The Laughing Wolf

Book Review: Kildar by John Ringo

A few weeks ago, I posted a review of John Ringo's book Ghost as part of a series looking at the "gaming" of scenarios that can't be touched except as something like fiction. That work examined the true nature and face of the enemy, the enemy within, and the costs that can go with battle. There were a few who blew it off for superficial reasons, but that is their loss.

John has out a new book in the series, Kildar. Once again, he has a lot of fun, there is some food for thought on several levels, and we have the fun of reading it (and laughing ourselves silly). For those who complained about some of the absurdities liberties taken in the first book, the second is a bit more down to Earth in those respects. Maybe.

I won't spoil it for you by going into details other than to say that Ghost buys the farm, and all the farmer's daughter jokes you can handle (or not, some are weak). But you just know that you are going to enjoy any book that starts with:

"This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book and series has no connection to reality. Any attempt by the reader to replicate any scene in this series is to be taken at the reader's own risk. For that matter, most of the actions of the main character are illegal under U.S. and international law as well as most of the stricter religions in the world. There is no Valley of the Keldara. Heck, there is no Kildar. And the idea of some Scots and Vikings getting together to raid the Byzantine Empires is beyond ludicrous. The islands described in a previous book do not exist. Entire regions described in these books do not exist. Any attempt to learn anything from these books is disrecommended by the author, the publisher and the author's mother who wishes to state that he was a very nice boy and she doesn't know what went wrong."

It only gets better. Highly recommended.

LW
who hopes he does get redshirted for voting in that romance book competition... Also, if you have not read Princess of Wands, you should.