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A Confederation of Valor (Confederation #1-2)
by
Tanya Huff
Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr's goal is to keep both her superior officers and her troops alive as they face deadly missions throughout the galaxy. She more than proves her mettle when a diplomatic assignment and a scientific expedition both turn dangerous.
Paperback, 624 pages
Published
December 5th 2006
by DAW
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Omnibus edition of Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor.
This is not what I normally think of when I think of miltary sci-fi.Most of those books were written by former military men who focus a lot on the weaponry and the fighting.There is nothing wrong with those types of books, in fact they are usually a lot of fun to read.The Valor stories just don't fit that type though.
The Valor series follows Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr.Basically a Staff Sergeant is the link between the officers and the...more
This is not what I normally think of when I think of miltary sci-fi.Most of those books were written by former military men who focus a lot on the weaponry and the fighting.There is nothing wrong with those types of books, in fact they are usually a lot of fun to read.The Valor stories just don't fit that type though.
The Valor series follows Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr.Basically a Staff Sergeant is the link between the officers and the...more
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This is the omnibus version of the first and second Valor books: Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor. They are both excellently written, very funny, and have a detailed military space-opera fantasy universe. It's obvious Tanya Huff was in the military non-commissioned ranks: she has all the jokes and the tone of grunts dealing with insane and stupid officers down pat.
In Valor's Choice, Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr takes a picked platoon of soldiers on a diplomatic mission to encourage a new...more
In Valor's Choice, Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr takes a picked platoon of soldiers on a diplomatic mission to encourage a new...more
So, just read this omnibus of Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor, by Tanya Huff. Huff isn't an auto-buy author for me, or at least she never has been . . . I like her books okay, but I don't go seek them out.
Well.
A friend recommended the Valor series to me, and I instantly bought the other two.
I enjoy military SF, at least as long as it's more adventure than blood-and-guts. Not that I want it all sanitized exactly, but I want the main character and at least some of the secondary charact...more
Well.
A friend recommended the Valor series to me, and I instantly bought the other two.
I enjoy military SF, at least as long as it's more adventure than blood-and-guts. Not that I want it all sanitized exactly, but I want the main character and at least some of the secondary charact...more
If I had a daughter, I would press this book into her hands so that she could truly see that women can be badasses and leaders just as sure as any male! Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is a beast! She's a Marine through and through. Tanya Huff portrays the 'Leave No One Behind' soldier as a profound leader in the face of truly horrific circumstances. "A Confederation of Valor" is actually two novels in one: "Valor's Choice" and "The Better Part of Valor." While the first book is more emotionally wrack...more
Two books in one.
Valor's Choice. Torin has just finished with one battle when she and the remains of her platoon are thrown into another a diplomatic mission that is supposed to see no combat. The new lieutenant also happens to be a man she met and slept with the night before. That actually has nothing to do with the story. The platoon has to survive them being blown out of the sky and attacked by a bunch of young Silsviss. Very good story. Had me biting my nails with each turn of the page. ****...more
Valor's Choice. Torin has just finished with one battle when she and the remains of her platoon are thrown into another a diplomatic mission that is supposed to see no combat. The new lieutenant also happens to be a man she met and slept with the night before. That actually has nothing to do with the story. The platoon has to survive them being blown out of the sky and attacked by a bunch of young Silsviss. Very good story. Had me biting my nails with each turn of the page. ****...more
Staff Sargeant Torin Kerr... she is awesome... she is in charge of her marines, and molds & deals with higher ups... all with determination, sincerity, and strength... doing exactly what needs to be done...
She does it in a future time, where the Confederation has contracted with Earth (150 years earlier) to be their soldiers against 'the Others'... bug like creatures that want to destroy the Confederation holdings... two other species (and a 3rd by the end of the 1st book) were also negotiat...more
She does it in a future time, where the Confederation has contracted with Earth (150 years earlier) to be their soldiers against 'the Others'... bug like creatures that want to destroy the Confederation holdings... two other species (and a 3rd by the end of the 1st book) were also negotiat...more
Valor's Choice: Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is a battle-hardened professional soldier. Her platoon is denied a well-deserved leave for an easy duty as an honor guard for a diplomatic mission. Enemies of the Confederation had been spotted in that sector of space however, so Torin is ready for anything.
The Better Part of Valor: Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is separated from her platoon and sent off on a dangerous assignment to protect an expedition to a seemingly empty spaceship of epic proportions.
Huf...more
The Better Part of Valor: Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is separated from her platoon and sent off on a dangerous assignment to protect an expedition to a seemingly empty spaceship of epic proportions.
Huf...more
Oh, wow. These books have been published for over a decade and I hadn't read them until this month! Woe is me!
But at least this two-for-one volume is still in print - a fact that by itself says something about its quality (or at least its popularity).
So, what's to love about this story? Well, the worldbuilding. In this distant future, Humans have been recruited by a Confederation of "more highly evolved" species to fight against the "Others," an aggressive and uncommunicative species that's atta...more
But at least this two-for-one volume is still in print - a fact that by itself says something about its quality (or at least its popularity).
So, what's to love about this story? Well, the worldbuilding. In this distant future, Humans have been recruited by a Confederation of "more highly evolved" species to fight against the "Others," an aggressive and uncommunicative species that's atta...more
I had read these before, but enjoyed them enough to read them again. Valor's Choice is about how Staff Sargent Kerr handles a new second lieutenant, while winning a new species as an ally and keeping as many of her people alive as possible. Author's note says her battle was loosely based on Rorke's Drift.
