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Kris Longknife #16
Admiral
Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good. Really, she knew by now that what was too good to be true really, really isn't. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife.
Now Kris is sweating out collecting a fighting force -- that won't make her their first target. Now she's trying to figure out how to fight ships identical to hers, that outnumber her four to one or worse. Oh, and she's got to keep the merchant princes in her embassy from making a mess of everything.
A whole lot of people are hoping this Longknife can pull a grizzly bear out of her hat. A whole lot of other Iteeche are hoping the bear takes off her arm.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife.
Now Kris is sweating out collecting a fighting force -- that won't make her their first target. Now she's trying to figure out how to fight ships identical to hers, that outnumber her four to one or worse. Oh, and she's got to keep the merchant princes in her embassy from making a mess of everything.
A whole lot of people are hoping this Longknife can pull a grizzly bear out of her hat. A whole lot of other Iteeche are hoping the bear takes off her arm.
464 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2017
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About the author
Mike Shepherd
78 books563 followersA pseudonym used by Mike Moscoe.
Mike was born in the Philadelphia Navy Yard Hospital -- and left that town at the age of three days for reasons he does not presently recall. But they had to draft him to get him back there. He missed very little of the rest of the country. Growing up Navy, he lived about everywhere you could park an aircraft carrier.
Mike was one of those college students who didn't have to worry about finding a job after graduation. In 1968, his Uncle Sam made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Two days into boot camp, the Army was wondering if they might not have been a bit hasty. Mike ended the day in the Intensive Care Unit of the local Army hospital. Despite most of Mike’s personal war stories being limited to "How I flunked boot camp," he can still write a rollicking good military SF yarns.
Mike didn’t survive all that long as a cab driver (he got lost) or bartender (he made the drinks too strong) but he figured he could at least work for the Navy Department as a budget analyst. Until he spent the whole day trying to balance the barracks accounts for paint. Finally, about quitting time, a grinning senior analyst took him aside and let him in on the secret. They'd hidden the money for refitting a battleship in that little account. Slowly it dawned on Mike that there were a few things about the Navy that even a kid who grew up in it would never understand.
Over the next twenty years, Mike branched out into other genres, including instruction memos, policies, performance standards and even a few labor contracts. All of those, you may notice, lack a certain something. Dialogue ... those things in quotes. In `87, Mike’s big break came. He landed on a two year special project to build a digital map showing where the trees, rivers, roads, Spotted Owls and other critters were in western Oregon. The list went on and on with no end in sight and two years became ten.
Since there was no writing involved in his new day job, Mike had to do something to get the words out. He signed up for a writing class at Clark Community College and proudly turned in a story ... Star Wars shoots down the second coming of Christ.
Two years later, Analog bought "Summer Hopes, Winter Dreams" for the March, 1991 issue. Four years later he sold his first novel. In the ten years since then, Mike’s turned in twelve novels and is researching the next three.
Mike's love for Science Fiction started when he picked up "Rocket Ship Galileo" in the fifth grade, and then proceeded to read every book in the library with a rocket sticker on its spine.
Mike digs for his stories among people and change. Through his interest in history, he has traces the transformations that make us what we are today. Science launches us forward into an ever changing universe. Once upon a time, the only changes in peoples lives came with the turning of the seasons and the growing wrinkles on their brows. Today, science drives most of the changes in our daily lives. Still, we can't avoid the pressure of our own awakening hormones or hardening arteries. Mike is happiest when his stories are speeding across thin ice, balanced on the edge of two sharp blades, one anciently human, the other as new as tomorrow's research.
Trained in International Relations and history, salary administration and bargaining, theology and counseling, Mike is having a ball writing about Kris Longknife ... coming of age while the world her grand parents built threatens to crash down around her ears. These are books I think you’ll love ... and my granddaughter and grandsons too!
Mike lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife Ellen, his mother-in-law and any visiting grandkids. He enjoys reading, writing, watching grand-children for story ideas and upgrading his computer -- all are never ending.
Mike was born in the Philadelphia Navy Yard Hospital -- and left that town at the age of three days for reasons he does not presently recall. But they had to draft him to get him back there. He missed very little of the rest of the country. Growing up Navy, he lived about everywhere you could park an aircraft carrier.
Mike was one of those college students who didn't have to worry about finding a job after graduation. In 1968, his Uncle Sam made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Two days into boot camp, the Army was wondering if they might not have been a bit hasty. Mike ended the day in the Intensive Care Unit of the local Army hospital. Despite most of Mike’s personal war stories being limited to "How I flunked boot camp," he can still write a rollicking good military SF yarns.
