Monday, February 15, 2010

Marque and Reprisal / Elizabeth Moon


Marque and Reprisal

(category: science fiction, military)
book 2 of Vatta's War by

Elizabeth Moon

published by Del Rey / Random House in 2004, read in August 2009

Agamedes' rating: 8 out of 10


Agamedes' opinion:

What a lot of fun! Almost-military SF: the heroine is a trader but needs to organise her crew for fighting. All the good guys are good, all the bad guys are obviously evil. Okay, there’s the tricky con-man – but he maintains his in-for-himself attitude while acting heroically. (And, will he get the girl?) The characters are perhaps too nice to be real, everyone is super-skilled at whatever they do. (Though there has been genetic improvement of intellect, to explain that.) Problems are overcome soooo skilfully. I loved it!

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