Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In our last chapter we lost the character I wanted to see more of. Kind of annoyed, because we’re still stuck with the main cast.
Now we hit a chapter that going into it I’m concerned about the reaction to, because it’s at the Russian/Ukraine boarder. If you’re in the future and wondering why I’m concerned, check the posting date and think about what was going on at the boarder at the time. For those of you in the present, remember that this book came out in 1995, so it should be interesting to see in 2024 what they predicted and what they ended up being wrong on. If memory serves, these take place slightly into the future.
For the record I am not a geopolitical expert nor a military strategist. I am a storyteller and reviewer. I don’t know why then or now Russia would be so interested in getting Ukraine back when reforming the USSR as a top priority outside of it’s being right next door and they owned it before. All I know before starting this chapter is that Commie Op-Center must be interested in drawing Ukraine into this for whatever reason they have. Maybe we’ll learn something and maybe we won’t. We’re about to find out as we jump into this next chapter. These being big novels we aren’t even a quarter into the book yet. This is going to go into the new year, isn’t it? Not really the type of story I wanted to be reviewing into Christmas, but that’s my scheduling problem. With that, let’s read.
