This blend of military description, sci-fi, and social inspection create a satisfyingly engrossing tale that fills its pages not with battle scenes and high-tech devices, but with ethical and personal conundrums . . . The result is a well-detailed, complex story that centers on destruction, rebirth, and the emergence of new threats in the face of stress and violence.

-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review


Graves takes the time to build the characters, everybody complex, even the expected bullies. One could almost say, especially the bullies. And in an atmosphere fraught with tension and sudden violence . . .The thing I liked best is that the book is not all blood and brawn. Big questions, including loyalty, friendship, love, decency, literature and what it says about human experience and what makes civilization all get examined . . . Harrowing to the max.

-Sherwood Smith, Author of the Crown Duel Series


The plot is complex and very well thought-out . . . The pacing was impeccable . . . I liked how the relatively large cast of characters was handled and how, despite the first person narrative from Sheridan's perspective, I was able to understand the nature of the rest of the characters through his eyes.

-The DigressiveApproach Blog


Gripping science fiction . . . Graves does an incredible job of obliterating the well-known assumptions to make room in this fast-paced, ensemble-based novel . . . Almost all of the (considerable number of) characters you come in contact
with become emotional attachments whose wellbeing you as the reader (and indeed as Aaron) care deeply about. The progression and advancement of these relationships, as well as their turbulent arguments, are essential to progressing the plot.

- Rachel's Writing: Ramblings, Ravings, and Reviews