Kafer sounds angry or annoyed or both ALL the time. It’s very stressful. And he reads without paying attention to what is coming or has been said, so misses most of the needed contrasts.
I was going to try to imitate Nuttall’s style but it’s exhausting, too exhausting. He adds his emphasis at the ends of sentences, almost all the sentences. It gets annoying, very annoying. The story progresses slowly, too slowly. This is book 17, and it seems more obvious in this volume, overly obvious.
It took many, many hours to learn if the female path finder was a good guy or a bad guy. I never could follow all the generals and the other groups of Marines, or insurgents, or others. There are a lot of characters, and I couldn’t keep track of them.
I have enjoyed the series mostly, and will keep reading them, but am really hoping that they don’t just disperse to the ends of the galaxies and never come to any conclusion or resolution, but I’d sure like to see some of Colonel Stalker (Kafer pronounces is Stocker), and I cannot for the life of me see how it fits into the inane world of Magic in one of his other series (am I the only one who heard the reference to Stalker in book 1 of that eye-rolling series?)
I’m going to continue, although he has dropped his other series, just to see if these Marines and Stalker’s Marines on Avalon can ever hook up and maybe set up some order in the universe.