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A review by icfasntw
Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh
3.0
QUICK PITCH: A desperate captain takes some jobs he shouldn't have and ends up way over his head.
VERDICT: Cherryh is extremely laconic, but it works here. She does more in a sentence than some writers can manage in a paragraph. And it's an interesting painting of desperation from two sides: Sandor is deeply lonely but maniacally dedicated to his ship (and, by extension, his family's legacy), while Allison is entwined in a world full of family and legacy but can't realize her ambitions.
VERDICT: Cherryh is extremely laconic, but it works here. She does more in a sentence than some writers can manage in a paragraph. And it's an interesting painting of desperation from two sides: Sandor is deeply lonely but maniacally dedicated to his ship (and, by extension, his family's legacy), while Allison is entwined in a world full of family and legacy but can't realize her ambitions.