That, in sum, is the sort of thing the Acoustasonic format encourages. That said, it can be pressed into service of many different kinds of styles, perhaps some that are all your own. It is warmer, with a little more width than you’d expect from a Tele’s bridge pickup.

Fender promises twang but this isn’t Pete Anderson levels of twang. Park yourself on position one for a more traditional electric guitar experience, but don’t necessarily expect a traditional Telecaster experience. In a sense, this is a sound that almost exists outside of the spectrum of acoustic/electric tones, and is sure to support pedalboard experimentation. The sound is just coming from the piezo and as you turn the blend control it adds drive. Here is where the true hybrid tones are, and as such, there are fewer references for what we are hearing. I don't think it matters.The Lo-Fi voicings are interesting. You should have paid more attention to the description of the book before making this complaint if it was an issue for you. The authors have already admitted to this in the listing. Other reviewers complain about this being a Star Wars rip-off. While I give this book a 3 star rating, I give the second book a 5 star rating. If you, like me, weren't impressed with this book but found it passable, you should at least try the second book and see if everything 'clicks' for you like it did for me. The characters you meet and interact with in this story become much more in the books beyond this one. In hindsight, I now see this book for what it really is: an introduction to an intricate galaxy-wide space drama masquerading as a military story on an remote planet. Having already bought the second book, I decided to read it anyways. It doesn't do anything bad, but it doesn't do anything particularly interesting either.īUT, this is not a standalone book. This is why I said that, by itself, I would give this book 3 stars. The authors of Legionnaire did succeed in writing a good military sci-fi story, which I am sure was their goal. After all, Tom Clancy wrote some good books in my opinion. All of that being said, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Like other reviewers have said: you can replace the sci-fi words with normal words and have a normal military story. The novel, the story, and the characters seem like you're reading about a group of Marines on a 'bad trip' in Afghanistan. This book read like Tom Clancy wrote a Star Wars novel after binging on some early 2000's 40k novels. I've read a lot of Tom Clancy and a lot of Warhammer 40k. However, I have given it 4 starts in context with the rest of the series, which I will explain later on in this review. When I read this book, I was not very impressed. So, in addition to speed, action and firefights, you can expect a lot of heroic actions and deaths in a story that does not exactly have a happy ending but a rather bitter one and which is to be continued in volume 2 of the series.Ī great start and a strong four star read. The Legionnaires are spread thing over the Galaxy’s Edge, and Victory Company fights as hard as it can for its survival against the overwhelming odds of a rebellion that was supposed to be impossible. It is one of the best samples of the genre and it is accordingly fast-paced. The book clearly belongs to the military science fiction universe. Also not exactly original as the – this time heroic - characters of the major, the lieutenant and the sergeant, who is also at times the narrator of the story. The characters, while believable, are sometimes bordering stereotype, particularly in the case of Captain Denvers, the political appointee which the authors have deliberately tried to make as loathsome and stupid as possible. They felt more like a science fiction equivalent of Roman Legionaries fighting on the Empire’s frontiers in conflicts that they do not necessarily understand. They are also somewhat different from Jay Allen’s Marines. The Legionnaires are not made up of former criminals, as in Dietz’s Legion of the Damned and neither are they modelled on the French Foreign Legion. There are however also significant differences. Another related theme is the existence of a privileged and unaccountable class of politicians that seek to control the Legion through political – and worthless – appointees and bureaucratic rules that put them at risk and undermine their efficiency, in the best of cases. One is the existence of the Legion, an elite force of professionals devoted each other and their corps and fighting for a State and government that does not deserve them on “Galaxy’s Edge” against a coalition of enemy forces. This was a great read, even if a somewhat unoriginal one, with flavours from William Dietz and Jay Allen and some similar themes.

Legionnaire hardcover edition nick cole