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Jake's Last Mission
by Shannon Haddock
Price:
Free!
Words: 14,380.
Language:
American English.
Published: April 18, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
The entire future of Sweytian/Mugdaran relations rests on one man's shoulders.
That one man, Jake Kavaliro, would really like nothing more than to retire. Unfortunately, while on his last patrol he encounters a Mugdaran determined to restart a war. Now Jake – who's never been known for his skill at diplomacy – has to go and explain what transpired to the Mugdaran Emperor in person.
Once A Hero, Always A Hero
by Shannon Haddock
Price:
Free!
Words: 9,100.
Language:
English.
Published: February 2, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
It started out a visit to buy brandy for their bar, but now it’s an adventure.
Robin Thase and Viktor Blue were retired from the heroing business. But when armed thugs disrupted their negotiations for some brandy, a chain of events started that led to them having to save an alien world, yet again.
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Love or Lust
on July 13, 2013
The story is exactly as described in the description. The two high school freshmen fall in love at first sight, and the book is about them questioning whether it's really love or if it's just lust and the complications they experience at things like a school dance due to being homosexual. One of the things I liked the most about it was that most of the problems between the girls stemmed not from things like lusting after others or any of the other typical romance novel clichés, instead 99% of their problems stemmed from simply misunderstanding what the other meant. It reminded me of a romantic comedy, which, as far as I know, doesn't tend to be a WRITTEN genre. There are things about it that may make it wrong for some people: Both sets of parents are rather open-minded even where their children's sex lives are concerned, and the girls are more mature acting than many, but by no means all, real world 14-year-olds. And a little bit of suspension of disbelief might be necessary to deal with just how quickly they fall in love -- but I think this is handled well since the girls themselves question it. All in all, a very good book, and I eagerly await book two.
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Tsar Wars: Agents of ISIS, Book 1
on June 12, 2014
What stands out the most to me in this book is the characters. They’re all very distinctive and very entertaining/horrifying/whatever words suits that character the best. They felt real, which is something I personally love in a book. The dialogue also felt natural and appropriate to each characters’ personality. The plot was fairly predictable in some ways, but not enough to be annoying. That they were going to get from A to B was certain; it was clearly that kind of book; but how they got there was frequently a nice surprise. I have two minor complaints: A dictionary of the Yiddish terms would’ve been nice, as Google is letting me down on some, and the formatting in the copy I downloaded from Smashwords is a bit weird, with several blank pages and a table of contents that sometimes takes you to the middle of a chapter instead of the beginning. Other than that, this is best space opera I’ve read in ages.