{"id":7968,"date":"2018-05-02T22:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T02:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2018-05-08T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:53:52","slug":"review-the-mutineers-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mutineer&#8217;s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoyed Thomas Mays&#8217;s first novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5922\">A Sword Into Darkness<\/a>, and have been looking forward to reading the implied sequel. His new collaboration with Chris Kennedy, <cite>The Mutineer&#8217;s Daughter<\/cite>, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we get a crossover YA\/space-opera that is a bit cramped by having been written to the conventions of the YA form. Also because, if a reliable source is reliable, it was Mays writing to an outline by Kennedy. Where Mays&#8217;s heart is &#8211; in the space-opera parts &#8211; the result has some sparkle and a bit of originality. In the YA parts it is competently executed but strictly from tropeville.<\/p>\n<p>For a plot and setting teaser see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mutineers-Daughter-Revolution-Born-Book-ebook\/dp\/B07BRTDBCJ\">its Amazon page<\/a> -accurate enough, if empurpled. It is also worth noting that this is another book in which the author(s) carefully studied the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/\">Atomic Rockets<\/a> website and gained much thereby.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a bad book; Mays gave it craftsmanlike attention. If you like things going boom in space, you will probably enjoy it even if you are ever so slightly irritated by the insert-plucky-girl-here plot. It proceeds from premise to conclusion with satisfactory amounts of tension and conflict along the way. As long as you don&#8217;t set your expectations much above &#8220;genre yard goods&#8221; it is an entertainment worth your money.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m left thinking that not only can Mays do better on his own, but in fact already has. I want that sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoyed Thomas Mays&#8217;s first novel, A Sword Into Darkness, and have been looking forward to reading the implied sequel. His new collaboration with Chris Kennedy, The Mutineer&#8217;s Daughter, isn&#8217;t it. Instead, we get a crossover YA\/space-opera that is a bit cramped by having been written to the conventions of the YA form. Also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7968\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: The Mutineer&#8217;s Daughter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7978,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}