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Talish: From Kit to Ambassador
A clever younger son. A marauding space fleet bent on annihilation of all species but their own. Can a single Tork genius make a difference?
Talish, an extremely intelligent and inventive teenage Tork is apprenticed by his Da to a high ranking Federation Officer to stop the kit’s harassment of his less talented siblings. The Officer plans to use the young royal to help educate Torquet’s smug masses to the coming threat of brutal invaders.
Talish uses the skills he developed growing up a younger son in a large noble household. He has an ability to glean the larger picture from myriad details and a talent for playing any role when dealing with others, from copying his Premier Da to acting as a defenseless diplomat.
While defending himself from xenophobic human crewmates, he succeeds at swaying Torquet leaders into sending their space fleet to meld with Federation Forces. Then, he’s tasked to approach other member star systems to get them to unite against the aggressors
Will it be enough? Will the Federation halt the assailants who evidently will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of absolute domination?
Talish, From Kit to Ambassador, is book one of Fur, Feathers, and Scales, An Alien Space Opera in Defense of the Federation. If you like intelligent and creative aliens working with humans to protect themselves from vicious intruders, then you’ll love Talish.
Download your copy today.
Talish, an extremely intelligent and inventive teenage Tork is apprenticed by his Da to a high ranking Federation Officer to stop the kit’s harassment of his less talented siblings. The Officer plans to use the young royal to help educate Torquet’s smug masses to the coming threat of brutal invaders.
Talish uses the skills he developed growing up a younger son in a large noble household. He has an ability to glean the larger picture from myriad details and a talent for playing any role when dealing with others, from copying his Premier Da to acting as a defenseless diplomat.
While defending himself from xenophobic human crewmates, he succeeds at swaying Torquet leaders into sending their space fleet to meld with Federation Forces. Then, he’s tasked to approach other member star systems to get them to unite against the aggressors
Will it be enough? Will the Federation halt the assailants who evidently will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of absolute domination?
Talish, From Kit to Ambassador, is book one of Fur, Feathers, and Scales, An Alien Space Opera in Defense of the Federation. If you like intelligent and creative aliens working with humans to protect themselves from vicious intruders, then you’ll love Talish.
Download your copy today.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 1, 2025
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September 30, 2025
Dnf at 25%
This book is an amalgamation of "and then I did that, and then that happened" plastered together. It's the worst case of "tell, don't show" I've ever seen. It includes treasures like "Da was laughing at my antics and that made me feel really good". It wouldn't be that bad if not basically every single sentence of this book was a bland description of what happened, akin to a boring report or the most lackluster diary entry of a child.
The structure is also quite bland. In one chapter, the main character is warned about one member of the crew that might harm him. In the next, he is jumped by said crew member. In the next, the crew member is demoted and send to another ship, while promising revenge. All this is written essentially as exciting as I've written here, just with a lot more words. I don't know if this guy does come back to get his revenge, but I would probably need to re-read the first passage to remember who that guy was, as nothing afterwards ever speaks of that incident.
It is also riddled with editing mistakes. Most of the book is descriptions from the main characters POV, but we also sometimes get a single sentence of his thoughts written out in direct speech, which seems odd, as we already hear his thoughts about what's happening anyway. These thoughts are sometimes written in italics, sometimes in quotation marks, which makes it hard to grasp when he's thinking and when he's talking aloud. At the beginning, there are certain alien-specific words that are written in italics, but aren't mentioned later on in the book (I haven't read it all, but I wouldn't have remembered those words if they came back at the end). There are also obvious mistakes like random sentences that seem like they stopped the chapter early or words/letters that do not fit. (For example, the letters HE instead of what would logically need to be "Her Majesty".)
It's too bad, as the world building and lore is quite interesting, dealing with a miriad of alien creatures that resemble earth animals. Their societies and biological strengths and weaknesses are well thought out, it's just unreadable in this state.
This book is an amalgamation of "and then I did that, and then that happened" plastered together. It's the worst case of "tell, don't show" I've ever seen. It includes treasures like "Da was laughing at my antics and that made me feel really good". It wouldn't be that bad if not basically every single sentence of this book was a bland description of what happened, akin to a boring report or the most lackluster diary entry of a child.
The structure is also quite bland. In one chapter, the main character is warned about one member of the crew that might harm him. In the next, he is jumped by said crew member. In the next, the crew member is demoted and send to another ship, while promising revenge. All this is written essentially as exciting as I've written here, just with a lot more words. I don't know if this guy does come back to get his revenge, but I would probably need to re-read the first passage to remember who that guy was, as nothing afterwards ever speaks of that incident.
It is also riddled with editing mistakes. Most of the book is descriptions from the main characters POV, but we also sometimes get a single sentence of his thoughts written out in direct speech, which seems odd, as we already hear his thoughts about what's happening anyway. These thoughts are sometimes written in italics, sometimes in quotation marks, which makes it hard to grasp when he's thinking and when he's talking aloud. At the beginning, there are certain alien-specific words that are written in italics, but aren't mentioned later on in the book (I haven't read it all, but I wouldn't have remembered those words if they came back at the end). There are also obvious mistakes like random sentences that seem like they stopped the chapter early or words/letters that do not fit. (For example, the letters HE instead of what would logically need to be "Her Majesty".)
It's too bad, as the world building and lore is quite interesting, dealing with a miriad of alien creatures that resemble earth animals. Their societies and biological strengths and weaknesses are well thought out, it's just unreadable in this state.
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