A mission gone wrong. Innocent lives have been lost. Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn’t something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth’s first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn’t have prepared for. For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start…a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming. A new world with new challenges, but the mission has changed. If you loved Old Man’s War and Ender’s Game, you’ll love Genesis – First Colony , a new military science fiction series.

It’s been a while since I’ve started a science fiction series that so totally and completely did not fit into what I thought it would be.  It’s nothing like Old Man’s War or Ender’s Game, despite anything said in the synopsis above.  There’s a whole lot of “Manliest Man In The Universe” type of machismo, but unlike OMW or Ender’s Game, it’s never really shown in any real way.  Maybe this series is for someone else (and for a $1 for the first book, why not give it a try), but it’s not for me.