Monday
I finished ROLE PLAYING by Cathy Yardley on Friday. I gave it 4 stars. It won't be a romance for everyone. It deals a lot with his sexual identity.
I struggled a little about what to read next. I didn't want to get too involved in a big book because of the new releases tomorrow. Also, I didn't want to read a fantasy because that would be too similar to the one tomorrow. This book I'm currently reading, I apparently purchased in 2017 and never got around to it. I don't know why. I'm really liking it.
NO HONOR IN DEATH by Eric Thomson. 1st of 8 in Siobhan Dunmoor sci fi series.
Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies wore an Imperial uniform. A reputation for bad luck was pretty much the only reputation she had left.The frigate Stingray was known as the unluckiest ship in the Fleet and her Captain had just been removed in disgrace for cowardice. Some in the Admiralty would dearly love to retire the old warhorse. After all, she was the last of her type left in service, and perhaps it was time to break up the jinx permanently, along with the crew. But in the midst of an interstellar war, every ship that could fight was needed. In short order, Dunmoore went from staring down the Empire's finest on the bridge of a wrecked battleship to taking on a demoralized, semi-mutinous crew, scheming Admirals and a deadly mystery. Stingray's bad luck wasn't just superstition gone rampant. Between a crew that won't talk, political enemies who want her gone, and her personal demons, she's got her hands full. Taking the frigate into battle under those conditions would seem foolish to anyone else, but Dunmoore was never one to shrink from a good fight. Failure was not an option, and defeat not an acceptable alternative, for there was no honor in death.
Published 2014; 342 pages.
This weekend I picked up a new webcam. An upgrade. The only down side is that the lens is wider so it was picking up the messy room behind more than the other camera. BUT ... this camera lets me choose different fake backgrounds so you don't see the room.
Had a good weekend otherwise. I don't have reading sprints on my channel this evening but I will be turning in to the readings sprints after work on another channel. I'd like to finish this book this evening so I'm free to read the one -- maybe two! -- new releases. I'll tell you about it (or them) tomorrow.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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