A review by bdplume
Declassified by Dayton Ward, Marco Palmieri, David Mack, Kevin Dilmore

3.0

This was a collection of hit or miss short stories. The first one didn't land for me and I think that set a tone for the book. the other three are pretty good, especially the first-person perspective Tim Pennington piece. If you care about the Vanguard storyline at all, this one's worth a read as the last story features some fairly important plot developments. On the whole this was OK, but the Vanguard series has seemed pretty sweeping and broad which is a little harder to convey in four short stories. If they'd tried to capture that feel by just adding a few more stories, it might've weakened the whole thing, though. Now I'm rambling. My point is I think the elements in these stories would've worked better as part of one long novel than as four smaller units.