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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780441012275
ISBN number: 0441012272
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: November 30, 2004
Publishing house: Ace
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A search for her lost friend leads the female space warrior into a galactic hellhole with no way out.
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This mistitled but excitingly amusing second entry in the Kris Longknife series has Kris, now a pricess in addition to being a lieutenant-JG in the Navy, on a mission to the planet Turantic, which has been manipulated into lockdown by the villian of the piece, the delightfully named Calvin Sandfire. Kris, along with her bodyguard Jack, her very clever computer Nelly--who's been given some enhancement since her debut in "Mutineer"--and her new more-than-maid Abby have arrived there in order to endeavor to rescue her pal Tom, who's been kidnapped.
They do this while Kris is on leave (she hasn't deserted) and soon finds herself engaged in espionage and sabotage--political and industrial--as well as doing her navy thing. She's fitted out (by Abby) with some cool secret-agent style gadgetry and dons a number of disguises along the way. It's all done very tongue-in-cheek, especially when Kris does her princess thing (she's learned the "Royal We" from romantic novels), and you'll probably have more than a few chuckles as you romp through the book.
Notes and asides: I'm not one to engage in a game of "hunt the typos," but when the name of Kris's brother is spelled "Eddie" two lines below it's spelled "Eddy," I cannot fail to notice. Also I should probably mention--in case you didn't read the comments of a previous reviewer--that on page 19 Kris realizes she's never seen a 15-digit phone number before. She still hasn't: the number shown on the page just above has 14 digits.
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Good action. Good yarn. Liberal dogma gets thrown in for no reason. It does nothing to further the story line. Seems preachy
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In Deserter Kris is assigned to a Kamakize class ship to sort out the problems with smart metal technology.
They come to a place where there will be nearly a month stoppage of work, at the same time Tom (one of Krfis's
friends) takes off to a new planet looking for runs. He is with Penny who calls Kris to let her know Tom was
apparently kidnaped by Sandfire a hatchet man for Peterwald. How Penny winds up making the call as described
turns up mysteriously on turns up on Turantic where Tom was taken as military attache is one of several loose
ends in the plot that are glazed over.
Overall a good read although marred by plot problems still well above average for the janre, because of the
inconsistencies-another was a 15 digit phone number that only had 14 digits-I only gave it 3 stars.
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I really enjoyed "Kris Longknife: Mutineer", but the sequel "Deserter" is not as strong a story. (By the way, who chose the silly names for these books? They are in no way a fair description of the action that takes place).
Kris launches herself off on an adventure without her beloved Navy when her friend Tommy goes missing on holiday. Accompanying her are her bodyguard and the most dangerous lady's maid I've ever come across in fiction, plus a few others that crop up as the story unfolds. Trading on her despised status as a princess, Kris "infiltrates" high society and finds that there is more than one dangerous plot threatening her and the planet she's visiting.
I do like Kris herself and the plot outline is a good one, but the execution suffers somewhat from a plethora of characters that aren't given enough to do and an poorly-defined setting. Also, some matters were introduced but never engaged with, like alien technology. And I never thought I'd say it, but I wanted some risks and last-minute hitches rather than everything going perfectly in the big finale.
I'd like to read more of Kris' adventures (some features of "Deserter" hint at a third book in the series), but Shepard needs to be careful that Kris stays properly human. At present she's veering dangerously close to superwoman territory. Some plot elements seem to have no better purpose than to demonstrate how consistently wonderful she is.
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Kristine Longknife has some very determine enemies who'd like nothing better than to axe this prime ministers daughter, billionaire in her own right, member of a extreamly weathy-powerful multi-generational family, and navy lieutenant 2nd class, and now a Princess in a new star nation/empire.
Kris is about to learn just how far her enemies will go to try and kill her. As she says in the very first book if she is going to be "one of those damn Longknives," its time she knew what it was all about. All of Kris's friends will be back plus a couple new ones as Kris once again leads her friends to kick tushy!
The story itself in a interesting one and a fun read. But there are so many inconsistancies; name changes, tense changes, several places the word "a" or "an" is missing, there are spelling errors of the most basic sort and etc, that they take away from the punch of the story. Oh don't get me wrong this is a fun read but it could have used some serious proof editing.
On the whole the story is a decent read.
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