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glyneth's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
prested's review against another edition
4.0
Captian Alisha Marchenko served as a rebel pilot taking down a tyrannical empire. After the war, she became a civilian, stranded on a planet filled to the brink with criminals
Desperate to get off and dirt poor, Alisha decides to commandeer her mother's old spaceship and travel cargo across the galaxy.
Her plan was going off without a hitch until she discovered an imperial cyborg in the spaceship. He offers to let her have the ship if she'll take him to a spaceport.
She agrees as she takes on several other passengers with their own secrets.
As they travel across space, she can't help but wonder if the cargo she took on was more trouble than she thought.
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This is so good! I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
The plot was so good, and I love how Buroker unraveled the worldbuilding as the story went on.
I love the characterization of Alisha and Leonidas. I love how they contrasted each other.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts? It was fun, I enjoyed it so I'll be reading the next one.
Desperate to get off and dirt poor, Alisha decides to commandeer her mother's old spaceship and travel cargo across the galaxy.
Her plan was going off without a hitch until she discovered an imperial cyborg in the spaceship. He offers to let her have the ship if she'll take him to a spaceport.
She agrees as she takes on several other passengers with their own secrets.
As they travel across space, she can't help but wonder if the cargo she took on was more trouble than she thought.
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This is so good! I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
The plot was so good, and I love how Buroker unraveled the worldbuilding as the story went on.
I love the characterization of Alisha and Leonidas. I love how they contrasted each other.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts? It was fun, I enjoyed it so I'll be reading the next one.
eltorothedeep's review against another edition
4.0
Fun book with a promise of more!
Loved the world created for the story and enjoyed the characters in it too. My only problem with it was that it was slow in some parts. I did keep going back to it and liked it all the way to the end.
I want to read the sequels...
Loved the world created for the story and enjoyed the characters in it too. My only problem with it was that it was slow in some parts. I did keep going back to it and liked it all the way to the end.
I want to read the sequels...
writings_of_a_reader's review against another edition
4.0
When system-wide civil war broke out, fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko left her family and accepted a commission in the Alliance Army to battle the empire’s tyranny. Four years later, the empire has been toppled, but chaos and anarchy now rule the system. Alisa, after being injured in the final battle, is stranded on a dustball of a planet billions of miles from home. She learns that her husband died during the bombings, leaving their daughter on Perun, a planet that has become the last imperial stronghold.
Alisa must find a way to Perun, even if she has to steal a dilapidated ship from a junkyard overrun by murdering savages to do it.
This was great fun! It reminded me a lot of Firefly, and there was definitely a nod to it which made me smile. What I liked most about this book were the characters. I really liked all of them, but especially Leonidas, Alisa, and Mica. The rapport between Alisa and Mica was great right from the beginning. Mica and her pessimism was amusing.
Beck with his portable grill and BBQ was also amusing, as well as Yumi and her chickens. I came to care about every one of the characters, except for maybe Alejandro. I'm not sure about him or his motives yet. And there is a certain item that he has in his possession that had me thinking of Gollum in Lord of the Rings. I could see him petting it and saying "My precious!"
This book wasn't all humor. It had its tense moments. The beginning especially had me on the edge of my seat. There was also another part with space pirates that had me really worried about a couple of the characters. I thought it was the perfect balance of tense storytelling and humor.
This was a light, super fun read and I'm looking forward to reading more!
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
Alisa must find a way to Perun, even if she has to steal a dilapidated ship from a junkyard overrun by murdering savages to do it.
This was great fun! It reminded me a lot of Firefly, and there was definitely a nod to it which made me smile. What I liked most about this book were the characters. I really liked all of them, but especially Leonidas, Alisa, and Mica. The rapport between Alisa and Mica was great right from the beginning. Mica and her pessimism was amusing.
“Pessimism is an admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check their work three times, because they’re sure something won’t be right. Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then blow everyone up.” “I think you’re mistaking the word optimistic for inept.”
Beck with his portable grill and BBQ was also amusing, as well as Yumi and her chickens. I came to care about every one of the characters, except for maybe Alejandro. I'm not sure about him or his motives yet. And there is a certain item that he has in his possession that had me thinking of Gollum in Lord of the Rings. I could see him petting it and saying "My precious!"
This book wasn't all humor. It had its tense moments. The beginning especially had me on the edge of my seat. There was also another part with space pirates that had me really worried about a couple of the characters. I thought it was the perfect balance of tense storytelling and humor.
This was a light, super fun read and I'm looking forward to reading more!
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
sherwoodreads's review against another edition
Alisa Marchenko has finally recovered from injuries sustained in the final battle between the Empire and the Alliance who worked for fifty years to bring the empire down. She's a long way from the place her daughter is being kept--without her husband, who died in the war.
