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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780671319649
ISBN number: 0671319647
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: December 01, 2000
Publishing house: Baen
Release Date: November 28, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 77894
Studio: Baen
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This is a wonderful set of books, but I'm not sure I have seen more "spell-check" errors in a published work in my life... Nearly every other page has the WRONG word correctly spelled... just one letter wrong, but one must re-read the same sentence several times to figure out what is being said...
Very annoying...!
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This novel is a wonderful nitty, gritty work of art. More fantasy needs to be like it. Any supernatural "luck" or unrealism is well-earned by the character. Many who like or love Tamora Pierce or Mercedes Lackey will also like this story. Baen.com has a rather lengthy excerpt of it. If you don't believe me, go read that. A medium paced novel that took me a few days to read, it won't read like a glacier, but it is still satisfying.
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This book had me hooked after the very first couple of pages and i have not been a big reader of female authors. Moon's experience in the military really comes out in her writing. There is just the right amount that it doesn't bore you to death, but instead is very intriguing. This is a great book if you like a hero or heroine that starts out as a novice fighter and becomes a veteran of a military company that fights all over there is no stagnant parts of the book. Paks was a very refreshing character for me, and the story moves through many different lands and, and there are no shortage of battles and fighting.
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A friend of mine talked me into reading this book. I have read all of Elizabeth Moon's books except for the Paksenarrion series. (I highly recommend the Serrano series). Anyways, Paks surprised me. I couldn't wait for the subsequent two books, Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold, to arrive in the mail.
Paks learns that a warrior's life is different from what she expected. She is a humble, ferocious fighter. She experiences lots of turmoil and perseveres. Elizabeth Moon does an excellent job with characters and their inner struggles.
If you like swordplay and battle strategy, this book is a good read. There are some graphic scenes of torture which surprised me. Moon doesn't really write like that in her other series.
Amazon, please make these books available on Kindle.
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Moon was a junior USMC officer for a short while back in the early `70s, which apparently is supposed to give verisimilitude to her storytelling, but I don't think association is really necessary. She does a very workmanlike job with this very first volume in a trilogy, a combination of military SF, medieval fantasy, and bildungsroman. Paks is a tall, strong young woman from a farm way out in the boonies who has no intention of following her father's orders to marry the pig-farmer down the road, so she leaves home in search of glory and adventure by way of joining a mercenary company. There are good, honorable companies and very bad ones, but (of course) she ends up as a recruit in one of the best, gaining friends and respect as she learns the trade of an infantryman. But (also "of course") there's more in store for Paks than just life in the ranks, and as she passes from novice to blooded veteran to acting noncom, those around her begin to receive hints that she's someone special, that there's something uncommon in store for her -- even though, being practical and hardheaded, she'd rather not think much about such things. Moon plays fair with the reader; the entire story (except for one slightly odd chapter late in the book) is told from Paks's POV, so she doesn't always appreciate the larger strategic picture. We, the omni-observant readers, see things happen in the development of a campaign that she doesn't quite understand, and that's the way it works in real life. And plans go awry, and friends get killed, but the hero survives, even if she sometimes wishes she hadn't. A very enjoyable book.
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