Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

I don’t remember how or why this ended up on my to read shelf, but I’m glad it did. I eventually picked it up in the library and found Old Man’s War to be a completely engrossing read. While I love sci-fi, I’m not too knowledgeable about the classics; I don’t know Henlein from Asimov yet, but I really liked Scalzi. His writing in this seemed almost a little too detached at times, but the future world he’s built is amazing.

From the Colonial Defense Force that takes senior citizens and gives them newer, stranger bodies to the various aliens they encounter (and almost always go to war with), there’s a great world out there that I wanted to learn more about. At times it felt like John, the main character, was a little too good, too smart and too perfect, but it all worked with the story being told. I’ll definitely be picking up the rest of the series to expand on the world Scalzi’s created.