Not impressed.  By the end of the prologue (which in itself was a poor choice) I knew it wasn’t going to be great,but I made myself keep reading, hoping I would be surprised.  I wasn’t.  The writing was very unimpressive.  On one page he used the word “soldier” ten times.  One right after the other.  It did not flow well.  It used a lot of direct thoughts that were out of place and redundant.  It restated a lot.  I really don’t need to know what kind of car every character drives and what coffee they drink and the exact square footage of their apartments.  It brought in so much unnecessary information in the most awkward way.  He would have someone say something that sounds completely unnatural and was clearly something understood by all the present characters, so it was done simply to inform the reader.  So many words and scenes that could have easily been cut out and only made the book better.  And the dialogue was structured wrong sometimes.  That annoys me.  That should be one of the first things a writer figures out before they start writing.  Make I’m being unfair.  Maybe it was typos.  Maybe.  And one more thing that annoyed me to no end in the beginning was his unwillingness to name the characters.  I believe that, unless you have a really good reason (he did not),the POV character should be named right away.  He went pages without naming some characters.  That led to an over reliance on “he” and ridiculous nicknames.  

Besides the writing being bad, the story wasn’t even good.  It was way too political.  To the point where it literally went to political speeches many times throughout.  I realize that is kinda the point of the book, but it was just exhausting.  It maybe is meant to teach people, but I think that most people would just get annoyed and stop reading.  I almost did.  But maybe I just am not the right audience.  I prefer to read fiction for the story, not to be preached at.  Sue me.   If you want a political message in a book, try and be at least somewhat discreet.  Don’t make one of your characters a professor who literally gives political lectures in your book.  In doing that, Bobby tried too hard to show how smart he is.  Not just on political topics, but on locations and objects.  Too much irrelevant detail about things that have no bearing on the story.  And the story itself was pretty boring.  Maybe if the entire series was cut down to a reasonable length and all the excess was chopped, it would be good, but the way it is, I was bored.  I really was.

So no, this was not a good book.  I will not be reading the rest of the series.  I probably should have seen that coming.  Any series that has 6 books come out in little over a year cannot be well written.  Tell me if I’m wrong, but that raises a red flag for me.  But hey, if you want a political lecture with a storyline and don’t mind bad writing, this is the book for you.  Not the book for me.