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Bezig met laden... Cold Welcomedoor Elizabeth Moon
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  Tom-e | Jul 17, 2022 |    ) BrielM | Mar 1, 2022 | ) KateKat11 | Sep 24, 2021 | Quote: "How did you know—?” Review: Cold Welcome was illogical on just about every front. I wondered what could possibly justify starting a new series in a world she finished nine years prior. Turns out not a whole lot. The whole book was Kylara Vatta getting lost. On a planet. And no one could get to her. For 200 something days. On a planet. When they have spaceships. Because of weather. On a planet. When they fight battles in space. With no communications. On a planet. When they can send a message across interplanetary distances. On a planet. With weather, during winter, in a polar region. Which no one there has any training for. ... None of this made a lick of sense. I cannot fathom why weather would stop people from rescuing someone on a planet, weather or no weather, when they have spaceship technology. The amount of setup Elizabeth Moon had to make to justify this entire plot was unreal. And it just didn't work, because I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to make myself believe it would work. And the thing is, Cold Welcome could have taken this series in an entirely different direction than Vatta's War went, and made it work. In fact, Elizabeth Moon started to do that. Yet this interesting possible new direction only showed up about 75-80% of the way through the book. Which meant most of this book was seriously setup for this ridiculous scenario, survival in adverse conditions, and a lot of hand wringing from the sidelines. Cold Welcome just tried to repeat the formula that worked in Vatta's War. Sabotage, enemies that are close to you working against your interest, shadow groups no one knows about working against the interests of Vatta and Slotter Key. Lots of side characters that show up to do not a whole lot except provide a different perspective. Grace Vatta being a badass (okay I liked that part). Everything that can go wrong does go wrong but everyone important comes out the other side mostly intact. And honestly I could have forgiven everything I've said until now. Sure, Cold Welcome was boring and not a lot happen and didn't make sense. The ending is what I can't forgive. Elizabeth Moon gave so many hints about what the series could be like in the next book it might as well have been a sledgehammer. But it's like at the last moment she changed her mind and instead of going the interesting route, she chose the boring route. Where we're back to Ky Vatta worried about finances, worried about who is out to get her, and worried about where we are going in the future. (  ) keikii | May 5, 2020 | ) bgknighton | Nov 26, 2019 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence. Summoned to the home planet of her family's business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero's welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance. Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet--a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group's survival but her entire home planet. Praise for Elizabeth Moon Trading in Danger "A mix of space opera, military science fiction and human drama, this is an exciting and often touching novel."--RT Book Reviews Marque and Reprisal "Excellent plotting and characters support the utterly realistic action sequences: swift, jolting, confusing, and merciless. It's a corker!"--Kirkus Reviews Engaging the Enemy "Moon has created a richly imagined universe of different cultures, replete with intriguing characters and the sense of unlimited possibility that characterizes the most appealing science fiction."--School Library Journal Command Decision "One of scifi's best military space series. confirms Moon's place with Lois McMaster Bujold and David Weber in the top tier of turn-of-the-millennium military SF writers."--Syfy Victory Conditions "Rip-roaring action and intriguing science and tactics distinguish Nebula-winner Moon's fifth and final Vatta's War installment. A fine and fitting conclusion to Moon's grand space opera tour de force."--Publishers Weekly"--
"Kylara Vatta is summoned back to the world of Slotter Key, the home planet of the Vatta empire. Ky had never meant to return ... but sometimes family summons cannot be ignored. Yet nothing about this trip will go as planned. When her shuttle is sabotaged, she ends up crashed in arctic waters along with a desperate handful of strangers. It falls to Ky, as ranking officer, to help them survive and find land, but when they arrive on a frozen island that, until now, has always been known as a terraforming failure, what she discovers there is shocking. And now she must not only solve the mystery of who sabotaged her ship, but what it has to do with the secrets a shadowy government faction seems more than willing to kill to keep hidden"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In Cold Welcome, Elizabeth Moon takes up where she left off in Vatta’s War. Ky Vatta’s shuttle is sabotaged as she is returning to Slotter Key, and she and a few survivors are marooned in an icy unpopulated continent that harbors dangerous secrets. Ky uses her leadership skills to organize her band of castaways to survive a cruel winter. Some of the castaways are not to be trusted, and the continent is not as unexplored as it seems. Adventurous stuff and a change of pace for Vatta and company. 4 stars. (