Mike didn’t survive all that long as a cab driver (he got lost) or bartender (he made the drinks too strong) but he figured he could at least work for the Navy Department as a budget analyst. Until he spent the whole day trying to balance the barracks accounts for paint. Finally, about quitting time, a grinning senior analyst took him aside and let him in on the secret. They'd hidden the money for refitting a battleship in that little account. Slowly it dawned on Mike that there were a few things about the Navy that even a kid who grew up in it would never understand.
Over the next twenty years, Mike branched out into other genres, including instruction memos, policies, performance standards and even a few labor contracts. All of those, you may notice, lack a certain something. Dialogue ... those things in quotes. In `87, Mike’s big break came. He landed on a two year special project to build a digital map showing where the trees, rivers, roads, Spotted Owls and other critters were in western Oregon. The list went on and on with no end in sight and two years became ten.
Since there was no writing involved in his new day job, Mike had to do something to get the words out. He signed up for a writing class at Clark Community College and proudly turned in a story ... Star Wars shoots down the second coming of Christ.
Two years later, Analog bought "Summer Hopes, Winter Dreams" for the March, 1991 issue. Four years later he sold his first novel. In the ten years since then, Mike’s turned in twelve novels and is researching the next three.
Mike's love for Science Fiction started when he picked up "Rocket Ship Galileo" in the fifth grade, and then proceeded to read every book in the library with a rocket sticker on its spine.
Mike digs for his stories among people and change. Through his interest in history, he has traces the transformations that make us what we are today. Science launches us forward into an ever changing universe. Once upon a time, the only changes in peoples lives came with the turning of the seasons and the growing wrinkles on their brows. Today, science drives most of the changes in our daily lives. Still, we can't avoid the pressure of our own awakening hormones or hardening arteries. Mike is happiest when his stories are speeding across thin ice, balanced on the edge of two sharp blades, one anciently human, the other as new as tomorrow's research.
Trained in International Relations and history, salary administration and bargaining, theology and counseling, Mike is having a ball writing about Kris Longknife ... coming of age while the world her grand parents built threatens to crash down around her ears. These are books I think you’ll love ... and my granddaughter and grandsons too!
Mike lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife Ellen, his mother-in-law and any visiting grandkids. He enjoys reading, writing, watching grand-children for story ideas and upgrading his computer -- all are never ending.
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March 7, 2018
In the last book of this series, Kris was appointed the Ambassador to the Iteeche Empire. In this book we find out there is a civil war going on and the Emperor is losing; so he asked Kris to help by taking command of his Navy.
The book is well written. It is great to be back with old friends again. Of course, my favorite is Nellie. The book has humor, suspense and lots of action. The book ends with a big space battle. I have enjoyed this series about Kris Longknife. It is a fun space opera. Shepherd has created some interesting characters and has built on them over the series. This makes a great get-away-from-it-all book. I noted the complaints about the lack of editing and proofreading of the book in various reviews. One of the great things about audiobooks is the listener does not have to deal with the lack of editing and proofreading.
I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is eleven and a half hours. Dina Pearlman does a great job narrating the series. She is an actress and audiobook narrator.
The book is well written. It is great to be back with old friends again. Of course, my favorite is Nellie. The book has humor, suspense and lots of action. The book ends with a big space battle. I have enjoyed this series about Kris Longknife. It is a fun space opera. Shepherd has created some interesting characters and has built on them over the series. This makes a great get-away-from-it-all book. I noted the complaints about the lack of editing and proofreading of the book in various reviews. One of the great things about audiobooks is the listener does not have to deal with the lack of editing and proofreading.
I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is eleven and a half hours. Dina Pearlman does a great job narrating the series. She is an actress and audiobook narrator.
November 20, 2017
How many times do we have to say it? HIRE A FRICKIN PROOFREADER!
This one is worse even than the last few!
And then the biggest of all space battles to prove once and for all that bigger is not better. Or more exciting. Or very interesting. Or even just interesting. To paraphrase Marvin: The first ten million laser blasts, they were the worst. The next ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that, it went into a bit of a decline.
This one is worse even than the last few!
And then the biggest of all space battles to prove once and for all that bigger is not better. Or more exciting. Or very interesting. Or even just interesting. To paraphrase Marvin: The first ten million laser blasts, they were the worst. The next ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that, it went into a bit of a decline.
