The Hot Gate

I continue to enjoy the ongoing story, but it felt like I was reading the ARC instead of the real one.

Just feels a little rushed and could have benefited from some more polish. The ‘sabotage' subplot especially I think will leave many people puzzled, I feel it should have been resolved within this book and not the next one (although I believe I understand what happened, shoot me a message if curious).

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The Hot Gate is the third novel in John Ringo???s TROY RISING series. This series started off well with the first half of the first book, Live Free or Die. Then Ringo???s protagonist, Tyler Vernon, turned out to be an outspoken Nazi-sympathizer and TROY RISING plummeted. The second book, Citadel, was better, but still not good enough to recommend. (Please see my reviews for specifics.) I began reading the third book, The Hot Gate, hoping that things would continue to improve, but only because the publisher sent me a free review copy.

Unfortunately, the story regresses in book three. I read most of The Hot Gate, but couldn???t finish it. I don???t want to spend a lot of time on this review because chances are that you???re not reading this unless you???re thinking about reading The Hot Gate, which means you probably have enjoyed the series so far. If that???s the case, you???ll like The Hot Gate a lot better than I did.

The story continues to follow Dana, the pilot introduced in Citadel. Dana has been transferred to a new battle station where she???s in charge of a crew made up of Latin American and Muslim recruits. Uh-oh. Immediately you should wonder (or suspect) what John Ringo???s going to do with this. Not surprisingly, he proceeds to stereotype and insult the entire Latin American culture (as if it is one entity) and the Muslim culture, too. The Latinos are sloppy, lazy, stupid, emotional, liars, thieves, womanizers, and obsessed with machismo. The Muslims freak out about the way the women are dressed. I could give examples of all this, but I really don???t want to spend any more time writing about TROY RISING. Besides all this annoying stuff (which makes up most of the plot), the story was boring.

I should mention that a lot of readers like the TROY RISING books. The first two books, especially, get high marks at Amazon and Goodreads. I am an educated patriotic conservative white suburban Protestant who doesn???t see herself as especially ???sensitive??? and not particularly worried about ???political correctness,??? but these books offended me.