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Title: Heris Serrano by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0-7434-3552-4 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Captain Heris Serrano, Sweet Delight
Comment: Heris Serrano is an omnibus edition of the first three novels in the Familias Regnant series, including Hunting Party, Sporting Chance, and Winning Colors. Heris is a Commander in the Regular Space Service when she is framed and set up to be court-martialed, but takes the offer to resign instead. She accepts an interim job as the captain of a private yacht while she searches for a way to be reinstated. As a scion of a multi-generation RSS family, Heris has not had much contact with the ruling families and encounters a number of surprises. Moreover, there is more widespread corruption within the RSS than she expected.
In Hunting Party, Heris gets the job as the captain of Lady Cecelia's yacht, the Sweet Delight, with six guests aboard at family insistence. Heris will command the crew and Bates will command the staff, including the cook and gardener. The first voyage will be to Sirialis for the fox hunting season. On the way, Heris learns that all is not well with the ship and crew.
In Sporting Chance, the Sweet Delight returns to Rockhouse with the heir apparent aboard, along with various bodyguards and several crew replacements. The prince seems to be a little slow and Lady Cecelia brings this to the King's attention. The navigator, Sirkin, is outstanding, but wants to be with her lover, Amalie, who is by no means exceptional; Heris hires Amalie as general labor on a 30 day contract, hoping that she will shape up or that Sirkin will wise up. On top of all this, Heris expects troubles from smugglers due to events in the last voyage.
In Winning Colors, Heris gets two temporary crewmates aboard the Sweet Delight: Brun as a favor to Lord Thornbuckle and Koutsoudas as a favor to Arash Livadhi, a RSS captain and former classmate. Moreover, a court has decided that Heris now owns the yacht despite Lady Cecelia having recovered from her rejuvenation difficulties. Furthermore, Lady Cecelia decides to visit the Xavier system just as the Compassionate Hand is raiding the planet.
Winning Colors provides the first appearance of Esmay Suiza, the senior surviving officer of the RSS Despite after the crew has learned that the former captain was a traitor and mutinied against her. Her actions in the Xavier system lead to Esmay becoming the main character in the next book of the series, Once a Hero.
This series is very British in tone, with dashing young heroes, dinner parties and fox hunting. However, some of the dashing heroes are young women: Esmay, of course, but also Brun in another way. However, the mixture of bumbling and competence would be unbelievable if not for historical precedent; the British are famous for the success of its talented amateurs. Nevertheless, it is the professionals of the RSS that provide the solid core of competence in this series.
This series illustrates the author's talent at characterization as well as her understanding of both surface and spatial combat. The contrast with the technological level of the Paksennarion series is great, but the characterization is just as interesting. This series, however, is quite similar in tone and ambiance to the Sassinak series written with McCaffrey and Nye.
Recommended for Moon fans and anyone who enjoys space adventures with both covert operations and spatial combat.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great Book!!!
Comment: This book is really, Hunting Part, Sporting Chance and Winning Colors all in one big book! If you love the Serrano/Suiza series this is a must have! This sets up all the history, the muder, the mystery, the politics and the past battles so that once we introduce Esmay Suiza into the circles of the Serrano navel family we know exactly where Heris Serrano has been. If you've read the books that center around Esmay Suiza, you definately need to read this book, it will give you a much clearer picture of what all is going on in the Regents Familia. This 3 books in 1 will also give you a window into why Admiral Serrano treats Suzia the way she does... SO all in all its definately worth the reading time and the cost of the book!!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Omnibus
Comment: After stumbling onto one of Elizabeth Moon's earlier books (by way of the Honor Harrington Series). I tried to get all of the books of this universe. I had difficutlies getting copies of the middle story. They were a great read, and went quickly. I love the part of Brun getting Cecilia out of the nursing home. The reader can easily picture the entire mess. While this is a reprint, it is nice to see the three stories put together and readily available.
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Title: Once A Hero by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0671878719 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sporting Chance by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0671876198 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Winning Colors by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0671876775 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0345447603 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon ISBN: 0671721763 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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