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Despite a very very poor title, this story is pretty amazing. The main character is a « good soldier « that lives by one old army motto « thinking is already desobeing ». He’s a elite warriors that take pride in his country and abide by the law and the orders he’s given with blind faith in the goodness of the decisions that are made for him. That makes him a little bit s*upid when it comes to assessing his own feeling, or even worse, making important decisions. He’s intelligent, but outside of combat proficiency he’s not so « autonomous, and he’s happy with it.for all of that, he will accept to wed the ultimate enemy of the Federation. Someone he will « never » understand, forgive, let even -love - as he has been the nemesis of mankind for no less than 2000 years. But it’s an order, énd for the good of all, he sill sacrifice.... little does he know that this will be the beginning of making him a full fledge « human « with a working heart and brain... and that will be immensely good to read.So there we are, no r*pe, (thanks god), no adsurd relationship development (yeah he’s not the kind to fraternize with the enemy, which is really goo) but after a slow start there will be quite a lot of action, intrigues, slowly revealing some quite heavy policical background. It never has time to get boring as the story develope in an ever changing universe (think : there is a lot more than space op in there,). Slow discovery, and puzzle bits, will slowly but surely bring our « simple » guy, to learn so much about that very famous enemy and the very dirty secrets of his own « country ». with all hope that love will grow to infinity and beyond, despite and maybe thanks to that harsh environmentIt is deep, very entertaining, and quite believable as far as humans interactions are involved (i can’t say about the science, it still sci fi ;)). There is food for the brain and for the heart.it is not « light « by any mean, which is very satisfactory in my humble opinion, so çf you care for a good plot, by all mean, please read this.Many thanks for the great translation that brought it our side of the world :)