A enjoyable addition to the old man's war universe.

I only discovered after reading this, that it's a retelling of "the last colony" which i have on the shelf, but apparently overlooked when i started this one, anyway it didn't stop me from enjoying the story immensely.

There something paradoxically in telling a chapter of "Old Man's War" from the viewpoint of a teenager and maybe that's the reason Schalzi does it.

Zoe, who we first met in "The ghost brigades" is a teenager who apart from the normal troubles related to growing up, also has to come to terms with, relocating to a new colony world and the small detail of being the de-facto goddess of a whole alien race.

Schalzi tells her story with a lot of humor, a fair degree of teenage bravado and his usual disregard for governments and authorities. it's not totally realistic at all times but it's newer dull.