A review by maxed
The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

3.0

A far cry from the excellent "Firestar" series, this book seems to be a somewhat cliche space opera, but without charm of Bujold or epic action of Weber. It's not a bad book, but nothing write home about: a quarter of unlikely comrades in an inter-planetary search for MacGuffin is a plot that has been done too many times to stand on its own, and I don't see any additional merit here, though the book is competent for its genre. The setting is somewhat original, but not to the point where it can carry the weight on its own, the characters are OK, but not too engaging, or funny. I expected more, and I'll put off reading the next book in the series for now.