Better Part of Valor has Staff Sargent Kerr leading a reconnaissance mission on an unknown alien spacecraft, hampered by a incompetent captain, reporters, scientists, marines who have never work...more
Better Part of Valor has Staff Sargent Kerr leading a reconnaissance mission on an unknown alien spacecraft, hampered by a incompetent captain, reporters, scientists, marines who have never work...more
I had already read the first book when I got another edition out from the library and I love the main character, Torin Kerr. The second book deals with an adventure on a mysterious craft in the middle of nowhere, introducing some more new alien species and of course they run into trouble and have a cool space battle.
I'm not usually a fan of military themes, but the Staff Sergeant's point of view is such a good story, the rapport with the Marines is awesome, I love the banter and humour even in s...more
I'm not usually a fan of military themes, but the Staff Sergeant's point of view is such a good story, the rapport with the Marines is awesome, I love the banter and humour even in s...more
I really liked this book. Huff does a great job making a kick-ass strong female lead.
Kerr is smart, tough-as-nails, committed to the Corps and the troops she leads, and likes sex as much as the next Marine.
In the end I feel like I understand the military and those in it a little more and it makes my respect for our troops that much stronger.
Oh and who can hate a book with humans fighting alongside aliens that will have sex with anything and aliens that can and will eat anything. This series...more
Kerr is smart, tough-as-nails, committed to the Corps and the troops she leads, and likes sex as much as the next Marine.
In the end I feel like I understand the military and those in it a little more and it makes my respect for our troops that much stronger.
Oh and who can hate a book with humans fighting alongside aliens that will have sex with anything and aliens that can and will eat anything. This series...more
I loved these first 2 installments of the confederation series. I like military sci-fi, and I love kickass female characters and both were included here. Torin Kerr is one of the strongest female characters I have ever come across. Yes, ultimately she has to follow orders, but she does her damndest to keep all of her Marines alive while following them and it’s her passion to keep her Marines alive that’s one of her best qualities. In addition to a strong female lead character, the series (so far...more
Military science fiction about Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr and the Marines under her command (as well as a cast of loathsome superior officers and a romantic interest or two). This book comprised of the first two books in the series: Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor.
I enjoyed this book for its humor and its strong, sarcastic female lead, as well as for the delicious way the author differentiates between alien species--while making even the most alien among them very relatable. That, an...more
I enjoyed this book for its humor and its strong, sarcastic female lead, as well as for the delicious way the author differentiates between alien species--while making even the most alien among them very relatable. That, an...more
I am fond of Tanya Huff, and occasionally like military scifi. This was a good combination. Hard-bitten, wisecracking female staff sergeant, aliens that are "the most indiscriminately enthusiastic life-forms in the Galaxy" (and irresistible if they forget to wear their pheromone scrubbers,) and odd missions that go badly wrong. Nothing too terribly profound, but fun stuff for sure.
Just what I needed - a fun and lighthearted read with lots of humor and tension. This is a compilation of two novels, and I was glad of that when I finished the first because I wanted more.
Now, be warned - the main character is astoundingly competent at everything she does, but at least she escapes Mary Suedom through the fact that she is only perfect at those things within her job description.
The first book was a bit better than the second, I think - more depth of characterization on the minor...more
Now, be warned - the main character is astoundingly competent at everything she does, but at least she escapes Mary Suedom through the fact that she is only perfect at those things within her job description.
The first book was a bit better than the second, I think - more depth of characterization on the minor...more
This book totally sucked me in and would not let me pay attention to anything else. There were very few slow parts, and I don't necessarily care for military plotlines. The world she's built is so vast and exciting, though, and Torin is a great, very in-charge character. I'm definitely interested in seeing her more in action!
Now given, I love basically everything Tanya Huff has written. But I went into this one with reservations, because the whole future/aliens/space travel thing really didn't appeal. It did take a little while to settle in, but once I'd gotten used to the various aliens and quirks of writing, MAN was this a fun read! It's an omnibus version, and I just read all the way through. It's got Huff's awesome sense of humour all through, and I definitely came to love Torin Kerr. There appears to be at leas...more
Great military sf. almost give it 5 stars but I've read better. The main character is a little bit over the top, but I wouldn't have any other way.
Mar 31, 2011
Paul Wilson
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I'm enjoying it. Mind you, I've read Tanya Huff before and I liked her work then too.
I'm not a big fan of military sci-fi, but I'm not able to put this book down. I just wish there were pictures of the creatures; she doesn't describe them very much, so I don't have a mind-picture of them except in the most vague way. Either describe them well, or give us a picture!
These books were better the second time around than they were the first time.
military space opera at its easy-to-read and slightly awful finest
Mar 10, 2011
Tamahome
is currently reading it
28/282 (first novel) seems fun, no action yet
Fantastic. Torin Kerr, a Marine without peer.
The Better Part of Valor didn't make much sense and never explained how the competition found the vessel in the first instance.
Not my favorite of her books. I think I just don't read much in the sci-fi space & rocket genre any more. But still got a few laughs, as always with her writing, and didn't put it down half-read.
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I couldn't get through this. I got halfway through chapter two, and had to skip ahead to chapter three. I read a bit, from there I skipped a head to chapter four. Each time I skipped a head I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Finally I had to put the book down. I just found the bit I read boring to no end. It might get much much better further on into the book but I just didn't care enough about any thing that was going on to even try.
You might notice that the cover for this omnibus is like a tube-altered pic from the painting Paul Youll did for the cover to The Better Part of Valor. Because that's exactly what it is. I contacted him to see if he did the manipulation and he says no--he didn't even get paid when they used this image, because HE didn't do it -- someone on staff at the publisher altered his painting. Waiting to hear the outcome of THAT!
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