Fun and entertaining. It's a sort of volume 1.5 of the "Heirs of Alexandria" series, and if you read any of those, you could call it "Prince Manfred goes to Norway".
Lighter in tone, not surprising since it has a different author, it is a good fantasy/adventure book.
Long and a bit boring, overfocused in religion. The author seems to feel a need to make all characters deeply religious and tolerant, and to pack as many different religions (real or invented) as he can.
Not smart enough to be interesting that way, the military action fizzles by creating a terribly ineffectual fictional adversary.
I can't believe I am the first person reading this in all of goodreads.com :-)
I could not finish it. The first story "Food will win this war" is ok, but the following two dig themselves deeper and deeper into military slang, it's almost as if their only goal was to make you understand what an S-3 is.
