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Kris Longknife: Mutineer [Mass Market Paperback]

Mike Shepherd (Author)
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Kris Longknife joined the navy to escape the shadow of her politically powerful family. Her first mission is rescuing a kidnapped child. Her second takes her to a planet decimated by a volcanic eruption. Despite everything she does to be a good ensign, two things stop her: numerous attempts on her life and a habit of forging ahead and getting things done, regardless how dangerously. Finally, she has to lead a mutiny. The politicians in her family are trying to prevent war. She agrees with them but insists on remaining in the navy. The ship she is on is part of a conspiracy to instigate war by attacking an Earth fleet during peace negotiations, but thanks to her superior information sources, she discovers this. The marines and other space sailors follow her because she is a born leader. This is a fast-paced adventure in which the heroine does a lot of maturing and eventually understands her family and how much she is a part of it. Regina Schroeder
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As a marine of Wardhaven, Kris Longknife has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful family, a highly defensive-and offensive-Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. But an ill-conceived attack is bringing the war close to home and putting Kris's life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space-or mutiny.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Stupid!, April 20 2004
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Jack Gardner "jvg1" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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Ce commentaire est de: Kris Longknife: Mutineer (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the stupidest thing I ever read! I quit reading at page 169, where a Navy officer and some of the other soldiers, all who have volunteered for the service and gone through training and are carrying rifles, express moral qualms against fighting back against an expected ambush and killing maurading thugs who kill and rape and steal food form starving children.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Space Navy novel, Feb 23 2004
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Ce commentaire est de: Kris Longknife: Mutineer (Mass Market Paperback)
I love Elizabeth Moon's space navy books for their excellent characters and great politics and battles. In Kris Longknife: Mutineer, Mike Shepherd visits similar territory, but the Longknife family runs the place, and Kris's family are in the history books and sometimes in her parent's house (her great grandfathers are still alive and kicking). Kris is young, smart, and most important, she pays attention.

I enjoyed this book immensely, and am looking forward to the next one. (I wonder what Mike's title was; this title sounds more like marketing than anything else.)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but sloppily written military SF, Feb 22 2004
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Dan Bloch (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Kris Longknife: Mutineer (Mass Market Paperback)
I kept saying to myself, 'this is really bad,' every page or so, but I finished the book anyway, so it does have something to recommend it.

Good points:
- Good characters, well portrayed.
- Good action scenes.
- A neat technology, 'smart metal,' which lets ships change shape depending on what you need them for. Though we never really see how it happens--we just see before and after.
- The protagonist was probably an alcoholic as a child, something I've never seen done in literature before, but again the camera blinks and we later hear that 'maybe it was just the pills her mother made her take,' and she occasionally has a drink, and except for some angst it doesn't affect her.
- The Palm Pilot equivalents of the future with personalities. It's been done before, but it's handled nicely here.

Bad points:
- The title is poor, since Kris is only a mutineer for a few pages, about 350 page into the book.
- The name Longknife is implausible enough, but a kris _is_ a long knife. That's just over the top...
- Enemies are sometimes straw figures. After an initially convincing setup they often roll over and play dead as needed. Allies too--why wouldn't her father, the Prime Minister of her planet, investigate attempts on her life?
- Technology often appears just to do some job, isn't explained, and then goes away.
- In a similar vein, her great-grandfathers are over a hundred and still active, but the longevity situation is never mentioned and there are no other old characters.
- Somewhat muddled politics, only explained gradually over the course of the book.
- The family relationships are also only explained hundreds of pages into the book.
- Both of Kris's paternal grandfathers are named Longknife. Either there's inbreeding going on or it didn't occur to the author how names are handed down.
- Quiet a bit of heavy-handed sermonizing, which I skipped over.
- Lots of minor errors, e.g.,
+ p.297 has Grandpa Ray storming Black mountain instead of Grandpa Trouble
+ we've been told it's the 24th century, but p.319 has a date in the 25th century
+ Kris is described as tall, but on p.364 we're told she weighs 123 pounds.

In a nutshell, it's a fun enough read if you don't take it too seriously, but it needed more editing.

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