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Fan-freaking-tastic! I loved Old Man's War but this was a great follow-up in a different vein, with very compelling characters and the mystery as to what the three alien races are up to....It deals with serious topics with just enough humour that the story doesn't get bogged down. Read this, and then all the rest of his books

This second book in the Old Man's War series has a tighter and more intricate plot than the first novel. With mystery and thriller elements, The Ghost Brigades seems less interested in wowing us with the physical powers of the character's genetically altered bodies. The protagonist, himself a clone, is more interesting than the lead character from the first novel. He has a much more complex personality. He doesn't quite know who or what he is and that tension adds interest, as opposed to the more assured, older character we've already seen. The book seems to embrace human agency, even if that agency is limited by the fact that one might just happen to be a clone.

Good second book in the series. Weak science but good plot and writing, makes clones rather lovable even if their job is killing and being killed. The evil all powerful government is always good grist for the writers.

I thought this was a deeper, richer book even than the first in this series (which was itself pretty magnificent)! Great military sci-fi with a poignant human undertow.

Great futuristic technothriller a la Clancy, Deighton & la Carre on vulnerability of key equipment & cloning a traitor on why he did it.

Writing sequels is hard, I get that. Especially when your first book is something as awesome as "Old Man's War." But I just didn't enjoy this one as much. Not that I didn't like it at all, far from it, but it just wasn't quite as enjoyable as the first.

We've left John behind to follow the Ghost Brigades, specifically one particular and special one. He raises a whole heck of ethical problems in his 'birth' which are very interesting and we get to see more of the world outside of what we got in the first one. Maybe I just didn't click with the characters as much this time. Or maybe just not the right ones. But it's overall still a fast paced book with a wonderful amount of humour even in the moral quandaries and warzones.

This is a great sequel to Old Man's War. We get to follow the development of the key character, Jared Dirac, from his awakening to his end. He experiences love, loss, friendship, enemies and sacrifice. I find myself wishing that part of it had ended differently because you get involved in the character. I hope the writer will continue with more stories of his future universe. I would like to find out about some of the other races he's created and their stories as well as more about the "human" soldiers. I find it an intriguing idea that the soldiers are people who have lived a full life before they become soldiers.

Highly recommended! Interesting tech ideas, great characters, and a good sense of humor along with a ripping good science fiction adventure.

This is a great series. Read them.