Honor and Shadows (Starlight's Shadow, #0.5)

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Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Publisher Unknown, 64 pages

Description

Honor and Shadows is a 10,000-word prequel novelette set just before the start of Hunt the Stars. Captain Octavia Zarola needs an infusion of credits-fast-if she's going to keep her close-knit bounty hunting crew paid and fed. Tracking down an escaped embezzler on a backwater planet should be a piece of cake, but bounties are rarely as easy as they seem. As the crew closes in on their quarry, the hunt becomes entangled with a local criminal overlord, and Tavi will have to decide what's more important: money or honor, and how much she's willing to risk for either one.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Glennis.LeBlanc
This is a good intro to the first book. You meet the crew and see their personalities as they are trying to bring in a large bounty. Not too much to say about it since it is only a novelette.
LibraryThing member funstm
A short novella introducing Captain Octavia Zarola, a bounty hunter and former soldier and the crew of her spaceship, Starlight's Shadow while they are on a job to track down a fugitive.

This was an enjoyable read. The author strikes a good balance between worldbuilding, explanations, character
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development and plot. There's a lot of action sprinkled with just enough descriptions for me to not to feel too lost. But not so much I don't feel like I wouldn't be interested in reading the rest of the series.

I liked the main character Tavi and her crew, Eli - the first officer, Kee - the systems engineer and their mascot, Luna - a burbu (which is basically a cat/ferret/fox mix) that can communicate telepathically. I would have liked for Tavi to be a bit more bloodthirsty (she's pretty pacifist) but it wasn't a deal breaker.

I'm curious to see where the story goes. 4 stars.
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Original publication date

2022-11-01

ISBN

1641972289 / 9781641972284
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