aimiller's review
3.0
I will say first I received this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publishers for the opportunity to read this.
I found this book overall to be sort of meh; for all that the book has Margaret Witt (and a coauthor) as the author, it's weirdly told in 3rd person, and in this very odd, kind of stilted voice? That choice was interesting, but made it hard to get through the book. I'm also wary as a person of the US military, and there's a lot of the sort of military bruhaha that makes me uncomfortable; the homonationalism was just uncomfortable, and it was especially hard to read about Witt's early experiences of sexual harassment. I know, given Major Witt's story, that I should have been primed to have that, but it was still uncomfortable.
The value of this book, for me, was in the way the book explained legalese and the arguments about DADT, which definitely have some historical value. If you want a fairly comprehensive and approachable explanation of the legal arguments around it, I would definitely read this book!
I found this book overall to be sort of meh; for all that the book has Margaret Witt (and a coauthor) as the author, it's weirdly told in 3rd person, and in this very odd, kind of stilted voice? That choice was interesting, but made it hard to get through the book. I'm also wary as a person of the US military, and there's a lot of the sort of military bruhaha that makes me uncomfortable; the homonationalism was just uncomfortable, and it was especially hard to read about Witt's early experiences of sexual harassment. I know, given Major Witt's story, that I should have been primed to have that, but it was still uncomfortable.
The value of this book, for me, was in the way the book explained legalese and the arguments about DADT, which definitely have some historical value. If you want a fairly comprehensive and approachable explanation of the legal arguments around it, I would definitely read this book!
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