Duncan Campbell (12)

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

(Spoilers within)

Foehammer is the story of an unknown threat that has infiltrated several areas in the world, and how a team of people is put together to neutralize the threat when no one else can. This is set in a future where cities have been gated off and poor people have been left outside of the gates.

The group barely know anything about each other before they're thrown into their first mission.

I think the main five characters chosen for the mission are fine. I think Jester is the author favorite and possibly overutilized, though Helga was my favorite and I felt she was a little underutilized. This didn't go on to an extent that I hated Jester or anything like that. I didn't mind him doing a lot in the story.

I thought the way Helga's chapters were handled was actually very clever. She's a large, incredibly strong Russian woman who isn't confident in her English speaking skills. The majority of her chapters are summarizations of events rather than showing a lot of dialogue. I think that works very well for her. As someone who speaks English as a second language, she might be good enough to pick up overall what people are talking about but not catch every single word, so it's great that writing out the dialogue is avoided in her sections. I thought that was a great way to handle it.

I'm not positive if this was done on purpose because there are other parts of the story where dialogue will randomly be cut out and summarized instead.

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