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	• Marque and Reprisal Elizabeth Moon Del Rey, 2005 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Big improvement from Trading in Danger

Second book of the Vatta Series. Ky Vatta, young captain of a trading ship, tries to find out who is trying to destroy her family.

If you plodded thru Trading in Danger, you will be pleasantly surprised by Marque and Reprisal. It is a big improvement. The overall plot was interesting and had several twists. The book feathers military strategy, combat, spies, and deception.

Moon introduces some much needed new characters. I particularly liked Stella. The dog was just dumb. As usual, Moon's sense of humor is on target in this book.

I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

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Good light reading

Picked up Trading in Danger from a bargain bin a while ago and quite enjoyed it. Saw this sequel (Marque and Reprisal) in the bookshop and picked it up for a bit of light reading. Was pleasantly surprised - far better than the first book in the series, not much by away of plot but lots of good action, well-written, all in all it delivers what it promises. Don't expect a David Weber & Honor Harrington saga, but on the other hand I did have a hard time putting it down.

Parody

A space opera that reads like a written cartoon. Overgifted good guys, undergifted villains. Clever good guys, stupid bad guys. Overequipped good guys' ships, underequipped villains' ships. And, eventually, surviving heroes and dead rascals. When in need of some miracle, just make a good guy (in disguise) appear to take the snag away. Everything transparent and predictible. Don't look for more.

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Still plodding along

This book continues on the not-great not-terrible coat tails of Trading in Danger. It's just good enough to keep me engaged, though I read it over the span of about three months as the book I keep in my bag for slow moments.

One of the things that's got me worried are the Mary Sues on the horizon in the form of Rafe and Toby. Toby is giving off that ever so foul Wesley Crusher odor with a dash of Boxy with his daggit. Oh, and the dog, whatever its name is, not cute.

I could have gone for a lot less of Ky's "I'm a KILLER--Rawr!" introspection. Yeah, we get it that she's a displaced marine-type and that she'd rather be out there kicking butt and letting the bodies drop where they fall, but there's no need to repeat it in nearly every chapter.

I'll continue reading this series mainly because it's not totally unbearable, and there's a lot of that on the market these days.

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Elizabeth Moon - Marque and Reprisal

The book was delivered on time and came in good condition. I enjoyed reading the first two books of this Series. Elizabeth Moon has developed a strong female lead for the main character. The story in engaging and entertaining.

Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in business?the kind that?s anything but usual?in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.

The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground?but Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family?s fleet . . . and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky?s father?s interstellar shipping empire. In short order, most of Ky?s family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.

Determined to identify the ruthless mystery enemy and avenge her family?s name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she gets both in spades?from the band of stranded mercenaries she hooks up with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, who?s been leading a secret life, and from Stella?s roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they struggle to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue that?s wreaking havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective operation their own livelihoods?and perhaps lives?depend on.

But the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isn?t long before Ky?s hired military muscle are turning their suspicions on the enigmatic Rafe, whose wealth of knowledge about ISC?s clashing factions and startling new technologies has begun to make him smell like a rat . . . or a mole. With swift, violent destruction a very real possibility, the last thing Ky needs is a crew divided against itself?and she?s prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that Vatta stays in business, as well as in one piece.

What she?s not prepared for is the shocking truth behind the terror? and a confrontation with murderous treachery from a source as unexpected as it is unrelenting.

From the Hardcover edition.

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