Its a fair soap opera of a series. The writing is pretty bleary aimed at young-teenage readers. if my book pile shrinks enough, i may read it.
I really like the concept of the series, especially the political and social projections. but marsden totally played these things down. what i wanted was more of an explantion of why and how the actual invasion occured. but from the perspective he gave, this was not rerally possible. i recognise thise.. but it always left me a little over intrigued about the politics of it. because politicians start wars, not the army. Its one thing to have a theme of 'war is hell', but without much of a spectrum to represent, it seems a little hollow to me.
i think i feel this about most war movies. I always enjoy the ones that give glimpses (at least) of many different people involved, from the soldiers to the civilians to the officers. this is why i liked the movie "The Pianist" so much... and "Gallipoli". And why i hated "Black Hawk Down"
