Lindsay Buroker - Honor's Flight

Author: Lindsay Buroker

Title: Honor's Flight (Fallen Empire #2)

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 3½ stars

No of pages: 223

Reading challenge: A book where a bridge has an important role or the title contains the word "bridge"

Read: 15.12 - 16.12.2017

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My review for the first book in the series

BLURB:

After spending four years fighting for the Alliance, fighter pilot Alisa Marchenko only wants one thing: to reunite with her young daughter. But this involves a journey to her former home world, which has become the last imperial stronghold. Since the imperials have a lot of reasons to loathe members of the Alliance right now, just getting down to the planet will be a challenge, and it doesn’t help that her passengers are stirring up trouble of their own… 

Even if Alisa is able to land, she may find that more questions await her than answers, and that her late husband kept a startling secret from her, one that could change her life forever.

I may have stayed up quite late to finish this book, because once you start a Buroker novel, you really cannot stop before you're done. I may or may not also have read two more short stories in the same sitting as well just because I had no sleep and I was currently in the middle of a Buroker read.

A friend who read these books before me told that the Fallen Empire gets better with each book. I read the first book a couple of months ago, but if my memory serves me right, she's not mistaken. The series does get better the more you read.

Although Honor's Flight is a rather good read for me, I still feel like her Emperor's Edge series has an edge on her other series (that I have read). I feel that there are some similarities between the Fallen Empire and the Emperor's Edge series, but Emperor's Edge is simply better. Not saying that Fallen Empire is bad, but simply based on the books that I have read so far - not much is happening while a lot is happening, but the characters basically at the same place when the story started.

Buroker is really awesome at creating all these different scenarios and in keeping all of the plotlines in a more or less straight line in her head, but what she is missing, is some common sense in regards to the fact that if one's space suit is losing air in space, one does not survive a 1000 meter jump. One dies quite soon even if one is a cyborg. But the characters are really good. I especially like Leonidas the cyborg with his dry humor, Mica the pessimist, and Alisa the optimist.