Cold Welcome - Kirjakasa

449 pages

English language

Published Feb. 16, 2017 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-356-50629-6

(1 review)

Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence.

Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero’s welcome. But instead she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance.

Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet—a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets …

Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence.

Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero’s welcome. But instead she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance.

Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet—a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group’s survival but her entire home planet.

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Review of 'Cold Welcome' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

These books are seriously not for me. Yes, they are competently written, the plots are interesting, the protagonists good enough BUT I honestly cannot stand the malicious incompetence of everyone else in the world. Particularly the ending of this one felt needlessly cruel in the vein of "nah nah, you cannot get what you want because everyone else is a stupid asshole". Also, all the detail is somehow ... in the wrong place? We get detailed competence porn of clever people doing clever things with zero tension, but we absolutely gloss over things I'd have felt deserved a bit more explanation.

I don't know. I'm just on a different wavelength than the writer, apparently.

Subjects

Fiction, science fiction, space opera