This is one of those books where the hype lead me to expect something amazing and I came away a little disappointed. It's a clever idea, mixing the military and magic in such a unique way, but all the way through Britton just irritated me. He seemed to vacillate between good and bad, right and wrong, service and rebellion at every possible point and in a protagonist I find that sort of indecisiveness a touch too incredulous.

The combat was very well written indeed; Chris Evans is right when he says “Myke Cole takes you downrange where the bullets fly and the magic burns with precision-guided ferocity that’ll put you on the edge of your seat before blowing you right out of it.”

For all the good writing and very nicely done action though, character let this down for me. Maybe the next novel in the series, now our characters are a bit more established, will pick up some.