Legionnaire | Writer's Review

Much like the series itself, Legionnaire is a hard military sci-fi novel. Perhaps even more so than some of its sequels. It's storytelling structure is centered around a single point-of-view character narration, presented from the first person's perspective and present tense. In this regard the novel is quite similar to the Frontlines series by Marko Kloss. If you've read any of those books you should already be familiar with this style of storytelling. Although with Legionnaire Nick Cole and Jason Anspach also included a couple short-story like chapters. In contrast to the rest of the novel, these segments feature less prominent characters in the story and are presented from the third person perspective and past tense.

As far as plot goes, Legionnaire is quite simple and straight forward. The entirety of novel covers the story Sgt. Chunn and Victory company, a unit of elite warriors assigned to a diplomatic envoy mission on a backwards planet near the edge of the Galactic Empire. Sure enough, the situation goes sideways in a big way and the soldiers are left to fight for their lives on a world full of hostiles. While at its core the novel's story might be simple in construction, this isn't to say it isn't worth reading. What it lacks in character and plot depth, it makes up in good-old heart-pumping action centered fun and a rich universe filled with alien creatures, mesmerizing landscapes and a seemingly bottomless political cesspool. The last of which is a key driver of events to come in later novels.