The Midnight Readers discussion

A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly re-joins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war.

The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler.

But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Roger returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work.

With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.

Mechanical Failure starting July 4th!

Starting a day late because I've been finishing up other BRs... I'm hoping to start tonight or tomorrow morning

So I did start this and got about 10% but I’m just not in the right mood. I think I’m going to DNF for now and move on to other buddy reads. Maybe come back when I’m more in the mood for this type of sci-fi.

I ended up reading this book, I had already started when I saw your message about DNFing and decided to finish. I had fun!

I’m glad you enjoyed it!! Hopefully I can get back around to it once I’m more in the mood for hard sci-fi. Right now the only sci-fi I’ve been reading is alien romance hahaha