Featured Official Review: Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And... [November 2019 Book of the Month]
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Thank you for your insightful and concise review.
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On page 4 on the Kindle Cloud Reader, it says, "The Assistant Engineering Officer in rumpled khakis, was making his rounds and came through the aft hatch asking, 'Everything is as it should be with the desalination plant, Bates?'"
The comma placing is kind of weird. I would have written, "The Assistant Engineering Officer was making his rounds in his rumpled khakis, stopping at the aft hatch to ask, 'Everything is as it should be with the desalination plant, Bates?"
I know it's a minor detail but I think it would add to the flow of the story better.
I also wanted to note that the ending of the prologue was beautifully done. This sentence, for example, "They were both completely unaware that the freshwater they were producing in the ship's evaporators would kill more of the ship's crew than all of the People's Army of North Vietnam ever would." It has the ominousness of the beginning of a horror movie. There was just something about how that sentence was written that made me (almost) want to read further. The writing is concise, descriptive and informed - it is the kind simple writing style (as opposed to the complexity of old literature or poetry) that I personally prefer.
I also got a kicked out of the Mr. Borg calling the coffee "java". Good way to plant us into the time period using dialogue! Like I said before, war and political books are not my forte, but I would say this is book wasn't so hard to read for its genre.
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