The Better Part of Valor

By: Tanya Huff

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Telling a two-star general what she really thought of him was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. So after she'd saved the mission to bring the Silsviss into the Confederation - instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others - she let the general know exactly how she felt.

And Torin's reward - or punishment - was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission's success than anything they encountered.

Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be or a trap created by the Others - or the work of an as yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life-forms.

©2008 Tanya Huff (P)2009 Tantor

Critic reviews

"This sequel to Valor's Choice, featuring a gutsy, fast-thinking female space-marine protagonist, establishes veteran fantasy author Huff as an accomplished spinner of high-tech military-sf adventure." (Library Journal)
"Torin is everything you want in an action heroine (or hero, for that matter), and this book will leave [audiences] anxious for her next adventure." (KLIATT)

Better than book 1, still not spectacular

I only took a chance on this one because a reviewer said it was better than the first book, which I thought was just so-so. And they were right, this book is better. It’s still not great, but it was pretty good. Entertaining. I definitely liked the main character more in this book. She’s growing on me. I might take a chance on book 3, but probably not immediately.

The narrator did a better job, too, but she needs to learn how to pronounce “loll” and “timbre”. But she made Kerr a little more human in this one.

excellent book

Great book! delivery of voice was sort of off but I still liked it for my third time though the book

great series

I really enjoyed this series, enough that even though I had read the books in print, I picked up the audible versions for a different take.

Very good

The depth of the characters is getting better in this second novel. Not too many cliches of where the plot was going.

Tanya Huff should write more!!!

I really love this series!! Great action, well developed characters and humor amid the war.