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Able One

By Ben Bova
Able One by Ben Bova digital book - Fable

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Able One Reviews

2.5
“Ok plot, ok characters. Ok military-techno story, not up to par with the major authors in this genre, but not terrible. I agree with other reviewers that the vernacular used does feel like it is current with today's military culture. Also, the other thing that bugged me was that there were a couple of side stories that had nothing to do with the main story. They were just in there, and I wondered why. Like the guy in the blizzard in Idaho? Did I miss something, or was that just a random story that didn't have ANY bearing on the main story?”
“The plot itself is intriguing, and I really enjoyed the military strategy elements, but overall, this book was lackluster. There were too many characters to develop properly, leaving room for only surface development. Some story lines didn't even feel necessary to the plot as a whole that it left me wondering what they were doing there. The women characters especially were heinously underdeveloped, but that was a big problem I had with the book. It was clearly written by a cishet white dude, as all characters that would be considered Other were treated so atrociously. There was clear prejudice across the board for any character that wasn't a white man that it made it hard to enjoy the story itself. I feel like this was a book I could have enjoyed more had I read it when I was younger and much less aware of these kinds of problems in media, but not anymore.”
“It was a nice book about military technology, and the tension behind it. I wasn't sure what i was expecting when I started listening to it. This was my first audio book in a long time, and the narrator did a great job.”

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