November 3, 2017
Good, but dirty
A lot happens and stuff gets kinetic. Great battles and crafty maneuvering. Some classic Longknife moves.
But...
There are a lot of errors. I get peeved at paying a premium price and getting substandard product. Proofreading is a requirement, not an option, when you charge $8 a copy. If you charge traditional publisher prices, you have to provide traditional publisher quality.
A lot happens and stuff gets kinetic. Great battles and crafty maneuvering. Some classic Longknife moves.
But...
There are a lot of errors. I get peeved at paying a premium price and getting substandard product. Proofreading is a requirement, not an option, when you charge $8 a copy. If you charge traditional publisher prices, you have to provide traditional publisher quality.
November 14, 2017
A copy editor... A copy editor... My kingdom for a copy editor!
March 6, 2018
The book starts with an interesting confrontation between Kris and what should have been her allies. Then mid chapter the book suddenly goes back in time before the action started. I hate this, there didn’t seem any point in writing this out of order.
The next couple of hundred pages were fairly interesting, but contained a lot of trivia and took a long time to get anywhere e.g. I really wasn’t sure about the metaphoric descriptions of Iteeche computers and in the end it didn’t seem to lead anywhere.
The end of the book was the obligatory big battle. I really don’t like ‘Slug fests’ where it’s all about counting up the number of casualties. The author tries to make it appear that there is lots of clever manoeuvring, but really it’s all about the number of ships destroyed.
The book finishes with the end of the battle, but leaves lots of loose ends, which I assume will be taken up in the next book.
A couple of my slight irritations with the battle;
The next couple of hundred pages were fairly interesting, but contained a lot of trivia and took a long time to get anywhere e.g. I really wasn’t sure about the metaphoric descriptions of Iteeche computers and in the end it didn’t seem to lead anywhere.
The end of the book was the obligatory big battle. I really don’t like ‘Slug fests’ where it’s all about counting up the number of casualties. The author tries to make it appear that there is lots of clever manoeuvring, but really it’s all about the number of ships destroyed.
The book finishes with the end of the battle, but leaves lots of loose ends, which I assume will be taken up in the next book.
A couple of my slight irritations with the battle;
February 18, 2018
It was a good start, I enjoyed the start where Kris had to balance the Iteeche and Human interests and try and find some sort of common ground. However there were some things that were off putting, my biggest off put was the weird "hacking" and the outcomes of it. But I am biased to how Shadowrun normally portrays cyberspace. Also the ending of the book was a huge flop with me, it was a huge space battle but i had no idea what was going on, who was doing what, and what the objective was. I think the rebel fleet was trying to draw Kris off to attack the palace? It fell flat and confusing and could really use a tightening up job.
November 10, 2017
Happy to welcome old friends reading this latest instalment. I was totally riveted until the last quarter of the book in which a very poorly written big battle ensues. The author really dialled this one in, there so many typos, there's even a few paragraphs that were copy pasted hear word for word and left in multiple chapters. I'd say that's how the entire final battle was written, copy a paragraph, change three words, paste. Repeat.
Maybe less of the spin offs and more attention to writing novels, because this will be the last one I read if I font see massive improvements.
Maybe less of the spin offs and more attention to writing novels, because this will be the last one I read if I font see massive improvements.
November 1, 2017
Brillent addition to the series
Carry ed on from the time jump and fleshed out the itches more I wonder when Kris will relise that Nelly has created a new life
Carry ed on from the time jump and fleshed out the itches more I wonder when Kris will relise that Nelly has created a new life
March 7, 2018
As far as I am concerned this book was perhaps not perfect but it was definitely one of the better ones in the Kris Longknife series. It is a direct continuation of the previous book, Emissary, which means that Kris has discovered that she is thrown into the deep end together with the sharks and being an Emissary does not even begin to cover it. This is really where the fun begins in this story arc.
There are a lot of things that I like about this book. The plentiful space combats taking place is of course one of them. Kris being her usual kick-ass self another one. Maybe the thing that gave me the most pleasure though is when Kris is trying to teach the Iteeche that their combat tactics are, essentially, crap and really rubbing their noses in it in order to get the message true. For some, due to reasons I will not divulge to avoid spoilers, the message is delivered by means of high energy pulses of coherent light.
Most of the book is about Kris trying to teach the part of the Iteeche fleet loyal to the Emperor how to fight the rest of the Iteeche fleet while thwarting the numerous assassination attempts by the latter faction. This is indeed a quite action filled book. While not fighting Iteeche rebells she has to deal with the usual armada of dumb-asses, bureaucrats and such like which she does with the same kick-ass attitude as when fulfilling her military objectives. I really like it when worthless pencil pushers gets a lesson or two.
