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Title: Engaging the Enemy (Vatta's War)
ISBN: 0345447573
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
Publicate Date: 2007-01-30
Publish: 2007-01-30
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Elizabeth Moon - Engaging the Enemy
The book was delivered on time and came in good condition. I'm still reading the book. I'm enjoying it so far. I like the strong female character that Elizabeth Moon has chosen for the lead role.
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2: Flopped a bit at the end
So far, this has been the most interesting and fast paced book in this series. It was doing great until about page 300 when killer!Ky, ditzy!Stella, and angsty!Rafe lost all of their character development in the book and returned to their original 2-D selves. The set up for Ky to start taking charge of her navy was weak as well.
Overall, this was still a fairly likable read.
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3: Vatta's War 3
Kylara Vatta has had to leave a glowing future as a military cadet far behind, and now carves out a living in the brutal cut-throat world of interplanetary trading. Her chosen way of life is tough but rewarding and she thinks she is more than capable of holding her own. That is, until a threat emerges that nobody could have forseen ... {wwwlittlebrowncouk}
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4: I found this a fun read with some good twists, and real human nature
I have been completely captivated by the books in this series. I think Moon does a good job writing characters that react in real and human ways. She resolved some incidents in rather unexpected ways, and gives her main characters real and human doubts, concerns, etc. As another reviewer said, do not read this book first - make sure you start at the beginning or you will be confused - but the whole series is really worth reading.
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5: Worth the slog
Much has been made of this book being the first difficult read in the Vatta's War series. It is. The middle portion of the novel turns into something of a job. (In her charming acknowledgments, Moon self-deprecatingly thanked friends and family for curbing her tendencies to go into too much detail; unfortunately, one wishes she had curbed those tendencies even more.)
Happily, the last hundred pages turn things around significantly, thanks to the entertainment derived from one antagonist's intriguing accusations (and his fate) followed swiftly by an excellent space battle. So, if you're slogging through the middle of "Engaging the Enemy," have heart that the "job" becomes pleasure at the end--and reviews have been kinder to book four.
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