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myworldinwordsandpages
myworldinwordsandpages rated it 10 years ago
Ish has been on the William Tinker about thirteen years now. Things are going well in the deep dark space as he sits as First Mate to his Captain Freddie. Until there is an abandoned ship found floating through space. What they find there is one thing that will never leave Ish's mind and a stark rem...
myworldinwordsandpages
myworldinwordsandpages rated it 11 years ago
Ishmael has graduated from the Academy and is taking his first job as 3rd Mate at the Diernia Salvation & Transport company. Upon the ship the William Tinker where the 1st Mate and crew seem to be laxed on formality and cruel to each other, even degrading to woman and others. Maybe the sneakiness ...
myworldinwordsandpages
myworldinwordsandpages rated it 11 years ago
The beginning makes you nervous with Ish, for what might be the reason the Captain wants to see him. Then when he walks into the meeting to see all the senior staff there! You are pulled in wondering what has gone wrong. We start right where Quarter Share ended. It seems the series will follow ...
Betsy's Non-Blog
Betsy's Non-Blog rated it 11 years ago
Good, but not quite as good as the first two books in the series. The story seemed rather predictable. And I felt there was at least one thread left unresolved. A gentle fantasy with a delightful no-nonsense heroine.
myworldinwordsandpages
myworldinwordsandpages rated it 11 years ago
Eighteen year old Ishmael Horatio Wang was to start University, where his mother taught, on Neris. Then like the breeze, his life drasticly changes with a series of bad news, starting with his mother's death in a flitter accident. In order to stay on Neris, a company planet, he has to find work. The...
Betsy's Non-Blog
Betsy's Non-Blog rated it 12 years ago
This is the second in the Tanyth Fairport series, a charming fantasy about a middle aged herb woman who is traveling the world in search of additional knowledge about her craft and who seems to be developing strange abilities as she enters menopause. This second installment is not quite as exciting...
Betsy's Non-Blog
Betsy's Non-Blog rated it 13 years ago
Enjoyable light fantasy. Lowell always writes well -- clear, straightforward, enough detail and background to support the story but not overwhelm it. He does a good job of writing about a middle aged woman dealing with the beginning of menopause and the development of some unexpected abilities whi...
myworldinwordsandpages
myworldinwordsandpages rated it 14 years ago
Agent Books and Agent Braun pick us a case with some dust on top, African dust, and a case well before either of their time with The Ministry. And the Amulet is no where in the case file as well...Agent Heathcliff Durham is sent to meet with Agent Randell Morrison in Africa to look for a man who th...
JeffreyParis
JeffreyParis rated it 15 years ago
All five of these books (start with Quarter Share) kept me entranced, even if there was a slight decline in the strength of secondary characters once Ishmael shifted off the Lois McKendrick. There was something simple, but calming and lovable, about these books that made me want them to go on and o...
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