Books

_In Fire Forged_, David Weber, Jane Lindskold, Timothy Zahn

Short stories and a Weber novella about Honor Harrington and secondary characters, early in their careers.

If you don't like Honor Harrington, but like the universe for some reason, you could do worse than to read the short stories herein. So that's a population of a dozen or so people? For the HH fans, she's in the novella, battling pirates in Silesia. For unbearably nerdy technodweeb fanatics, there's a sixty page technical note on armor and warhead design. I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to read it, just skim it.

Books

_In Fire Forged_, David Weber, Jane Lindskold, Timothy Zahn

Short stories and a Weber novella about Honor Harrington and secondary characters, early in their careers.

If you don't like Honor Harrington, but like the universe for some reason, you could do worse than to read the short stories herein. So that's a population of a dozen or so people? For the HH fans, she's in the novella, battling pirates in Silesia. For unbearably nerdy technodweeb fanatics, there's a sixty page technical note on armor and warhead design. I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to read it, just skim it.

Books

_The Two-Minute Rule_, Robert Crais

Crime drama. Crooked cops (LA). A protagonist who just finished ten years in the pen for bank robbery. 1100 FBI agents in LA? Really? Three bank robberies daily, M-F? Well, I guess somewhere has to beat Boston.

There's a problem with a limited cast of characters and an identify-the-villain scenario: if you're playing completely fairly with the reader, then they can work out who it is before the protagonist does. In this case, I worked out the motive and the antagonist a few pages before the protagonist.

Despite not having conventionally likable characters, the writing is clear and the plot sufficiently twisty to keep me glued to the book.

Books

_The Two-Minute Rule_, Robert Crais

Crime drama. Crooked cops (LA). A protagonist who just finished ten years in the pen for bank robbery. 1100 FBI agents in LA? Really? Three bank robberies daily, M-F? Well, I guess somewhere has to beat Boston.

There's a problem with a limited cast of characters and an identify-the-villain scenario: if you're playing completely fairly with the reader, then they can work out who it is before the protagonist does. In this case, I worked out the motive and the antagonist a few pages before the protagonist.

Despite not having conventionally likable characters, the writing is clear and the plot sufficiently twisty to keep me glued to the book.