' See review of March Upcountry ' - John, ' While I do find this story compelling and would like to know exactly how it turns out, I find myself bogged down in all the battles so finally abasndoned it after reading about 150 pages. Pretty bloody and gory, so if you have a week stomach, stay clear. ' Slower than the first book, but still a good yarn. Land on a planet filled w/hostiles w/a squadron of elite guards and watch him grow up. Take a spoiled prince and sabotage his ship. I like the military history/weaponry lessons, almost as much as I love the plot. I will continue on to book number three but it won't be right away. That was more of an adventure and this one didn't really have an adventure for me at all. ' I liked this book but it didn't have the same feeling for me that the first book in the series did.

' I like this story, but the author has a tendency to get bogged down in details of military stratagem and engineering of weapons and boats. ' This novel allows for the incomprehensibly arrogant view of mankind as superior while humbling mankind in courage. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Which is to say, the exposition was necessary (and informative) but Ringo/Weber write action far better than they write exposition. Fairly enjoyable military science fiction with a trifle too much exposition between the battles. 'Finally got around to finishing this book, the delay more my fault than the book's. Now both Prince and bodyguards are determined to get each other off the planet alive. Under the right circumstances, even the most spoiled brat can grow up fast, and it turns out that, under his petulant exterior, Prince Roger is a true MacClintock, a scion of the warrior dynasty that created the Empire of Man. But that was before an assassination attempt marooned the Royal Brat and his bodyguards on the planet Marduk, and before they had to march half way around the planet, through 120-degree heat and five-hour rainstorms in jungles full of damnbeasts, capetoads, killerpillars, and atul-grak, not to mention hostile peoples, to make their way back to port.

Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt.

David weber march upcountry