Forced War (review)

by Ron Jacobs

UR was given half of the recently written novel, Forced War. It was an exciting read. It is in a time of war and it does have a lot of characters, at least at the beginning. The first four chapters covers most of the war, which means covering about 4 or 5 years, leaving the rest of the novel to cover the last year or so of the war and a little after. The story is written mostly about Hoban Rantré Imonora and Jucal Imonora.

These two men are the main focus of the novel though it does add in characters such as General Sir, the mysterious agent woman from the Saving Worlds and so on. It adds some characters we have never met before and kills many. For people who do not like death, you probably shouldn’t read this book. The book (at least what we have received) is not thickly laced with death but it is about war meaning there is death all around.

Over all I think that the piece we have received is a great story and I think it has ruined me. I want the rest of it so bad it almost hurts. Maybe RB will have some pitty on me and give me the rest. It doesn’t look likely. I am not aloud (by the author) to comment on writing or style because, and I quote, “I need time to be able to edit. It was really a rushed job I feel for having the time constraint and having to juggle the novel between college a job and Taekwondo. It really, really needs to be edited.”

But overall the story is amazing so far.

Originally featured in Issue 2