My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Sci-fi
Content: Sex is alluded to but nothing is shown on page
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 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.
This isn't the sort of book I would usually pick up to read but it was our book club pick. I actually voted for it as my second choice because I was curious about Battletech. It's a game my husband has played over the years. Needless to say, he was really interested in this one. I had low expectations going in but was pleasantly surprised at how much this book kept me entertained. The characters aren't real deep, although the main character does grow a bit from being naive about some things to learning his lesson, but the book plays out like a pretty good action movie. I enjoyed the story for what it was. I found the different mechs to be one of the most interesting aspects of the book.
For book club we set up the pieces to the tabletop version of the game as centerpieces on the table and kitchen island.
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