MOAR SPACE BATTLE PLZ. What's this Vatta's Peace I have to deal with next?? I hope she means peace like Peacekeeping missiles.

I read this entire series over the past week, and, until the final volume, it was acceptably mediocre. Victory Conditions, however, is just terrible.Space Opera inevitably descends into munchkin power gaming, and this is a prime example of how not to do it. Dei ex machina, painfully predictable plot coupons, and, when a whole bunch of minor characters who had spanned much of the series die violently, a three page gesture towards sorrow in an attempt to give the lead character some depth. Feh.

short review of the series (huge novel split into 5) under Trading in dangerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Two major things really "elevated" this book to a failure over the rest of the series (there were many other annoyances, but these two stand out)"1. The entire series is chock full of deus ex machina moments to help Ky out in ways only lazy writers could find acceptable, one of which is when Ky magically gets a person-to-person ansible embedded in her implant, through which she and Rafe can chat in secret directly with each other, superluminally.But when that would be really damn great to confir...

Genre: Space Opera/Military Sci FiThis is probably the weakest book of the Vatta’s War series, it wrapped everything up all neat and tidy but it took too many short-cuts. Despite the relationship between Gammis Turek (pirate leader) and Lew Parmina (former head of ISC, biggest company in the known universe) being critical to the success of the pirates in earlier books, it’s never explained WHY they were working together, or even that they WERE directly working together. It’s hinted at a lot, but...

“Victory Conditions (Vatta’s War #5)” concludes the epic military scifi adventure story of Ky Vatta as she builds a unified space force to stand against pirates, and as her friends and family try to rebuild the economic empires of Vatta and InterStellar Communications Corporation (ISC) .Politics, personalities, space battles, abductions, killings, deceptions, betrayals, declarations of love and fade to black (hetero) sex….this book covers lots of ground!Raf still annoys me for some reason, but I...

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A great end to a good Space Opera. It’s true, though, that all five of these books make up a single long novel. No doubt about it. From the abuse in the first to the returned humiliation in the last, from starting with almost nothing to being the top of the game, the whole sequence satisfies.If you like Bujold’s Space Opera, want it distilled down to the economic, spycraft, and warcraft elements, then this will be your speed. Or if you like MilSF at all, this will be a fun read.No complaints. Ex...

No, this isn't a blog entry about my Swedish campaign game in Empire Total War. Rather "Victory Conditions" is the name of the 5th and final book in Elizabeth Moon's "Vatta's War" series. This is a science fiction series that I started unexpectedly last year. You see, I was on a business trip and had run out of reading material. Now that's not a bad thing in my brain because it means I get to go to the bookstore and buy something that looks good to me right then and there. Since I have such a ba...

A great end to a fun series. All the threads are drawn together into a fairly predictable, but nonetheless satisfying conclusion. The characterization remained good. Overall, it's pretty much more of the same of the previous 4 books which really should be read in order to appreciate fully. They do stand well enough alone that if you happened to pick up any one, you'd still have a fun read, though.

Well I am finally done with Vatta's War and it's time to say what I think about it.I would not recommend the serie, it's not bad but it's not an earth shattering read that absolutely needs to be done. The whole set of books gets a 3 stars rating for me, maybe I should qualify this. This is not really a set of 5 disconnected books but more a story told over 5 relatively short books. Character development is not really great and action is sometime sparse. All in all an average read, it will keep y...

Ahoy there me mateys! This here be a combined review of the fourth and fifth books of the Vatta’s War series. While I try to post no spoilers, if ye haven’t read books one through three and ye keep reading this log then ye have been forewarned and continue at yer own peril . . .Well book four started out in an odd fashion. Book three ended suggesting a certain direction and then that didn’t happen. I really wanted to visit a specific planet. Alas. I also know I said that book three felt like a p...

Somewhere - belatedly - around the halfway mark of Victory Conditions, I started wondering what exactly I was trying to prove by slogging through this series. I'd already given it a second and third chance to redeem itself, and each book seemed worse than the one before: characters behaved erratically, the plot made no sense whatsoever, Chekhov's whole freaking armory lay forgotten and gathering dust...I'm sorry to report this one isn't any better. I don't know that I'd say it's the weakest inst...

"If there's been a completely honest government in the history of humankind, no history book's ever mentioned it."Excellent. Moon drew all the essential threads into a satisfying climax, and left enough to remind the reader that life goes on. Moon's forte is interpersonal relationships over interstellar distances. It's easy to get out of sync, and she explores many of the ways complex, if-bigger-than-life people get cross ways with each other and the world(s).A good read of the space opera varie...

I rather dislike Rafe.December 5 2017---I rarely reread - much more so recently, but still I rarely reread. So the number of series I've reread, completely, can be counted on one hand. There's this series here - the Vatta War one (yes, it continues in Vatta Peace, but I've never read that one). Then, hmms, Jae's Hollywood series. Oh, heh, that's it. Those two. I came really close to rereading Jae's Shape-shifter series, I've read all but the last book and last two short stories, but . . . my ene...

Nice wrap up book to the series. Overall a nice SiFi story. Good characters and plots. Enjoyable read. Recommended

I know I am going high with the 5 stars, but it is for the all-together feel of the series. I know it is light, I know it is a bit corny, and I even know it is no where close to perfect, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and am sad it is finished... I hope Ms. Moon gives us some sequels, for which the structure of the story is perfectly set up.

Bottom line: I really enjoyed this series. Not ground-breaking, but everything about this series is solid. The character development, plot, action, and military/political setup are solid, and this consistently better-than-adequate "quality," combined with how fun the series is, and fantastic (and discernibly different an believable) female characters, makes this a great read. I binged these suckers like I would marathon sci-fi television. Vatta's War doesn't take itself too seriously, and it's n...

Originally posted at FanLit. http://www.fantasyliterature.com/Victory Conditions is the fifth and final book in Elizabeth Moon’s VATTA’S WAR saga. This has been a solidly entertaining story with appealing characters and an unpredictable plot but it never quite pulls itself past its classification of “space opera.” If space opera is what you’re looking for, VATTA’S WAR delivers and this last installment, Victory Conditions, brings the Vatta story to a satisfying end. If you haven’t read the first...

Vatta's War series 1 Trading in Danger 2 Marque and Reprisal 3 Engaging the Enemy 4 Command Decision 5 Victory Conditions These 5 books are not so much a series as one long novel - there's one story arc, and you really need to read all five to get to the (satisfying) conclusion. (I somehow had the misapprehension that there were only 4 in the series - luckily the public library came through and got me #5 expediently!)Due to a misjudgement, Kylara Vatta, scion of an interstellar shipping business...