{"id":4717,"date":"2026-04-29T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:53:11","slug":"book-wraithkin-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/book-wraithkin-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Wraithkin (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1481888815i\/33397288.jpg\" alt=\"Wraithkin\" width=\"201\" height=\"293\" \/>Wraithkin<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2016<br \/>Author: Jason C\u00f3rdova<br \/>Length: 381 pages<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, I picked up this eBook for free because I was trying to fill my new Kindle with things to read. Now that I finally got around to reading it, I found this military sci-fi book to be mostly just OK. Granted, I haven\u2019t read a ton of the genre, but I can understand its appeal to others. I\u2019m usually focused on the sci-fi of this genre, so when it\u2019s not that strong in a book like this, I tend to find things to nitpick. I\u2019m sure if someone likes military sci-fi that they\u2019d definitely enjoy this.<\/p>\n<p>The vibe I got out of <em>Wraithkin<\/em> was somewhat akin to <em>Warhammer 40,000<\/em> mixed with Seal Team 6. The reader follows these super-soldiers as they are told by high-up leadership what to do when engaging in a war against alien species. Of course, we have one of those generic male fantasies about the main character doing whatever it takes to rescue his wife\/girlfriend\/lover, which itself leads the plot to the normal \u201care you crazy?\u201d places it usually goes. Which is fun for a bit, even if it wears out its welcome after a while.<\/p>\n<p>My main issue with this book was that it didn\u2019t feel like sci-fi. So many of the names of the characters, planets, and other accoutrements sounded Hispanic to the point that it made me wonder if Mexico had taken over the universe. There wasn\u2019t anything terribly alien about much of the story, even though the reader is told that these aliens are the worst. The lack of diversity pulled me out of the immersion, since I\u2019d expect some weird creatures or at least less Earth-based settings on foreign worlds (with Earth-based discrimination castes). Still, it has a good setup at the end for anyone who wants to continue with this story.<\/p>\n<p>A military sci-fi book that skimps on a lot of the sci-fi trappings, I give <em>Wraithkin<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> <strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WraithkinYear: 2016Author: Jason C\u00f3rdovaLength: 381 pages Somewhere along the line, I picked up this eBook for free because I was trying to fill my new Kindle with things to read. Now that I finally got around to reading it, I found this military sci-fi book to be mostly just OK. Granted, I haven\u2019t read a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[9,55,4494,4495,4492,1710,2325,4491,8,337,4493,4497,4496,4490,4489,4488],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-book","tag-9","tag-book","tag-caste","tag-caste-system","tag-jason-cordova","tag-military","tag-military-sci-fi","tag-names","tag-review","tag-sci-fi","tag-seal-team-6","tag-the-kin-wars","tag-the-kin-wars-saga","tag-warhammer","tag-warhammer-40k","tag-wraithkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}