Fortress Frontier

How it reads

Fortress Frontier is fantasy (military portal fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in several locations, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are war, friendship and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 344 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.