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The Heart of Valor (Confederation #3)
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine's marine. She'd survived more deadly encounters-and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive-than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep that record intact. But since her last mission, she'd been sidelined into endless briefings and debriefings with no end in sight. So, of course, she'd jumped at the ...more
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May 7th 2009
by Tantor Media Inc
(first published June 5th 2007)
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The third of Tanya Huff’s Confederation series. For those who haven’t encountered the series yet it’s a boots’ eye view military sci-fi, heavy on command structure but always viewed from the NCO/grunts on the ground perspective. Those looking for anything deep or meaningful should look away now. It has no noticeable political or philosophical agenda beyond war is hell but someone’s got to do it. It follows the career of Torin Kerr, a female career military NCO. The first time we meet her in the ...more
I am still loving this series. Torin, newly promoted (though she really would rather stay away from being top brass) to gunny sargeant has agreed to accompany Major Svensson as an aide to Crucible. Crucible is the training planet for the Marines. That's where they put all their learning to practical applications. The planet sounds kind of cool - the marines have a few different training situations complete with terrain and weather variations;winter with below zero temperatures or tropical wit...more
Torin Kerr is now a Gunnery Sergeant. She is assigned to babysit a Major who has recently recovered from very serious injuries, and who has arm bones made of experimental plastics. They travel to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, and embed with a training platoon going through their rotation. Things soon start to go wrong as the Crucible systems go out of control. In parallel, Torin’s now boyfriend, a salvage operator she met in The Better Part of Valor, investigates a possible alien i...more
I love this series. The main character is kick-ass and the world is wonderfully, solidly filtered through her eyes. And the world? How can you not love a military composed of humans, aliens obsessed with sex, and aliens that can (and will) eat pretty much anything? Huff's ability to make me laugh in the middle of otherwise serious scenarios is amazing.
Although apparently I read books 1 and 2 too long ago to remember the details that kept getting referenced in this book. Ah, the ...more
Although apparently I read books 1 and 2 too long ago to remember the details that kept getting referenced in this book. Ah, the ...more
84 out of 100 for 2010
In case you're counting, I did not skip 83 but instead re-read an Elizabeth Moon novel for a class I'm teaching (Victory Conditions). Hey, when you're trying to plow through 100, you count re reads.
Another continuation of Tanya Huff's confederation series. Huff is really statring to grow on me; I'm comign to realize ther's a real divid in Military SF between those who write bout tactics and use officers as their main character and those who write about...more
In case you're counting, I did not skip 83 but instead re-read an Elizabeth Moon novel for a class I'm teaching (Victory Conditions). Hey, when you're trying to plow through 100, you count re reads.
Another continuation of Tanya Huff's confederation series. Huff is really statring to grow on me; I'm comign to realize ther's a real divid in Military SF between those who write bout tactics and use officers as their main character and those who write about...more
I'm a big Tanya Huff fan, so I picked up her latest Confederation novel, The Heart of Valor. It continues following Marine Torrin Kerr's military career, this time with a stay to a testing ground planet with a group of recruits, Major Svensson, and his doctor going really, really wrong as the battle simulations are turning deadly. Torrin is a fun, smart, snarky character and great main POV narrator, and the aliens of the Confederation are interesting and different. You feel invested in these peo...more
Tanya Huff's Confederation novels are still maintaining combat readiness as of the third one, The Heart of Valor. This time around we've got Torin Kerr, newly promoted to Gunnery Sergeant, being grilled in depth about her adventures in Book 2--and leaping at the chance to escape endless debriefings even if it means she has to babysit a convalescent major and a platoon of Marine recruits on a training planet. Problem is, the planet's supposed to train the recruits, not kill them.
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I couldn't get book 2 of Huff's Confederation books in e-book form, so I settled for Book 3, after re-reading VALOR'S CHOICE. It's semi-standard military science fiction--Torin Kerr has been promoted to a Gunnery Sergeant, and is stuck on the Marines training station to give briefings on the new Confederation allies encountered in the first book. In book 2, she also went out on a first-contact exploratory mission to investigate a big unknown alien ship, where weird stuff happened. Both those eve...more
Third book in the Confederation series. Torin Kerr has been promoted to Gunnery Sergeant and is busy giving de-briefings about Big Yellow, the alien ship she encountered in The Better Part of Valor. She gets the chance to take a break and spend two weeks on Crucible, the planet used for final combat training of new Marine recruits. (Only Gunnery Sergeant Kerr could view this as a "break".) Soon after arrival, everything goes to pieces as someone, presumable the Others, takes over co...more
Gunnery Sergenant Torin Kerr is back again, kicking ass and keeping folk alive in the heat of battle. As I become more and more emmersed in the world of Huff's making, I still have no idea what the H'San look like. Still the Di'Taykan and the Krai make great soldiers in arms, as Kerr is chosen to accompany a recovering General, his civilian doctor and a platoon of new newb Marines to Cruicible, an intense battle-training planet designed to train efficent soldiers. Needless to say that ...more
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As with most of Huff's books, this was very hard to put down. This is excellent military fiction, with an SF slant to it. I've never been in the military, but to this civilian's eyes this seems like it's probably fairly true to what basic training is really like. The characterizations were quite good, as was the plot. I really like Torin Kerr and hope Huff continues writing about her for a bunch more books.
