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A review by nonesensed
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
3.0
Subtly kicked out of the military academy she'd dreamed of graduating top of the class at for a long time, Kylara "Ky" Vatta is set adrift, emotionally and career-wise. Being an heir to the massive Vatta transport and trade empire, she's not exactly helpless or destitute, but she has little choice in the solution her family brings her: becoming captain (almost in-name-only) of a ship destined for the scrapheap. Take a year long trip to sell the old ship for scraps and return when the scandal of her sudden dropout has died down. But Ky is a Vatta through and through - and Vattas are terrible at sticking to a pre-planned route when there's possible profit to be made.
A very decent book, with more focus on plot than characters. That's not to say that the characters are flat or one dimensional. No, they have plenty of emotional moments speckled throughout the book, but they're not the main focus of the story. This is a story about war, trade and politics, told from the POV of one person caught up in it all. A book in the science fiction/war genre, this book leans more toward war/politics/trade aka if you switched the space ships for sea ships, the story would be much the same.
That happens to not really be my thing, so I won't continue this series, but there's nothing "wrong" with it. It's well-written and it deals with its subject matter well, so if that sounds like your thing, try this book out!
A very decent book, with more focus on plot than characters. That's not to say that the characters are flat or one dimensional. No, they have plenty of emotional moments speckled throughout the book, but they're not the main focus of the story. This is a story about war, trade and politics, told from the POV of one person caught up in it all. A book in the science fiction/war genre, this book leans more toward war/politics/trade aka if you switched the space ships for sea ships, the story would be much the same.
That happens to not really be my thing, so I won't continue this series, but there's nothing "wrong" with it. It's well-written and it deals with its subject matter well, so if that sounds like your thing, try this book out!