A review by fisk42
Isard's Revenge by Michael A. Stackpole

3.0

Not a terrible book but it does suffer from feeling very trope-heavy. Isard is back from the dead and there is a clone of her running around. Random Imperial ruler is the bad guy but he's apparently exceedingly below average but competent enough to claim a system of worlds. Perhaps my biggest complaint is that Stackpole doesn't every actually kill anyone who he has really introduced to his readers. The only pilots who ever die are the random "redshirts". Not only that but he pretends to kill off a couple of the more known Rogues and brings them back mere chapters later. Same stunt that was pulled in book 3 or 4 by him.