Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

Published Aug. 26, 2014 by Tor Science Fiction.

ISBN:
9780765379382

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3 stars

I don't read many series because I have completionist tendencies (hell, I can barely convince myself to DNF a book I'm actively hating), but I'm slowly coming around to trying a few out. I also wanted to try dipping back into military sci-fi which I read a lot of in my early twenties, so this book was killing two birds with one stone with respect to my reading goals.

The premise alone was enough to get my interest; a space military organization only accepts new recruits that are at least 75-years-old, whisking them away to undergo some mystery medical treatment and then off to the front-lines fighting literal aliens, never to return back to earth. As you progress through the story it kinda feels like the idea of an army made up of old people came first and the (to me, weak) justification came afterwards, but whatever. This book definitely …