What a great start to a series!!! The best stories I've ever read with a 21 year old MC.I thought I'd signed up for a space opera with a swashbuckling female captain, pesky pirates and strange aliens. Instead, I got level headed Ky who has a head for business and military training and a peek at a some complicated galactic corporate politics. There were no romantic distractions, no over the top heroics, just pure pragmatism and creative problem solving in a very unlucky and dicey situation. It ma...

I am too busy for life at the moment. But, you know what?I enjoyed the shit out of this.

I really liked Weber's 'Honor Harrington' series & the main reason this almost got 3 stars is that it is too close to that. It was a very enjoyable read & well written. The universe is well thought out & the characters well done, but there isn't anything new about any of it. Still, if you want a quick, relaxing read with an excellent heroine, this is a good book to sit down with.One thing I really liked was that it was very self-contained. Sure, there are other books following, but this one come...

A very welcome change in pace after reading a couple of historical fiction novels and a non-fiction book about sex! Trading in Danger is strategy-filled space opera. Kylara Vatta, or Ky for short, is a young woman kicked out of military academy for being a little too trusting. Relegated to commanding an obsolete ship that is on its last voyage as part of her family’s massive trading empire, Ky senses the opportunity for profit … and lands smack in the middle of a warzone. Elizabeth Moon brings u...

3.5I marathoned through this series and literally couldn't put it down. It's a highly entertaining sci-fi adventure story. Moon does an especially good job with the military aspects, especially the ins and outs of communications during war and the choreography of space battles. For many reasons the series, especially the first volume, invites comparisons with Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series, which unfortunately spotlights the weaknesses here: the shallowness of the overarching allegory, a genera...

4.5*I saw this title, and series, being recommended by Rachel on her BookTube channel, Kalanadi, and couldn’t resist trying it. So happy I did - loved it!Ky Vatta finds herself booted out of the military’s academy for something that wasn’t really her fault. Before she can adjust to this injustice, her father, owner of one of the biggest interplanetary shipping companies, gets her away from all the commotion by giving her a job: take an old ship to the scrapyard. Naturally, things happen...The pl...

“Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War #1)” is an amazing, and very enjoyable, military scifi story with strong women as many of the lead characters. The story isn’t lesfic, and there is very little time spent on hetero romances. There is though, lots and lots of time spent building a believable universe, with believable characters that are individually crafted, and lots of time spend on action. The action is very personal; the spacecraft and futuristic weaponry take backseats to the motivations, hopes...

This was incredibly fun. A simple enough plot but with an MC so real. More in depth review to come.

Man, what a fun book. It pairs extremely well with C.J. Cherryh's merchanter novels (which I can't stop talking about, srynotsry), since the titular Vatta Corporation is a hereditary business of traders and transporters -- which involves the tangled web of family and business, the dogged push for the bottom line, rubbing elbows with galactic government and mercenaries.Their wayward daughter Kylara Vatta is ignobly expelled from a military academy for the mistake of trusting the wrong person, and...

4.25 stars - a very enjoyable story about the very young female captain of a trading vessel in space. She's supposed to take it on its last voyage, but can't resist the temptation to try to make enough profit to save it from the scrapyard - which strands her defenseless in the middle of a small war. If you enjoy realistic character-focused stories of clever problem-solving, negotiations, handling unfair accusations and some action, then I think this would be a good recommendation. I enjoyed it i...

Well, this is a "space opera" type of novel told from the point of view of a young captain on her first voyage as the captain of a merchant vessel. Direct from a shattering disappointment and possible scandal Kylara Vatta takes command of a small, obsolete trading vessel in her wealthy family's fleet. Sent to sell the ship for scrap she has other potentially more profitable ideas.But then does anything ever go as planned?Not if you want an exciting novel. It's almost as if someone had said, "wel...

Having read a later one in this 5-part space opera series several years back (Vatta’s War), I pursued this one to get at the beginnings of the story on its tough, no-nonsense character, Ky Vatta. She gets unfairly booted out of the space academy and takes on a job in her father’s trading company transporting an old ship on its last shipping run on the way to sale for scrap. On the way, she takes the initiative on an additional shipping contract for agricultural equipment and finds herself strapp...

Plainly written and straightforward, but nonetheless engaging.Ky Vatta is kicked out of the military academy and is assigned by her space shipping magnate family to pilot an old cargo hauler to the scrapyard. En route Ky undergoes a journey of personal transformation, and there's a bit more excitement during what was supposed to be a routine voyage than the ship's crew expects or wants.It's a good, solid read and Ky is both likeable and full of potential. I liked her serious and clear headed way...

I guess I didn't know exactly what to expect with this, but just looking at the cover made me think it was a bit of mil-sf-type space-opera fluff along the lines of Harrington, so I didn't think about giving it much of a chance. But when the opportunity finally presented itself, along with a bit of guilt that I would dismiss the author so easily, I finally sat down to make an actual informed opinion.I'm very glad I did.It's not exactly mil-SF, even if it begins with that setup. From there, it qu...

Military space actiony stuff, which sadly pales in comparison to Lois McMaster Bujold, who (besides stuff like Star Wars, I guess) provided my first exposure to that genre. The problem, I think, is that there are really no (developed, memorable) characters in Trading in Danger besides the protagonist, Kylara Vatta, which means there’s no one for her to bounce off of. It made the whole story seem very narrow. I also found the denouement rather clunky and dull. I wouldn’t be adverse to reading th...

A very enjoyable read, if you wanting mega firefights with fancy out of this world technical jargon with spaceships or battle scenes with fancy weaponry then this not for you.you want a great character driven storyline, which deals with lifes ups and downs and how people react with those around them and handle what get chucked at us dealing with it all in the best possible way we can. We do our best.what dosent kill us makes us a better stronger person to deal with the next thing life brings to

Ahoy there me mateys! I have been wanting to read a book by this author forever and was going to start with the novel, cold welcome. I heard about the book from the review by Sarah @ brainfluff and immediately added it to the list. Where it sat. It sat there long enough for Sarah to review the second book in the series. By luck or coincidence, I had just picked up cold welcome to read when I saw Sarah’s review of book two which ended with “This is recommended for fans of science fiction thriller...

This was a fun space opera read that I might have given 4 stars to except that the ending was kind of boring and the book was fairly predictable. Regardless, I liked it and will read the next one. Oh - PS - don't be taken in by the comparisons of this series to the Vorkosigan books. The world building, the characters and the charm of Bujold's series are in no way comparable to this series.

OK, I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for space opera. Have been ever since my grandfather gave me a copy of E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Galactic Patrol" to read back when I was 9 years old. Always will be. And "Trading in Danger" is space opera....I cracked the book shortly before midnight last night and finished it around 4AM. I'm a fast reader, but I'm not that fast. Frankly, there's a fair amount of fluff... lots and lots of details that neither advance the plot nor provide significant additional insight

2022-01: 4 stars. I am so glad some GR buddies decided to read this, as I’ve been meaning to return to this series. I don’t have anything much to add to my earlier thoughts, other than, I really enjoyed this book on my reread. I loved the trading and financial details, and how much time it took to get things done. That made this space opera feel real to me, as well as the focus on the mental health implications of Ky’s actions on her and her crew during the attempted mutiny and subsequent action...