Alisa is stuck on a horrible planet with no money, and no way to get home. Having been a hotshot pilot, she goes to a junkyard where she remembers her mother's old freighter having been dumped, along with Mica, an engineer with whom Alisa had served. The two women have to fight their way past scavengers to get to the freighter--just to discover that one of the empire's elite cyborg fighters has been squatting there. They can't turf him out, so they take off, to discover that the chaos on the dirtball planet extends a lot farther than they expected.
Alisa's idea is to take passengers to the word her daughter is staying at, in order to scrape together enough funds for fuel, water, and supplies, and repair as they go, but they keep falling into adventures, the least of which is a chase through an asteroid belt.
Ever since I first read Buroker's Emperor's Edge books, with their delightful mix of fantasy and SFnal tropes, I've wondered why she wasn't writing space opera. Well, now she is, and this has everything I love about space opera: great characters, action, some intriguing mysteries, and that sense that things are not always what they seem. All stitched together with the gold of humor.
I have high hopes for this series.
Alisa is stuck on a horrible planet with no money, and no way to get home. Having been a hotshot pilot, she goes to a junkyard where she remembers her mother's old freighter having been dumped, along with Mica, an engineer with whom Alisa had served. The two women have to fight their way past scavengers to get to the freighter--just to discover that one of the empire's elite cyborg fighters has been squatting there. They can't turf him out, so they take off, to discover that the chaos on the dirtball planet extends a lot farther than they expected.
Alisa's idea is to take passengers to the word her daughter is staying at, in order to scrape together enough funds for fuel, water, and supplies, and repair as they go, but they keep falling into adventures, the least of which is a chase through an asteroid belt.
Ever since I first read Buroker's Emperor's Edge books, with their delightful mix of fantasy and SFnal tropes, I've wondered why she wasn't writing space opera. Well, now she is, and this has everything I love about space opera: great characters, action, some intriguing mysteries, and that sense that things are not always what they seem. All stitched together with the gold of humor.
I have high hopes for this series.
queen_bitterblue's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
prested's review against another edition
4.0
Captian Alisha Marchenko served as a rebel pilot taking down a tyrannical empire. After the war, she became a civilian, stranded on a planet filled to the brink with criminals
Desperate to get off and dirt poor, Alisha decides to commandeer her mother's old spaceship and travel cargo across the galaxy.
Her plan was going off without a hitch until she discovered an imperial cyborg in the spaceship. He offers to let her have the ship if she'll take him to a spaceport.
She agrees as she takes on several other passengers with their own secrets.
As they travel across space, she can't help but wonder if the cargo she took on was more trouble than she thought.
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This is so good! I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
The plot was so good, and I love how Buroker unraveled the worldbuilding as the story went on.
I love the characterization of Alisha and Leonidas. I love how they contrasted each other.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts? It was fun, I enjoyed it so I'll be reading the next one.
Desperate to get off and dirt poor, Alisha decides to commandeer her mother's old spaceship and travel cargo across the galaxy.
Her plan was going off without a hitch until she discovered an imperial cyborg in the spaceship. He offers to let her have the ship if she'll take him to a spaceport.
She agrees as she takes on several other passengers with their own secrets.
As they travel across space, she can't help but wonder if the cargo she took on was more trouble than she thought.
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This is so good! I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.
The plot was so good, and I love how Buroker unraveled the worldbuilding as the story went on.
I love the characterization of Alisha and Leonidas. I love how they contrasted each other.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts? It was fun, I enjoyed it so I'll be reading the next one.
mhockenson's review
4.0
If you're a fan of Firefly like me you'll love this book. It's got some pretty cool characters and the banter between them is fun. Looking forward to continuing this series.
eve_ward's review against another edition
3.0
This was a fun read, definitely gave major [b:The Emperor's Edge|10031259|The Emperor's Edge (The Emperor's Edge, #1)|Lindsay Buroker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327954140l/10031259._SY75_.jpg|14926833] vibes. I'm starting to notice that [a:Lindsay Buroker|4512224|Lindsay Buroker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1292869920p2/4512224.jpg] likes to use very similar characters in all her books, not that I'm complaining.
Besides that, I really did enjoy this one. It didn't charm me as I had hoped but there's definitely a lot of potential there. I'm looking forward to seeing what adventures the Star Nomad crew get up to next.
Side note: I liked all the cast asides from Alejandro, he's giving me bad vibes.
Besides that, I really did enjoy this one. It didn't charm me as I had hoped but there's definitely a lot of potential there. I'm looking forward to seeing what adventures the Star Nomad crew get up to next.
Side note: I liked all the cast asides from Alejandro, he's giving me bad vibes.
duvyna's review against another edition
4.0
I have been bad about reviews recently, my fall kind of got away from me. This was a nice light space opera that I found enjoyable. There is a lot of action and the characters were interesting and quirky. The spaceship even has a flock of chicken on board, much to the captain’s consternation. If you are in need of some funny light entertainment this is a great series to pick up.