels, the beginning sets up the story for the whole series. Ia is a beautiful woman coming into herself with the biggest burden anyone has ever had to face. She has three hundred years in which to save the whole galaxy, all seven sentient beings worth, and only about ten years in which to do it in.
Ia is a brand new recruit in the Terran United Planets Marines, the only path way that our gorgeous pre-cog heroine finds through many time sensitive pathways. If she had her way, she would have lived out the rest of her days entertaining as a famous singer in her parents out of the way resturant in the captical city of the newest heavy world plant called Serenity (and no, this is no reference to our fav TV sci-fi series). But she is haunted with nightmares of the future in which an alien race wipes out and destroys the galaxy in which humanity lives, including it's allies. She endures the six months of intensive training as a new recruit and finds herself at the beginning of a legend called the Bloody Mary, a kick arse marine who fights hard, lives hard and doesn't take no crap off of nobody.
Like I said, the BEST introduction to a science fiction military with a kick arse famale lead ever!
Ia was the first character that I ever recognised that was truly what I desired in a novel. Five books later and I still longed to see what happened 300 years after her life and times. If you trust me as a reviewrer, then trust me in this – A Soldier's Duty is a great place to start when beginning a new genre.
But seriously, you just need to look at the cover of the book to see that is is a bloody good read! And, yes, I'm a sucker for decent book covers! So sue me!
