BattleTech Legends: Decision at Thunder Rift (The Gray Death Legion Trilogy, Book One)
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Publisher Description
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE EPIC SAGA OF FUTURE WAR!
THE BEGINNING OF A LEGEND...
Thirty meters tall, seventy tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the front line forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-Century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart.
Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. Now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: it takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior...
But to claim that title, all Grayson has to do is go out and capture one of those giant killing machines...if it doesn't kill him first.
Customer Reviews
Good, but needs editing
The story is fun battle-tech fighting with a good amount of world building and a climax that feels satisfying. While the characters aren’t always fully developed, their motivations and growth seem realistic for a society that is essentially a military mercenary state with no government oversight.
There are certainly a lot of editing mistakes that seem to have slipped in and they are sometimes even distracting from the story as you have to re-read and translate what is trying to be said. I doubt there will be another edition of this book, but it was fun and worth purchasing.
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The book and story are fair, typical of the Battletech novels that were churned out over the years. I had read a number of them when I was much younger. I enjoyed the Battletech universe, the role playing and computer games, so it was only natural to read some of the books as well. Now I am close 50 and still enjoy the Battletech world and games based around it.
My reading tastes have changed some over the decades, but I decided to give this novel a try. It’s not a masterpiece. Some of the characters seem very undeveloped. The worst thing though was the awful editing. I don’t know if it was this bad in paperback or just something that happened when converted to electronic format. I liked the story, and already purchased and read the next in the series, but the editing failures make it a far less enjoyable read. Had the editing not been so awful I would have given this 4 stars, but as it is, I barely felt justified in giving three.
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