When I first read the summary for this book I was disappointed that Torin was no longer in the core. For me, that was the best part of the series. Eventually I good hooked on the idea that Torin, the life long Gunnery Sergeant, became disillusioned after discovering that the plastic bit aliens were manipulating the war, resulting in massive amounts of needless deaths, just because of a social exercise. This psychological realism is so reminiscent of wars and conflicts past and present as soldiers are released from the military questioning whether their acts of violence and physical sacrifices were for a good cause and meant anything at all. Torin is becoming the ultimate bad ass as she steps away from the world of black and white where the lines of good and evil are so clearly drawn and into the paranoid world of gray where good vs. evil is not so easily defined. Her pent up rage at being manipulated fuels her fire and even her friends are worried that she's finally beginning to snap. In my opinion Torin, who is not so big on psycho battle, begins to navigate through the world of post traumatic stress except that the game of fight or flight stress is still very much real and very much fully on.
I loved the new setting in which the story takes place. It is now a post war setting in the wake of much that has been ruined. Torin, who is now romantically involved with Craig, eek out their living by being salvage operators. The life of the salvage operator is the antithesis of the orderly military life and Torin has a difficult adjustment like so many others who leave war and find it hard to return to civilian life. The salvage operators base station is an accumulation of nomad gypsies where people are scraping together their lives by living off of the scraps and discarded rubble of others. It's a place where thieves and sharks band together because survival demands it. Although one of the primary cultural values is that everyone wants to be be left alone, there is still a bond that ties them together in spirit, however that does not not extend to the cost of dying for one another.
As the story progresses, Craig gets captured by a cut throat band of pirates who have intricate plans for large scale dominance.
Torin and gladly some of her old friends return to the story and we find that ex-Gunny Torin is still the same old Gunny Torin but with a new perspective and in a different light.
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