A fairly large part of the book is devoted to Kris’ teams efforts to get access to the Iteeche information network and I have to say that I did not really like these parts very much. These efforts where spearheaded by Megan who has some strange capability which allows her to cast her mind into a computer. It was way to unbelievable, bizarre and psychedelic for my taste.
It should not be very surprising that the book builds up to a big, and I mean big, showdown between the loyals, with Kris in command, and the rebels. Unfortunately I do have a bit of a gripe with this battle “finale”. It is very long, which is not a problem in itself, but it is too much of the same. There is little variation, it is pretty much just a drawn out slug-feast.
Regardless of that, as I wrote in the beginning this is, in my opinion, one of the better books in the series and I hope that Kris’ adventures continues in future books.
There are a lot of things that I like about this book. The plentiful space combats taking place is of course one of them. Kris being her usual kick-ass self another one. Maybe the thing that gave me the most pleasure though is when Kris is trying to teach the Iteeche that their combat tactics are, essentially, crap and really rubbing their noses in it in order to get the message true. For some, due to reasons I will not divulge to avoid spoilers, the message is delivered by means of high energy pulses of coherent light.
Most of the book is about Kris trying to teach the part of the Iteeche fleet loyal to the Emperor how to fight the rest of the Iteeche fleet while thwarting the numerous assassination attempts by the latter faction. This is indeed a quite action filled book. While not fighting Iteeche rebells she has to deal with the usual armada of dumb-asses, bureaucrats and such like which she does with the same kick-ass attitude as when fulfilling her military objectives. I really like it when worthless pencil pushers gets a lesson or two.
A fairly large part of the book is devoted to Kris’ teams efforts to get access to the Iteeche information network and I have to say that I did not really like these parts very much. These efforts where spearheaded by Megan who has some strange capability which allows her to cast her mind into a computer. It was way to unbelievable, bizarre and psychedelic for my taste.
It should not be very surprising that the book builds up to a big, and I mean big, showdown between the loyals, with Kris in command, and the rebels. Unfortunately I do have a bit of a gripe with this battle “finale”. It is very long, which is not a problem in itself, but it is too much of the same. There is little variation, it is pretty much just a drawn out slug-feast.
Regardless of that, as I wrote in the beginning this is, in my opinion, one of the better books in the series and I hope that Kris’ adventures continues in future books.
December 2, 2018
Read it and I have a youtube video in the pipeline for review on this book. I was that pumped.
< youtube video going here when completed click through >
This is the best in the series so far.
Mistress OP
small items that aren't going to be in the youtube review
mostly the grips
1. The kids feel more like puppies than children. I'd love a little more personality out of them.
2. Jack is turning into a stud horse instead of a character. Altho I love the fact he's sexing her up when she needs it. Id like a slightly longer book where she's doing her thing and he's doing his thing. (IE maybe have the iteech get on board the ship and attack and marines and finally be shipboard marines and jack gets something to do together with Megan, Kris, and possibly (Abby/bruce/kara)? maybe even karas first kill I dunno.
3. Id love sees some more kara, Abby, Bruce. --- maybe some of the new people and the kids
4. id like Jack to train the iteech women to be marines. they seem to be able to fight anyways.
5. I'd like to see some things with the army
6.
7. bring back brock from Eden maybe navy or marine. put him in as jacks staff. Jack needs a number three man I don't think Bruce is enough.
8. Don't make Jack into Kris' handbag he's become more than just her bodyguard. He's really good and has to become her partner a bit more. (also i have no problem with Jack Longknife being used from time to time cos it sounds cute)
_____________________ While waiting for book finally out
I could have sworn this said out in July?? did it get pushed back?
update!! I've been so pumped cos I have a feeling it's going to be one of those books where it comes the fuck together. I love when she's in Admiral Mode also I am pumped about the babies and all the kids. I LOVE THE fact kara is back!!! and HEr Aunt who is wonderful. The gangs almost all back together SO DAMN PUMPED! .. WRECK LONGKNIFE! WRECK!
Friday 11:39 PM waiting for the preorder!!!!!! RIGHT NOW
it's only oct. id kill for an arc
< youtube video going here when completed click through >
This is the best in the series so far.
