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Mutineer

Kris Longknife, Book 1

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Mutineer

By: Mike Shepherd
Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
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Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the prime minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris' blood - and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the Marines.

She has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle among her powerful family, a highly defensive - and offensive - Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. Then an ill-conceived attack brings the war close to home, putting Kris' life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space - or mutiny.

©2004 Mike Moscoe (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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Mike Sheperd writes a really good story, multi-layered and with a good dry wit. Listen to the narrator before buying as, if you can't 're-read' it in your mind, you'll find the voice a problem. Tommy's funny Irish could be put down to the Chinese influence but, as another has said, the Scots is awful! I disagree that Shepherd had the Scots as English however. He was comparing the Lorna Doon Officers Mess with the English in India... Well, listen/read and make up your own mind. I've gone on to get more I like the story that much.

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I'm from a navy family and i really like the book and the book is interesting

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While I generally liked the performance on this one, Dina Pearlman can't do Scottish accents for toffee. I'm inclined to believe she's reading the written down accent however, since the author doesn't know what a Yorkshire Pudding is.

I liked this, but it did seem to have more text than story; ie. it was a little long, as in elongated for word count. Kris suffers from that most unfortunate of character conditions, not seeing the bleeding obvious until 5 minutes after the reader. However, the plot is pretty good, the action is realistic, the spaceships actually use a form of Newtonian physics (at least as far as sublight travel is concerned), and Kris is a likeable character.

One of the strongest points of the book is also its weakest. Mike Shepherd was a Navy brat according to his bio and the book is jammed full of naval jargon which is very authentic-sounding, very atmospheric, and requires you to look up half the words before you can figure out what gives. Kris is a Boot Ensign; I spent the first 5 minutes of the book looking that up on Wikipedia. There's such a thing as too much authenticity.

Scottish Accents Not a Strong Point

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there's 16 books in this series and I like how this first book went. im #TeamTom the true wingman any girl could ask 4. I also like the AI hope she does more going fwd. I was wondering why the book had this title for the longest time and I didn't get it... now im worried about the next book's title.
The narrator has a very bad accent going for Tom but you know what?it's consistent which is what a girl needs in the end.

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There is a lot to like about this book, it's a quality military SF novel with shades of Honour Harrington without being a mindless clone. The narration is generally good if not quite to my taste.

The only problem is when the narrator feels the need for a 'Scottish' or to a lesser extent 'Irish' accent (both of which are quite prominent) the results are best approached with some preparation.

Shame about the accents

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