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Kristin McTiernan's avatar

I like blue boy and Army Guide. The two lighter ones make it harder to focus on the text

Rian Stone's avatar

one thing to remember is that WYDIWYG. the screen never does capture what can work in print.

Sean riggsby's avatar

The cover reminds me of the executioner series by don pendleton. Any of his first 38 books. My dad was a huge fan. After he died I read them.

Rian Stone's avatar

I've been recently introduced to the series. I'm surprised I never knew about them during my hardy boys teenage phase

Travis's avatar

This is hard, but Blue Boy is out. I think Army Guide works amongst the other covers. BUT -- if you ever consider boxing Frame and Softbone together, Golden Child would be a great cover to make a boxed set out of all of it.

Rian Stone's avatar

If they had box set capabilities I'd probably bundle them all up with their own covers.

Travis's avatar

That's fair. Then Army Guide it is.

Now, this would be a LOT of work, but if you wanted to tell the guy's story different from both of their first-person perspectives -- do Softbone in Army and the other one in Blue Boy. Close enough, but not exact mirrors. AND it matches the plot twist for why their eye patches are on different eyes.

White Trash Troglodyte's avatar

The lighter ones feel like fantasy style. I don't have a rhyme or reason, just what I think.

I personally like army guide, I think it speaks a bit to the homage of the author. However, I saw Blue boy first.

Looking forward to reading.

Sean riggsby's avatar

It is meant for more mature audience that could be one of the reasons you never heard of it before. If you do try reading it, Dan Pendleton wrote the first 38 books but then after that they had ghost riders writing the series, but the books after the first 38 are very good up to a certain point probably about to 110

Krom's avatar

The first one is the one I found first in the list. Probably because the title pops more.

Rian Stone's avatar

It's funny. My wife found the golden boy first. Really getting me to second guess now.