Trading in Danger

Vatta's War, Book 1

By: Elizabeth Moon

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

The first of the acclaimed Vatta's War books, the exciting military science fiction series that features a swashbuckling spaceship-captain heroine who mixes commerce with combat.

©2004 Elizabeth Moon (P)2008 Tantor

Solid story

Any additional comments?

The narrator did a nice job with pacing and characterization. However I got thrown out of the story numerous times because she didn't know how to pronounce a number of words: starboard and throughput, among many others. This happened at least once in every chapter, and we're not talking about truly obscure words.

galactic inner space travel and fruit cakes

This is down to earth daily life on a galactic scale interspersed with high adventure. It reminds me of Sophie, Captain Aubrey and Dr. Matterin in all 20 of Patrick O'Brien's books. Okay Elizabeth Moon, how fast can you rite these? I'm hooked.

Awesome Find

I got this because it was on sale, it is wonderful! I was so surprised because it is always hard for me to try new authors. Now I have another one I have to keep up with. Gladly.
I liked the way the auther can put me on the ship as well as keep up with all of the techno info. The reader is one of my favorites as well. I find myself talking back to my device as if I am in conversation with the characters. lol Cant wait for the next one.

Reflecting todays climate, punn intended

A twisted plot as you never know the whole truth. Which as humans we feel we know the real truth but do we. I found this a little political but didn't mind as there are as many points to real life as there are to fiction. Read the book as it is entertaining with lots of adventure and intrigue, CC

Better to read than to listen.

This story is an interesting story purely from a developed fictional construct. The world and characters are well developed and very detailed, however, the writing in this story is somewhat dismal especially when read out loud. The most common example is "she said" and "he said" constantly with little variation. The author does not use tact to direct the reader an is instead blunt. This bluntness does not work with spoken word and so becomes annoying.
The narrator is decent enough, but suffers from lack of voice diversity. this is not too much of a problem except when dealing with deep voices which can sometimes sound broken.

Great yarn!

There's nothing like a well-written little space opera to make my day. I loved listening to this one almost as much as I did reading it!

Moon's writing is great, Narrator is not so hot

The author, Elizabeth Moon, has written another excellent series here, but the narrator leaves plenty to be desired.

After the first few hours, she figures out the rhythm well enough that listening is fine, but she consistently mispronounces certain words... and after awhile, each time she says those words I want to cringe.

Give it a listen anyway, because it's a great read -- but Moon needs to find better narration for her other works!

Great series!

Great book, great series! One of those that you want to rush to the end just to get to the next book.

Surprisingly Strong Launch!

I won't lie. I got this as part of an Audible sale... and I am awefully glad that I did. The Story gets off on the right foot and hits the ground running; with the hard-luck case main character being affable and endearing.

Elizabeth Moon loves Murphy's law. The Main character doesn't. Moon paint's an "Eve" (video game MMO) like galaxy with a lush cultural and economic backdrop. The story never becomes tedious or boring. I loved it and have recommended it to several people, and now I put fingers to keys and recommend this to you. A great intro to Science Fiction if you're new to the genre.

Narrator Cynthia was a strong, sympathetic, and persistant voice that was ideal for the lead character and her tribulations. Well chosen and performed.

Overall great but some fumbled words

Great story, decent performance but some words the narrator didn't know and really blew it. Distracting.