On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@me.com> wrote:

> On 5 Apr 2018, at 14:37, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
> Reading the second book in Elizabeth Moon's "Vattas Peace" series.
>
> Ky Vatta is definitely a PC:
>
> "We ready?" he asked when Ky had settled herself into the backseat.
>
> "Better Be." Ky said. "I'd hate to have wasted all those hours trying
> to make this plan as shaky and unworkable as possible.”

> <snip/>

I thought this one was a bit weak…

Me, also. This one was more like reading an after-action report than experiencing an adventure. I kept waiting for Ky to do something dramatic, but she never did. It didn't help that her Opposition here was *beyond* stupid. NOTE: I did like how Stella came into her own, though.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.