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Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family’s misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down. Expelled from the Academy in disgrace–and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future–Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity’s door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride– and a shot at redemption–as captain of a Vatta Transport ship. It’s a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet’s oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky’s style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can’t stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture–in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course. By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she’s got more going for her than just her family’s famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky’s change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it’s her military training and born-soldier’s instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . . From the Hardcover edition.

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I cracked the book s...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 15:07:15 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 27 16:03:45 -0800 2008 Lois McMaster Bujold, who (besides stuff like Star Wars, I guess) provided my first exposure to that genre. The problem, I think, is that there are really no (developed, memorable) characters in Trading in Danger besides the protagoni...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 08:50:58 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 10:08:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 15 04:02:32 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 08 13:46:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 00:10:02 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 10:32:35 -0800 2008
This held my attention well, even if it comes off as mechanical at times, reading like a treatise on space economics complete with the cost/bene...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 20:43:32 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:06:09 -0800 2009 Trading in Danger, the first book in the Vatta's War trilogy, is a regular old space opera. This is a coming-of-age story, as Ky Vatta takes command of a commercial ship headed to the scrap heap--or at least that was the plan. She ends up in the middle of a planetary war with hard decisions to make ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Sep 04 16:33:05 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 16:34:44 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 20:05:12 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 20:30:01 -0700 2008 2
The setting is somewhere in our far, far future. We're spacefaring and have spread so far that Earth is not even mentioned in the entire series except in a very bri...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 07 21:28:19 -0800 2007 Wed Jul 09 08:46:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 06:21:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 06:24:20 -0700 2009 The main character, Ky Vatta,is a young woman from a very successful family and even though...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:53:41 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:57:22 -0800 2008
This novel was destroyed by it's own plot. I can't imagine a more boring plot than one involving a space transport ship captain and the intricacies of shipping and trade negotiations. Wow.

To be fair, the protagonist was a sympathetic character, and not overly bland, but giv...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 19:17:19 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 16:58:13 -0700 2009 1 John McClane.

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I do find it interesting how similar the basic plot outline is to The Warrior's Apprentice, though the characters and world-building are very different.]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 16:36:25 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 21:32:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 07:35:21 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 06:56:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 06:47:38 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 06:56:09 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 12:49:21 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 18:52:06 -0800 2008 The Warrior's Apprentice . The main character comes from money and gets kicked out of military academy at the very beginning of the book through no fault of their own. Then a trip snowballs into a disaster over which the main character triump...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:37:41 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:39:14 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 20:18:48 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 10:50:15 -0800 2009