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A review by angrywombat
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
4.0
I'd heard of Elizabeth Moon, and that she apparently wrote good books. I picked the start of one of her series at random and dumped it on the TBR pile.... and I got an awesome surprise when I finally got around to reading it!
Its late, so I'll try to keep this short.
This is the story of Kylara Vatta - the daughter of a shipping magnate who manages to get herself thrown out of the local planetary military academy, and is "hidden away" from the media by being given command of one of her father's ships... a run down junker that is on it's final run to be scrapped. But Ky decides she wants to try to fix the ship up and picks up an extra cargo.... that puts her smack bang in the middle of a war breaking out.
This feels like it was ripped straight out of someone's "Traveller" rpg sessions, and it is awesome. A mix of space ships, military, and trading. Ky is all about making a profit and proving to her family that she is a great captain, she takes risks, deals with problems, and is put under lots of pressure - and comes out successful (at least to some people). We have strange planets and cultures, space stations, trading guilds and pirates.
The only character we really get to know is Kylara Vatta, but she's a great character to get to know :) A little headstrong, a little too trusting, but with a solid moral core and an ambition second to none. Once I learned that there are (at least) 5 more books with her as the main character I gave a little dance of joy!
You'd like this if : You liked "The Expanse" series, you like your scifi to be driven by character decisions.
I'm off to get the next book in the series now!
Its late, so I'll try to keep this short.
This is the story of Kylara Vatta - the daughter of a shipping magnate who manages to get herself thrown out of the local planetary military academy, and is "hidden away" from the media by being given command of one of her father's ships... a run down junker that is on it's final run to be scrapped. But Ky decides she wants to try to fix the ship up and picks up an extra cargo.... that puts her smack bang in the middle of a war breaking out.
This feels like it was ripped straight out of someone's "Traveller" rpg sessions, and it is awesome. A mix of space ships, military, and trading. Ky is all about making a profit and proving to her family that she is a great captain, she takes risks, deals with problems, and is put under lots of pressure - and comes out successful (at least to some people). We have strange planets and cultures, space stations, trading guilds and pirates.
The only character we really get to know is Kylara Vatta, but she's a great character to get to know :) A little headstrong, a little too trusting, but with a solid moral core and an ambition second to none. Once I learned that there are (at least) 5 more books with her as the main character I gave a little dance of joy!
You'd like this if : You liked "The Expanse" series, you like your scifi to be driven by character decisions.
I'm off to get the next book in the series now!