Mike Shepherd
Kris Longknife is a freshly minted officer in the Navy. But her family is wealthy beyond compare (great grandpa an industrial titan), politically connected (dad is the PM of a planet), and militarily connected (two grandpa generals). The family is universally known as "those damn longknifes". Kris is put through the ringer in this first book in the series as she leads a naval drop team on a hostage rescue mission (where she is almost killed), gets assigned to a humanitarian mission on a flooded planet (where she is almost killed), and then is tasked as offensive weapons officer on her naval warship (where she is almost killed). See the pattern. I will be curious to see where this series goes. It is typically slotted in the space opera / military sci-fi genre, but it seems more like galactic political theater. Stay tuned...
3 stars (out of 4)
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