I'd have given this five stars, but for a couple things. First, the time on...more
I'd have given this five stars, but for a couple things. First, the time on...more
Just as Gunnery Sgt. (she got promoted!) Torin Kerr and her lover, salvage operator Craig Ryder, start to notice that other people don't remember the same things about the alien ship from book #2 as well as they do, she is assigned to accompany a biologically-rebuilt officer on a medical evaluation to the Marine training planet of Crucible. Things almost immediately start to go awry in unpredictable ways: the senior Drill Instructor starts behaving erratically, and the preprogrammed drones seem ...more
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Torin Kerr, promoted to Gunnery Sargaent... at base, providing information about the Slyss... and is invited to go to Crucible, the marine 'real life' training facility... before she goes, she and Craig realize that no one remembers their freedom from Big Yellow via its escape pod (craig wants them to make good on his right to salvage)...
She goes to Crucible as guard to a doctor and a major, who is recovering - having had an arm regrown... but almost immediately when they get there...more
She goes to Crucible as guard to a doctor and a major, who is recovering - having had an arm regrown... but almost immediately when they get there...more
I started reading Tanya Huff’s Confederation novels a while back after picking up the omnibus of the first two novels. The world was fantastic, the characters were believable, and Kerr was just all kinds of awesome. I must admit that I was a little hesitant in reading Heart of Valor because of the return of Craig Ryder, the stubborn love interest from the previous book, he seemed a little unnecessary in that capacity.
After fighting the Silsviss and exploring Big Yellow, Gunnery Ser...more
After fighting the Silsviss and exploring Big Yellow, Gunnery Ser...more
One of the infamous kitchen books is finished. I tend to keep books in various places. The Heart of Valor was in the discard bin at the local library and was handy for reading a few pages while waiting to move onto the next step of cooking/baking/coffee making.
That the adventures of Torin Kerr is part of series is not a drawback in reading this installment. Enough background is given throughout the story to enable the reader to understand what Big Yellow is, and how the Confederatio...more
That the adventures of Torin Kerr is part of series is not a drawback in reading this installment. Enough background is given throughout the story to enable the reader to understand what Big Yellow is, and how the Confederatio...more
After a three-year hiatus, Huff returns to one of my favorite worlds: that of Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, who has been promoted to Gunnery Sergeant Kerr after her last encounter with an alien species. This is the third book in the Confederation series, and while it can easily be read as a stand-alone novel it really can best be treasured after having read the first two books in the series. My favorite is the Better Part of Valor. Kerr's world used to be uncomplicated: she was a Marine, and the...more
Part of my Father's day gift from my wife...mostly because she wanted to read it too.
The genre of hard military sci-fi can be fun, but tends to start falling into a rut in my opinion. I love that Torrin Kerr is an uber-competant Marine without being an Honor-Harrington-level super-being. The technology is cool, and new tech mash-ups are important to solving problems, but it never becomes just a story about the technology.
This book is starting to get into the deeper di...more
The genre of hard military sci-fi can be fun, but tends to start falling into a rut in my opinion. I love that Torrin Kerr is an uber-competant Marine without being an Honor-Harrington-level super-being. The technology is cool, and new tech mash-ups are important to solving problems, but it never becomes just a story about the technology.
This book is starting to get into the deeper di...more
After the events of the first two books, Torrin is sent as part of a training operation for Marines, and it (of course) goes dreadfully wrong. The interesting part of this book was that it takes elements of the first two books and ties them into this one, revealing that maybe, just maybe, there's a third party in the long drawn-out war. Who, we don't know, and why is equally opaque so far.
Perhaps more military jargon than I'm familiar with but essentially the gist of it is that being in the space Marines a very serious business and that Kerr is a very smart lady who has the uncanny ability to keep calm under fire, an quality that allows the author to keep crafting stranger than fiction scenarios to throw at her. Also great characters with realistic interactions.
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Typical space-opera type, combat sci-fi. Nothing particularly special, but well-written with interesting characters.
I read her vampire stuff in junior high and high school, and I think this has a slightly different feel (although my memories of over ten years ago are pretty vague).
I read her vampire stuff in junior high and high school, and I think this has a slightly different feel (although my memories of over ten years ago are pretty vague).
Great book. I love that the alien species Huff created are getting some depth, as is Torin Kerr. It's also nice that the story is being expanded beyond just Torin to include Craig Ryder and others. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the installment.
I love this series. I love Torin Kerr, and how she proves over and over that "by the book" means "know what you're doing." Leadership and teamwork, resourcefulness and loyalty and honor--that's how she wins, and I love watching her do it.
Tanya Huff continues to surprise me. I am impressed with each new book, if not with the writing itself, which is strong but sometimes flounders on the "off" novel, the with the story. No one knows how to tell the same old story with a new take the way she does. In her third attempt at retelling science fiction, a large task at best, she hasn't paved any new ground but demonstrates, yet again, her ability to round out a character and make him/her real. That, perhaps, is her most strikin...more
Third in the military science fiction series featuring Torin Kerr, recently promoted to Gunnery Sergeant, who accompanies a group of Marine recruits on a training mission to a distant planet. Another fast-paced adventure.
Excellent book full of laughter and hardcore military action. Kerr is a tough, smart hero who leads her team under fire. Go read this.
torin is sent back to the training grounds, but not everything is as it seems on crucible. a mystery with a twist. still PG-13.
Even when I know how the book is going to end, this series always feels like something new. I adore this book even though I always feel slightly sad at the end of it. It's one of those books where the heroes come out triumphant but it's sad because they don't really win.
What makes this book, and the others in the series, so great is the fact that although Torin shines as the star, you get to know and care for the other characters as well. They are real people even if they don't have a...more
What makes this book, and the others in the series, so great is the fact that although Torin shines as the star, you get to know and care for the other characters as well. They are real people even if they don't have a...more
Same as first two CONFEDERATION novels: good military scifi but SLOPPY as far as typographical stuff. Yikes.
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