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So the first book in the series was quite good. But halfway book 2 it goes rapidly downhill, with book 3 (this one) being the worst. A lot of stuff thought up by Brian just don't make sense in the canon of Dune, and most of the book is basically plugging holes, so it somehow leads into the Dune books. But in a very, very sloppy way. Lots of good ideas from the first book are left, because he just didn't know what to do with them. Very disappointing read.

This book takes old ideas about the soviet army, and pretends it's a western army. It gives a lot of character background, which doesn't add anything to the story. As the author writes in the afterword, this book takes a wargaming scenario where the soviet army is exactly like all the propaganda, and nato forces are basically the soviet army, and also do everything possible wrong. There's no world building, no reasons why things happen. I didn't enjoy reading it. Also the kindle version is very badly converted.