On the run from assassins, Val Con yos�Phelium and Miri Robertson are stranded on a distant planet and must learn to trust each other if they�re going to survive�and learn to love each other if they�re going to heal the dark wounds of their past.
Sixteen-year-old Priscilla Delacroix was declared legally dead by her mother, High Priestess of the Goddess. Banished to survive on her own, Priscilla has roamed the galaxy for ten years as an outcast—to become a woman of extraordinary skill. . . . An experienced officer assigned to the Liaden v...
This review was originally posted on www.thegeekgirlproject.comAgent of Change is the first book in the Liaden Universe series-- and the authors' first novel as well.Agent of Change is an exciting story with characters I fell in love with, and it takes place in a well-crafted, complex world. If y...
In the second novel of the Liaden Universe, Aelliana Caylon is a brilliant mathematician, but is convinced by her brother she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then on a dare, she plays a game of chance and wins a starship. Now she must learn to fly if she is ...
Assistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed lik...
Master trader Er Thom knows the local custom of Liaden is to be matched with a proper bride, and provide his prominent clan Korval with an heir. Yet his heart is immersed in another universe, influenced by another culture, and lost to a woman not of his world. And to take a Terran wife such as sc...
Centuries in the past, mankind fought a seemingly unbeatable adversary from sector to sector across the Spiral Arm until the war ground to a standstill and the Enemy withdrew. Believing that they had won, the citizens of the galaxy rebuilt. The Inner Worlds, which had escaped the worst of the war...
I read this space opera in Kindle format (some typos) in a collection titled The Crystal Variation, containing the first three stories, in chronological order: Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon, Balance of Trade. There is no Table of Contents. No hyperlink to each book. Even worse, no link to the ...
Clan Korval is on, but not of, Surebleak; there is a need for Korval to integrate, to mesh, with the people already there – not just the Bosses. Nova’s son, finds purpose and a sister in attending the new school system being established. The Bedel, the kompani (think gypsies), must find their way...
I found this one harder to follow, as an audio book, than the previous two books in the Theo Waitley subseries. It brings in a host of new characters, including two who share the same body.I often listen to audio books while I do other things. With this one I had to remind myself to pay attention...
Always great to immerse myself back in the Liaden UniverseTM, I've spent so much time imagining Theo's meeting with the larger Koval clan that it was extremely rewarding to see it finally happen on paper. And no disappointment here. Still it doesn't quite feel like Theo world and the larger Kov...
I still feel like this series is sort of thin, but this was a nice follow-up to Scout's Progress. It was kind of oddly paced -- the first three-quarters tells one story, and the last quarter jumps ahead five years and tells a different story, which felt odd to me. I didn't feel like either story ...
#2 in the Theo Waitley series from the Liaden Universe.Theo goes to Pilot Academy to pursue her skills. Carrying some of the theme of the first book (Fledgling), the culture of the Academy World is out of tune with Theo, some good, some bad, and she has to decide what to carry on and what to set ...