Dagger Point (Battletech, No. 46)

I loved the book, I've read all the Capellan books 4 or 5 times each, I think that the rise of the Capellan Confederation is going to make the future of the Inner Sphere very exciting. Sun-Tzu is the smartest ruler of all the Houses, in my opinion. This book is just basically giving you some details about one of the worlds the Confederation conquered. Not much is happening right now in the Inner Sphere so you gotta expect some detailed, world-battle books. I like how they started talking about the Death Commandos more.

Dagger Point is a good novel. The Eridani Light House are brought to Milos to resist Sun-Tzu's attempts to take the entire St. Ives Compact. A fair amount of Tech fights, good character interaction as well as some interesting side plots make the novel a good read. It is a big improvement in comparison to Gressman's previous massive battles which were all but impossible to follow. It would be nice if authors other than Stackpole (whose novels are the best admittingly) had more opportunities to affect the macro-cosmos. Until this is not the case, however, we have to take what is offered and this novel is quite good at that. I would definitely recommend it. Just don't expect any drastic changes to the BT universe to come from this novel (and that is about the only criticizm I have for this novel).

Dagger Point, by Thomas Gressman, offers a non-Capellan viewpoint into the family dispute known as the Capellan Solution. Focusing on the Eridani Light Horse and their attempts to bring order to a situation that's chaotic at the best of times, Dagger Point shows the difficulties in 'peacekeeping' between two factions that aren't interested in peace.Additionally, Gressman's writing style seems to be evolving as well. There are fewer of the straight exposition scenes that were evident in The Hunters and Sword and Fire, and an attempt to pass more information to the readers through character conversation. The only drawback to this, however, is the tendancy for a chapter to end up a conversation between three or four characters who seem to be floating about in limbo, talking about action that doesn't seem quite real.Overall, though, a solid read.