Mistress OP
small items that aren't going to be in the youtube review
mostly the grips
1. The kids feel more like puppies than children. I'd love a little more personality out of them.
2. Jack is turning into a stud horse instead of a character. Altho I love the fact he's sexing her up when she needs it. Id like a slightly longer book where she's doing her thing and he's doing his thing. (IE maybe have the iteech get on board the ship and attack and marines and finally be shipboard marines and jack gets something to do together with Megan, Kris, and possibly (Abby/bruce/kara)? maybe even karas first kill I dunno.
3. Id love sees some more kara, Abby, Bruce. --- maybe some of the new people and the kids
4. id like Jack to train the iteech women to be marines. they seem to be able to fight anyways.
5. I'd like to see some things with the army
6.
7. bring back brock from Eden maybe navy or marine. put him in as jacks staff. Jack needs a number three man I don't think Bruce is enough.
8. Don't make Jack into Kris' handbag he's become more than just her bodyguard. He's really good and has to become her partner a bit more. (also i have no problem with Jack Longknife being used from time to time cos it sounds cute)
_____________________ While waiting for book finally out
I could have sworn this said out in July?? did it get pushed back?
update!! I've been so pumped cos I have a feeling it's going to be one of those books where it comes the fuck together. I love when she's in Admiral Mode also I am pumped about the babies and all the kids. I LOVE THE fact kara is back!!! and HEr Aunt who is wonderful. The gangs almost all back together SO DAMN PUMPED! .. WRECK LONGKNIFE! WRECK!
Friday 11:39 PM waiting for the preorder!!!!!! RIGHT NOW
it's only oct. id kill for an arc
November 8, 2017
Another great Longknife story
I thought it a bit slow at the beginning and then the battle at the end was too long but over all still a great addition to the Longknife story.
I thought it a bit slow at the beginning and then the battle at the end was too long but over all still a great addition to the Longknife story.
July 26, 2020
3 and 1/2* the battle was long but not epic, attrition war never is. The numbers were to big for me, but still a good battle and book.
January 2, 2024
Admiral Kris Longknife was sent to the seat of the Iteeche Empire as an emissary from humanity but finds herself dragooned into becoming the Admiral of the loyal fleet who must fight against rebel forces to keep the teenaged Emperor on his throne.
She has 36 battlecruisers, the enemy has thousands. She needs to build a force using Iteeche forces and forge them into a fighting force that can win against three-to-one odds. However, all the rebels aren't away from the seat of power, and she has to face attempts against her life and her people right under the Emperor's nose.
Just as she's getting her troops trained to fight in the human way, news comes in that one of her strongest supporters among the Iteeche needs immediate help. His planetary seat is being taken over by the rebels. It would normally take a month to get there, but Kris can use the fuzzy jumps that humans have discovered which will cut the time drastically. So, the combined fleet is gathered and dispatched only to find that the revolt on that planet was a feint to clear her and her forces away from the Imperial seat.
There are no direct fuzzy jumps into the Emperor's planet and when Kris and crew wind up one jump short, they discover a rebel force that outnumbers them five-to-one that they have to keep from making the jump and capturing the Emperor's planet.
The story is filled with space battles and strategies and constant reminders that the Iteeche are aliens and don't think at all the same way that humans do.
It was an exciting story that carries on nicely from Emissary and leads neatly into Commander because it will take more than one battle, no matter how horrendous, to put down the rebellion.
She has 36 battlecruisers, the enemy has thousands. She needs to build a force using Iteeche forces and forge them into a fighting force that can win against three-to-one odds. However, all the rebels aren't away from the seat of power, and she has to face attempts against her life and her people right under the Emperor's nose.
Just as she's getting her troops trained to fight in the human way, news comes in that one of her strongest supporters among the Iteeche needs immediate help. His planetary seat is being taken over by the rebels. It would normally take a month to get there, but Kris can use the fuzzy jumps that humans have discovered which will cut the time drastically. So, the combined fleet is gathered and dispatched only to find that the revolt on that planet was a feint to clear her and her forces away from the Imperial seat.
There are no direct fuzzy jumps into the Emperor's planet and when Kris and crew wind up one jump short, they discover a rebel force that outnumbers them five-to-one that they have to keep from making the jump and capturing the Emperor's planet.
The story is filled with space battles and strategies and constant reminders that the Iteeche are aliens and don't think at all the same way that humans do.
It was an exciting story that carries on nicely from Emissary and leads neatly into Commander because it will take more than one battle, no matter how horrendous, to put down the rebellion.
