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Into the Storm
As always, I fully enjoyed Larry Correia's writing and story telling. This is a book in the "Iron Kingdoms" universe. This is from the Warmachine RPG system. I really don't know what I'm talking about right now. I'm only repeating what I've been told. I have never played an RPG, so I definitely wasn't familiar with this world.But that didn't matter. I'd been told by others it didn't matter, but I was still hesitant to read the book. Believe me -- it does not matter. It's a world. It's steampunk and there are armies and battles. It's all introduced without resorting to info-dumps and anyone who reads any kind of fantasy will get the gist right away.It's also lucky that this is one of my favorite tropes. A ragtag bunch of misfits, miscreants and malcontents are forced together and, against all odds, create a cohesive unit in order to achieve extraordinary things. Most extraordinary: redemption. It's actually quite moving by the end.My one complaint is with the last quarter or so of the book (my Kindle has decided to stop giving me my reading percentages, so that's an estimation). This part of the book is good, but it seems a bit rushed. Stories that were set up were quickly dispensed with and I felt like we were jumping around a bit. Some things were dropped that I wanted to see play out. Spoiler warning: (view spoiler)[I wanted to see Captain Shaffer get his. I wanted him demoted and shamed. But he seems to have been killed off page. (hide spoiler)]