Victory Conditions (Vatta's War)

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Elizabeth Moon: Victory Conditions (Vatta's War) (2009, Del Rey)

Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages

Published Jan. 27, 2009 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-0-345-49162-6
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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reviewed Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon (Vatta's War, #5)

A worthy end to a great series

5 stars

I've been really enjoying this series of books, and it's kind of sad that It's already over, It feels just long enough and you get to know the characters really well, still, even though I in some ways wish it was longer, at the same time it felt just long enough.

All in all I even found this last one to be the best in the series, the way that things are kind of high stakes but still not too high stakes, and it takes time to have some down-time as well was just really enjoyable :)

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2 stars

"What an idiot", the protagonists in Vatta's War keep exclaiming, and with good reason. It really feels that everyone in this series who is not either a main character, or super impressed by one, is well and truly an idiot. This results in a novel series that's on the surface about interstellar war, but is in reality about a war against an unceasing parade of criminally stupid obstructive bureaucrats.

This gets really tedious for the reader, as there seems to be no bigger point to be made here: everyone but the protagonists is just blindingly stupid and stubborn, constantly doing The Wrong Thing in order to provide yet another convoluted twist for a plot that would be engaging and interesting, if it wasn't for all the Idiot Ballgames that keep interrupting it. That's the tragedy here: there's an actual gripping war story to be told here, but it keeps getting …

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