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At first, I felt like this was going to be a single-track MilSF with big spaceships and disgruntled warriors, but soon I was very happy to discover multidimensional characters representing a much wider kind of cast than I usually see in these types of novels. Poetry, spies, sentient ships, (reminding me a lot of Leckie), and of course, disgruntled grunts fill these pages.
But do you know what I like the most about this? The ability to escape the world of war into a hard life of altruism, a-la the ...more
But do you know what I like the most about this? The ability to escape the world of war into a hard life of altruism, a-la the ...more
In this space opera there are many sentient races in a loose organization called the Multiplicity with human space referred to as the Generality. Within those is the House of Reclamation, a human-created organization that comes to the rescue of spaceships and their crews in trouble, either through accident or attack. We start the action here following the Trouble Dog, a Carnivore class battle cruiser that was sickened by her role in war atrocities and quit to join the House. The Trouble Dog and
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The story opens with an horrific act of brutality to stop a war, then continues years later where members of both sides live in an uneasy peace. The author presents different viewpoint characters from both sides of the former conflict, Sal Konstanz (the captain of the ship Trouble Dog), Ona Sudak (a poet), Ashton Childe (a spy for one of the sides), and Trouble Dog (a former warship involved in the war crime).
All these characters are brought together when someone unknown fires at a cruise ship t ...more
All these characters are brought together when someone unknown fires at a cruise ship t ...more
I really quite liked this. The lighter, redemptive feel was refreshing after some of the grimmer SF I've read recently.
The pacing was great and everything moves along well. I absolutely loved Trouble Dog, and her flawed captain, Sal, was a great compliment. I'm not sure that I liked having all those POVs written in the first person, but that is a matter of personal taste. Also, the whole storyline relating to Ona Sudek felt a bit unnecessary when taken as part of the whole. I would rather have ...more
The pacing was great and everything moves along well. I absolutely loved Trouble Dog, and her flawed captain, Sal, was a great compliment. I'm not sure that I liked having all those POVs written in the first person, but that is a matter of personal taste. Also, the whole storyline relating to Ona Sudek felt a bit unnecessary when taken as part of the whole. I would rather have ...more
I really enjoyed this - great if you're looking for some escapist, character-driven SF set in a really interesting world.
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3.5 stars. There was a lot to enjoy in the plot but being in the heads of the characters became repetitive. Loved the little critter who kept the ship going! (Listened to audio and couldn’t tell what the name was.)
6/10
Aug 26, 2016
Amber (Books of Amber)
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Jul 16, 2018
Niki Hawkes - The Obsessive Bookseller
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