Mutineer by Mike Shepherd is one of my favorite series up to a point. I can't remember at what point I stopped reading it. Series in general tend to lose my interest after three or four books because I feel the main character seems to become too perfect at everything, or they just go off the deep end and you think "that's not what I think the character would do". Kris Longknife reminded me of Honor Harrington, and Honor Harrington got old eventually as well.
I stopped reading Mutineer because there were some gender issues that bothered me, such as female characters who were more traditionally feminine than the protagonist being disrespected and dismissed as silly and stupid in a way that set my teeth on edge every time. Some male authors write female characters who feel real to me, rather than stereotypical, but it turns out that Mike Shepherd isn't one of them. Too bad, because military-SF-with-female-protagonist is a genre of which I am quite fond.
(I only made it one book into the Honor Harrington series. Something about Mary Sue with a magic spacekitty and being banged over the head by the author's politics? I don't remember exactly because I read it about twenty years ago.)
Elizabeth Moon's Familias Regnant universe books are quite good, if you haven't read those yet.
If you don't mind a light SF/romance hybrid, Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair (with bonus virgin male love interest and cheesy psychic cats in space!) is great fun.
I have the first book in Tanya Huff's Valor Confederation series in my TBR pile, so I can't say if that's any good or not yet. Have you read those?
Check on Elizabeth Moon, I've read those. I would love some more by her, I like almost all of her stories.
The Tanya Huff ones I've read, and enjoyed a lot. But, it also suffers from the infallibility syndrome that I mentioned about most series. I think I stopped after the third or fourth one.
Is there something you didn't like about it?
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(I only made it one book into the Honor Harrington series. Something about Mary Sue with a magic spacekitty and being banged over the head by the author's politics? I don't remember exactly because I read it about twenty years ago.)
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This is also my favorite... do you have any recommendations?
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If you don't mind a light SF/romance hybrid, Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair (with bonus virgin male love interest and cheesy psychic cats in space!) is great fun.
I have the first book in Tanya Huff's Valor Confederation series in my TBR pile, so I can't say if that's any good or not yet. Have you read those?
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The Tanya Huff ones I've read, and enjoyed a lot. But, it also suffers from the infallibility syndrome that I mentioned about most series. I think I stopped after the third or fourth one.
I'll check out Games of Command. Thanks.
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