by David Weber
...remember I was reading this for a book club. I should have been discussing frequently here on the dashboard. I should be writing a good review. Instead, I wolfed through this one, then book two and then immediately book three. I did want more in the Honor-verse. I hesitated to start this b...
This is Young Adult Sci Fi set on a frontier planet in the far future with a girl-meets-treecat first contact theme.The split view from human to alien and back was well handled, the action scenes are dramatic and pack an emotional punch and the whole thing is carried along by the excellent performan...
Twelve-year-old Stephanie isn't happy that her family has been relocated to the planet Sphinx. It's a dangerous and fairly recently colonized place, so her parents don't feel comfortable about letting her run around on her own all the time. In order to keep her occupied, Stephanie's mother gives her...
Sometimes I feel like some books just DO NOT work as audio books. This is one of them. Everything that might have been mildly annoying in a print/read-with-your-eyes version just got 10000000 times worse when you have to read-with-your-ears. For instance: * The time jumps - so you've captured the b...
This was good, but wasn't really a new book. It was mostly an expanded collection of previous published short stories. I'm interested to see what the sequel looks like since it's new work intended to be a full length novel.
Honestly it really is beautiful, it is no lie. Read this book, seriously. One of the best Young Adult I have ever read. David Weber did a great job on the deput book in the Star Kingdom Series. For once I wasn't totally disgausted by a YA terrible writing. Now Weber doesnt normally write in this gen...
A great starter science fiction book for kids 12+.Full of tropes, but handled very well. The first section of the book is an expanded version of a short story detailing first contact between the treecats and humans on the planet Sphinx. The second closely follows with worries about how to keep the t...
A great starter science fiction book for kids 12+.Full of tropes, but handled very well. The first section of the book is an expanded version of a short story detailing first contact between the treecats and humans on the planet Sphinx. The second closely follows with worries about how to keep the t...
This was a great science fiction story that should appeal to both boys and girls. Stephanie Harrington comes to the planet Sphinx with her parents. She is twelve. She is disappointed to leave her home planet of Meyerdahl but is eager to explore her new home. However, her parents aren't so eager for ...
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