Five stars with as asterisk

This is a book you will either love or burn after 10-20 pages hoping to be rendering blind so you never see the words in your nightmares. Visualize Starship Troopers redone as a Stalinist dystopia with good elements of Warhammer 40K, Bill the Galactic Hero and the RPG Paranoia. It is dark, spikey, nihilistic, political, and amazingly funny. The characters are nearly all repulsive, the setting is so much worse than than they are that they come off as mildly sympathetic and everything that happens is bloody, horrid and futile. Some of the most awesome reading I have ever seen but if ANY of the above seems bad to you, do NOT read this book as it will be the stuff of nightmares. ( )