I started Crystal Soldier because my usual favorite authors have not released any light, enjoyable space opera in a while, and I wanted something new to fill that gap. Unfortunately, this book did not work for me at all.
The science feels flimsy, the world-building is unconvincing, and the antagonists never seem to have meaningful motivations. Even though the prose itself is clean and the editing is competent, the story is slow and the action lacks weight. The close-quarters combat scenes in particular are so implausible that they pulled me out of the narrative rather than drawing me in.
What frustrates me most is how poorly recommendation systems categorize works like this. They keep lumping together hard science fiction with fantasy, supernatural elements, and loose world-building. This book is another example of that failure. It sits much closer to fantasy than to any credible science fiction tradition, and it left me bored from start to finish. 1/5 Stars.
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