Legacy Earth

Legacy Earth Series, Book 1

By: Ross Buzzell

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

With an 85 percent dropout rate, find the strength within or go home.

So far, Officer Candidate School is living up to its cutthroat reputation. Still, the merciless mental, physical, and psychological torture may be worth it for Lance Warder to have a chance to fight in space.

The space that awaits isn't for the faint of heart. He'll have to shed his mental chains to prove his mettle. Because no one cares who your father is when you're faced with unknown threats in a dark, infinite void.

To help deal with the everyday grind of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training, Lance will join a boxing league and even find himself in the middle of a mysterious AI takeover that may spell doom for mankind.

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liked it

entertaining story even though book 1 was only the boot camp, but unlike other stories, the MC comes from a military family and doesn't have the tegular struggles of not knowing what he signed up for

Good build

This book is a good foundation for what comes next. I like the idea of joint boot camp, and that you went with marine corps boot camp. The exercises were a bit light. But the real ones don’t translate to text well. I didn’t go officer though, so…

just skip the first 3 hours

just skip the first 3 hours. if I was reading this I would have put the book down.

Very little SciFi

This is mostly a run of the mill boot camp story with little tidbits of SciFi thrown in. The characters are OK, but nothing outstanding. You don't hate them, but you don't really care much about them. It's like a kid writing to his mom, "They woke me up at 5:00 this morning and I didn't get to bed until 11:00 PM. And when I mess up they make me do pushups.".

Basic training by someone who has clearly NEVER been to basic training.

The story is OK. It isn't unreadable and the characters are interesting. This author however has clearly never served in the military. You don't get to go on dates with nurses and have time off in basic training or OTC. And the SERE training was completely ridiculous. Lance was knocking out guards and breaking out of stuff. The first thing we were told on the first day of SERE, "if we hit you it's training, if you hit us it's assault." I will probably try the second book, but if this continues I won't get the third.

Made it to chapter 5 with great difficulty

Ross Buzzell prose was fine but it was obvious from the start that his understanding of the military was shallow. The recruits were greeted on entering OCS training by a gruff drill sergeant that first demanded every recruit to refer to him as "Drill Sergeant" and to never speak unless spoken to. Then afterward allowed recruits to speak without being asked but also to refer to him with the "Sir" honorific which is only used with military officer rank. Then, he was referred to as the commanding officer which, him being a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) sergeant, made little sense.

Getting past those irregularities, we have the unoriginal trope of a extremely short recruit winning a fight against a brute of a recruit by sliding under his swing and nailing him in his nuts.

I'm returning this for a credit return.