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Cold Welcome

Vatta's Peace, Book 1

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Cold Welcome

By: Elizabeth Moon
Narrated by: Carrie Coello
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After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with this installment in 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.

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The book was readable, but there are a lot of plot holes and inconsistencies than what was established in the first series.

The new narrator is fine, but the plot falls apart after a shuttle crash when an interstellar human empire is unable to land a replacement shuttle in an equivalent of antarctica.

Warning - Spoilers!

Then the author brings in an 'aliens' sub plot related to the terraforming of the world, which goes against all information from the previous books showing that terraforming has been a human endeavour for years (remember Poulsen?).

And then the novel ends with a soft betrayal by Ky's allies over a wrongful death lawsuit of an incompetent traitor that seemingly will cost enough money to freeze all of Vatta's $$$ assets. Lol? Do yourself a favour: Don't read the epilogue

A poor continuation from the first series.

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