Valor's Choice

De: Tanya Huff

Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin

In the distant future, humans and several other races have been granted membership in the Confederation - at a price. They must act as soldier/protectors of the far more civilized races who have long since turned away from war.©2000 Tanya Huff (P)2008 Tantor

Pretty good military sci-Fi

Forget the cartoonish cover art. This book deserves better. Granted it has a slow start that relies on clever banter to hold your interest. But once the platoon gets into the fight, they’re off and running.

Story okay but ploting uneven

It took far to long to get the meat of the story. At first the book read like a slice of life story and all the while I kept thinking to myself when is the story going to start. And then my wandering mind soon picked up on what this was all about even before the story got started. If you take to long to get the point, someone else will get there first. And what was revealed at stories end, was what I had figured out all along.

Still, I liked the action that starts about half way in. And it was an unusual enough setting and situation to keep my interest throughout. I did not realize I lucked into reading the first book in the series. And while there was enough there to make me interested to see what happens in Book 2, Book 1 I was just okay.

Enjoyable

Rourke’s Drift in Space. Enjoyable but not remarkable. I will however continue with the series.

Strong narration saves a middling story

This is a reasonably good story with a strong narrator but also in need of some serious editing. As a writer and editor, I have generally found it easier to shut off my editing brain with an audiobook and just enjoy the story. In the case of Valor's Choice, some issues with the writing itself were distracting enough to pull me out of the story.

Overall, this is a serviceable military science fiction with a few memorable characters-made more so by the narrator-and a lot of interchangeable warm bodies. If you like a military story, you'll probably like this one. If you prefer characters with some depth and more complexities, you'll be disappointed. For a beer-and-pretzels kind of book, it's just fine.

Good military science fiction

Tanya Huff has created a universe with messy but realistic political and social dynamics. I have been a fan of this book for years and this audio version complimented it well.