September 21, 2019
Princess and Grand Admiral Kris Longknife has been summoned to the Imperial Iteeche Court to lead the Emperor’s forces against a rebellion. Pitted against a force that greatly outnumbers her own and with equal firepower, she must train and equip the Iteeche loyalists so they can survive the coming battle. With her family along for the mission, she dare not fail. Once again, we enter Kris’s world and get immersed in her universe. Lots of battle scenes with paragraphs of logistics that I ended up skimming. I read a story for the people, and while the space battles are part of a scifi saga, they make my eyes glaze over if they go on too long. I’m not sure how this story advanced Kris’s character but I still enjoy being in her world.
April 1, 2018
Grand Admiral Kris Longknife is desperately needed by the Iteeche Emperor. He needs the "fightingest admiral he can get" to win a type of warfare she's never experienced: symmetrical warfare. She is more than an excellent naval officer, she is a diplomat and merchant wrangler, an astute politician, a loving wife and mother, and more.
There's some ground fighting and plenty of space fighting, the likes of which Kris has never fought before. If anyone can handle a steep learning curve, it's her. But she is also leading Iteeche loyalists...
I had fun!
There's some ground fighting and plenty of space fighting, the likes of which Kris has never fought before. If anyone can handle a steep learning curve, it's her. But she is also leading Iteeche loyalists...
I had fun!
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June 19, 2021This is good. Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good. Really, she knew by now that what was too good to be true really, really isn't. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife.
November 28, 2017
A new start in a new career but it doesn't come easy. To be taken seriously in an alien Empire Kris must first prove her metal in battle. Too bad she's out numbered and out gunned but that's not all that unusual for our hero. What I like best about this book is how we are getting to see an alien culture which feels both familiar and different at the same time. I look forward to more.
December 16, 2017
The Calvary
Kris is with the itchees and trying to establish a working alliance in front of the big ugly. Needless to say Kris runs afoul of the Itchee political system. She trysts to figure it out, but it is really up to Nelly. Looking forward to the next installment.
Kris is with the itchees and trying to establish a working alliance in front of the big ugly. Needless to say Kris runs afoul of the Itchee political system. She trysts to figure it out, but it is really up to Nelly. Looking forward to the next installment.
September 18, 2023
Another good story in the continuing sage of Kris Longknife. It is a good tale worthy of a read. When will Mike Shepherd conclude this series? Not for a while I think. There are some sexual innuendoes. And, I will be ready for number 17 soon.
December 30, 2017
Solid Read - I've noticed more typos in his writing since the shift from Ace to Mike Shepard's personal press, this seems to be improving, so hopefully it will continue to improve.
November 10, 2017
Enjoyable
Takes a while to get there but once the fighting starts it doesn't stop until the end. A somewhat abrupt ending.
Takes a while to get there but once the fighting starts it doesn't stop until the end. A somewhat abrupt ending.
November 20, 2017
The Farther Mike gets into this series the better it gets!!
February 8, 2018
Stuck in this series
May 1, 2019
Wow. A Universal battle Royal. But as usual, Kris saves the day.
July 3, 2019
Excellent as usual.
A little too much battle scenes for my taste, and too little Kris's cleverness.
But still excellent.
A little too much battle scenes for my taste, and too little Kris's cleverness.
But still excellent.
February 24, 2020
Good book, another interesting read in the Kris Longknife series.
March 31, 2021
Pretty good. About what you would expect, including the usual twists and turns.
July 23, 2021
Sometimes you need a big old space battle book.
This is a great one of those, rollicking!
This is a great one of those, rollicking!
August 27, 2024
The plot holes are by now so many that its just silly. That the author seems incapable of not adding one or more each book just boggles the mind.
March 5, 2023
3.5 stars.
Mar 2023 - re-listened. I did think the battle went on for too long.
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May 2021
This instalment had the "epic-est" battle yet. For me, it probably went on for a bit too long. But the mind did boggle at the sheer size of the two opposing fleets.
One thing I can't quite understand is what happened to Grandpa Trouble and Grandma Rita? Weren't they supposed to be minding the kids? I don't think I remember hearing any mention of them.
Mar 2023 - re-listened. I did think the battle went on for too long.
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May 2021
This instalment had the "epic-est" battle yet. For me, it probably went on for a bit too long. But the mind did boggle at the sheer size of the two opposing fleets.
One thing I can't quite understand is what happened to Grandpa Trouble and Grandma Rita? Weren't they supposed to be minding the kids? I don't think I remember hearing any mention of them.
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