Any thing you get for free is automatically suspected of being less than average in quality. Having never read any work by John Scalzi, and it being the first download I received from Tor's free Sci-Fi book download at Watch the Skies - Tor.com hopefully you can understand my original misgivings about reading Old Man's War.Thankfully, I was wrong.
Old Man's War is an excellent read which follows 72 year old John Perry as he leaves Earth after the death of his wife a few years earlier and becomes a solider in the Colonial Army. I won't discuss the plot from there as it is impossible to do so without spoiling the first surprise in the book, but I will say I had a hard time putting the book down once I started reading it.
John Scalzi does an excellent job writing characters you want to continue reading about and weaves a story that draws you in and invites you to stay for a while. I know Tor's overall objective is to sell more books by giving some away and in this case, they have succeded as I am now planning on buying the other books written in this series such as The Last Colony and The Sagan Diary. I would invite you, urge you actually, to read this book if you get the chance
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