If you didn’t gather this from the book summary, this book has a lot of religious discussion within, if that is something you do not wish to read about, then this book is not for you. I personally don’t have any issue with reading books with religious context, but for me, it seemed like the author was heavily pushing pro-religious / anti-atheism discussion. The war being fought is between an allied force of all religious beliefs against atheists. This part is fine, many wars have been fought for the sake of religion. I felt though that the author was flexing the “evil” atheists in the story as more than just the the fiction of the book, but relating it back to all atheists in general. I won’t go into detail on all of this, the author does have some statements where they don’t always say atheists are terrible, but at best, they annoy the characters within the book. This is the main reason I gave the story a 2 star rating.
Besides the above, I would rate the story at 3 stars. I would give it this rating because I felt the beginning of the book was very rushed, and the MC switched his mood very quickly of wanting to be a rabbi, to giving that up and pursuing a military career. Then there was a part where it was similar to getting the band back together in Blues Brothers, but where I barely remembered who those people were in the book. I just didn’t have that relationship with them yet and it felt weird. Later in the book I grew to know those characters better. From there, most of the rest of the book was predictable and kind of went with the flow, which isn’t terrible, but also not that original.
For the narrator, he is ok. There is not much variation between voices, which not all narrators do. One thing I would mention though is that his voice seemed to get quieter at the end of a lot of sentences, which was noticeable. Overall an average narrator.