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Quarter Share

Trader's Tales, Book 1

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Quarter Share

By: Nathan Lowell
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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What if we sent freighters instead of frigates?

In a universe run by corporations, where profit matters more than life, how can an orphan with no skills, no money, and no prospects survive?

When Ishmael Wang's mother dies in a senseless accident, he's given a choice: leave the planet on his own, or the company will remove him. To avoid deportation Ishmael finds work as a mess deck attendant on an interstellar freighter.

Find out what Ishmael must do to earn his Quarter Share.

©2016 Nathan Lowell (P)2016 Podium Audio Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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If you want aliens and battles in your sci-fi, this is not the story for you. If you want an almost cosy feel, slice of life, regular person doing the best they can story, then you've found it! I loved everything about Quarter Share and will be listening to more by this author. Luckily this seems to be long series.

More than 5 stars

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I liked it no action but it's a person building a career on a ship (which could just as easily been a age of sail setting). mostly it's about the personalities and habits of living there onboard. No blasters fights the action was trade based still interesting and enjoyable I will read the next one.

Different SciFi more life on a starship.

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I would highly recommend getting all the books for the complete journey of this guy coming into his own with ups and downs.

Amazing story, love the traders tails.

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This was a really good story in that it wasn't all explosive all explosions and fighting. The characters way relatable I'm looking forward to the next book Half Share

Excellent story

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Best space adventure I have read in years. very well told life of a green space noob. Ishmael Wong The Legend. I knew you when..

Space hauling Adventure.

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I've read the first two books so far and really enjoyed the content, but they feel like nothing has happened. No tension. No development through struggle. All just good luck and positive events falling in the lap of the main character. If these two books are anything to go by, I'd say the author wouldn't know a Heroes Journey if it walked up and bit him on the face.

Also, they beef up the length of the audio book by including 50 mins of the next book as a preview. It's barely worth using my credits on.

Might be good if maybe the first three books were combined (I guess), but I won't be reading the 3rd book or any others because it's just too bleh.

Sorry to the author. Good premise. Zero story.

Shouldn't be a stand alone book.

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This book was okay, but there was no conflict at all. The protagonist, Ishmael, has to join a ship after his mother’s death and throws himself into learning everything he can about all of the jobs on board in the hopes of discovering what he wants to specialise in. He is a total Mary Sue - good at everything he does, impresses captain and crew at every turn, and helps his friend and the entire crew build up a lucrative trading scheme. That’s literally all that happens. There are no set-backs, no personnel conflict with crew or on stations, no disaster that puts Ishmael’s new knowledge and skills to the test. There’s LOTS of detail about what goods are worth and their price to space ratio. I listened to an hour of the next book that previewed at the and and it seemed like more of the same. It wasn’t badly written prose-wise, but since NOTHING happens, I found it pretty meh. I don’t think I’ll be picking up the second book in this series.

No conflict occurs

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