Dropship One (Space Recruits Book 1)

Action packed from start to finish. I really enjoyed it, and the vast cast of characters were interesting. The book goes along at a lightning pace, not leaving much room to put it down. I found myself reading well in to the night. I'd recommend this book which seems to be the start of a promising series.

Just awful. Couldn't force myself to finish it. It gave the impression of having been written by a young child.

Really enjoyed this read. I will be following the saga

I read a lot of military sci fi and this be amongst the worst I have read recently! I rarely write bad reviews but this deserves It! Don't waste your time!

good story line look forward to more

Love this story...more!

"Dropship One" is a first-person account of a marine recruit straight out of bootcamp and his coming to terms with the profession he's chosen. Not that there's all that much of an alternative. In L.D.P. Samway's novel, this version of future earth has very little in the way of potential careeer opportunity. Going to war for a military that fights for money and not necessarily much else is a respectable line of work. Samways, who also writes under the name Luis, presents the protagonist Jensen as a bit of a bumbler. The action starts straightaway, he's aboard a dropship shuttle and dumped into a hot zone. He has to react quickly, join with his comrades and eliminate the threat. Jensen doubts his ability, his courage and, soon after his drop, his ability to survive and actually collect a paycheck. Upon landing, he loses his partner to a genetically modified dinosaur that rends his head from the fellow soldier's body. Good detail, however. Jensen kills the beast but starts freezing up, acting like a character in a slasher film, standing there stupidly while the next threat just about kills him. But Samways keeps Jensen's inner dialogue interesting. He doesn't let the character go all existential. The fellow just doesn't have the time. He's got to get moving. Jensen links up with a more seasoned soldier who shows him the ropes. The two of them get in one scrape after another as they learn the extent of the pirate infiltration of the planet they've been tasked with rescuing. The marine corps (Samways refers to it as core, but I just can't deal with that spelling) has been commissioned by the bug-like residents of the mineral rich planet to rid them of the reptilian pirates, and Jensen and his partner do a good job of it, descending deep into the mines to find their fellow soldiers battling for their lives. Samways presents the situation from one soldier's perspective as that his character faces death, killing and having to deal with his fears. Jensen had been so preoccupied with his stomach-churning concern that he didn't listen much to the official briefing on exactly what he was supposed to do once he reached the planet. He made mistakes. He got angry at his superiors. He wanted revenge for the loss of fellow soldiers. This part of the narrative gives Samways' novel heft. This was the first of Samways' books for me, and I read it in less than 24 hours in several sittings. He's got some weird spellings, but I assume that's got to be British. He lives in England and, according to his bio, dreams of beaches but settles for green and cows. He's also a prolific writer. I'm going to read more.

An intriguing story from the viewpoint of a new Marine recruit, with quite a lot of gore and violence. It is more a war story than anything else, but if you like that genre, it is a good mix of space troopers and generation kill.

It was exciting, well written . I appreciated the realism of the characters and their moments of terror and heroism. I look forward to your next book. The story moved along nicely without bogging down with a ton of irrelevant back story.

Ok