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Summary: Just who is "Newmark"?
Review: Grant seems to be trying very hard to prove he knows current military technology, but overplays his hand. He also uses a lot of unnecessary quotation marks: Kelli Fitzgerald, a "Navy brat" becomes the Brigade Commander at the Naval Academy. . . . After "Top Gun" training she . . . becomes the Skipper of a strike-fighter squadron. In the Far East, over Taiwan, she gets into a "dogfight" with Chinese pilots. . . . We readers have actually come across these terms before; generally, quotation marks are used to set off words or phrases that are unusual. This quoted section, by the way, is from the jacket blurb, which is similarly enough written that I'm sure Grant wrote it, as well as having done the book. This suggests that he is the editor, and, dare I say, the publisher as well. Gratuitous bad language, missing and/or inconsistent punctuation, and (30 pages into the book) poor characterization combine to make this an annoying narrative to read. I have to admit, though, that I'll try at least as far again, to page 60. . .
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Summary: Just who is "Newmark"?
Review: Grant seems to be trying very hard to prove he knows current military technology, but overplays his hand. He also uses a lot of unnecessary quotation marks: Kelli Fitzgerald, a "Navy brat" becomes the Brigade Commander at the Naval Academy. . . . After "Top Gun" training she . . . becomes the Skipper of a strike-fighter squadron. In the Far East, over Taiwan, she gets into a "dogfight" with Chinese pilots. . . . We readers have actually come across these terms before; generally, quotation marks are used to set off words or phrases that are unusual. This quoted section, by the way, is from the jacket blurb, which is similarly enough written that I'm sure Grant wrote it, as well as having done the book. This suggests that he is the editor, and, dare I say, the publisher as well. Gratuitous bad language, missing and/or inconsistent punctuation, and (30 pages into the book) poor characterization combine to make this an annoying narrative to read. I have to admit, though, that I'll try at least as far again, to page 60. . .
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