The Sagan Diary

meh. This didn't really feel like Jane Sagan. I wouldn't expect her ‘internal monologue' to sound exactly like her ‘soldier voice', but I'd expect to see similarities in the same person. While I did laugh during the sex chapter where she has no idea (or interest in) what John is talking about, that was about the only part of the novella that was engaging.

This was awful. As Scalzi says of himself in the introduction, he writes good action and good dialogue. Having made my way through two of his attempts to write female protagonists, I'm confident that this is something he can't do.

Angsty and too long, this internal monologue actually makes me like and respect his character of Jane Sagan a great deal less. Which is a shame, because I loved her in Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades, and in the small role she played in Last Colony :-(