Oh my god this book has so many action scenes.
I think I've written before about the circular flow chart of Battletech, Star Wars, X-Wing, and Michael Stackpole. One of the points of contention in the original Battletech books (I haven't read any of the newer ones) is how action light they are. For the "core" books that actually advance the storyline, you tend to get 1 or 2 big (stand up 'mech fight) and maybe 3 or 4 (bar fight, near assassination, etc.) scenes in a book. There are individual books or sub series that go heavier, but that's the broad trend. The short scenes are often only a couple pages, and even the long ones rarely run into the double digits (and that's often with other stuff breaking them up). I mathed it out back in high school and they often come in at 15% or so of the whole book (30-40 pages in a 350ish page mass market.) Even after accounting for front and back matter, getting up to 30% would qualify as an action heavy book. Instead, as the Amazon reviews liked to complain about...
