BTT – Play editor
Booking through Thursday poses a different question this week:
How about a chance to play editor-in-chief? Fill in the blanks:
__________ would have been a much better book if ______________________.
Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife: Resolute, published by Penguin, would have been a much better book if the author hadn’t dwelled on the ‘booby bomb’ gimmick from the second Kris Longknife book, Deserter.
Using bra padding as an explosive worked well for the Deserter book – cute, not too contrived. In this 4th book, though, the gag grew thin.
Shepherd also needs to tone down some of the angst aspects of the lead character. Yes, she would prefer to avoid the entanglements of family, politics, and becoming ‘princess’ and heir apparent to her interstellar empire. But the series is an action story, not soul-searching philosophy of a contrived situation. Dwelling on the angst of role conflicts seems to be the weakest parts of this book and the series.
But I do like the retro Aunt Tru and the cookies. The worst part of this series, is I misplaced the second book. Which interrupted my fourth re-reading of the sequence (four titles so far). Grr. I just ordered Kris Longknife: Audacious, the next Kris Longknife book.
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