Coward edition by HT Phair Literature Fiction eBooks
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Major Rory of the Ronan Officer Lineage, Active Duty Division, was raised to be a soldier, but she falls in love instead. Her dreams for a family and home of her own are shattered to an endless nightmare when her husband and young son are killed before her eyes. The military orders her to a suicide mission but the heartbroken soldier has seen enough of death. To save her squad, she disobeys orders and seals her own fate in the process. Beaten, broken and branded, she is sentenced not to the death she hoped for, but to a lifetime in a distant planet's underground penal colony doing hard labor.
A lifelong homophobe, Rory is horrified when she learns she must sleep with a young woman, Rabbit, in order to survive the frigid nights. Rabbit's sweet innocence confuses Rory's long-held beliefs. When a sliver of a chance is offered to reclaim her freedom, Rory will use any means to achieve it, including allowing herself to fall in love again. But this time, she's falling in love with a woman named Rabbit.
Coward edition by HT Phair Literature Fiction eBooks
////\\\\Sorry, lots of spoiler alerts////\\\\Oh My Goodness!! This book was phenomenal. Ok here's why I loved it. First of all, the lead character, Rory moved from a complete homophobe to Rabbit's lover in realistic, believable steps. We saw Rory's inner thoughts and shared her slow, unwilling journey as she began to think with all her brain. By really letting us understand the true depth of Rory's honor code, her respecting, protecting and finally loving Rabbit is real for and not just a PWP (Plot? What plot?) device to rush on to the intimate scenes.
I enjoyed the way Rabbit grew from a damaged, frightened, uneducated, unloved girl with no self respect to a woman who is truly an equal partner for hero Rory. The way Phair consistently used her pidgin language made her even more three dimensional and much less of a caricature. Again, she didn't wake up one day and decide to assert herself. Rabbit naturally evolved and matured as a person with very believable two steps forward and one step back.
Just like the Ash series, with this first read, I was so interested in seeing what would happen next that I will really enjoy my next few readings of Coward so I can spend time appreciating all the minor characters in the book. The plot had me up very late last night and I should have gone to sleep two hours ago but I had to finish the book and write this review. So I think that's the best way to describe how I feel about the plot. Sci-fi was a great way to frame the story, but the plot was so strong it would have worked just as well in about any historical period. Sadly, many authors spend so much time trying to make us readers fall in love with their particular sci-fi cannon that they forget that we just want to enjoy a book, not embrace their sci-fi world because it's sooo fascinating.
Overall this book was incredible. I didn't think I could enjoy this book more than Ash's adventures but I was so glad I was wrong! I'll be buying everything else she's written. Phair, thanks for sharing your talent, craft, hard work and wonderful imagination with all of us lucky readers.
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Coward edition by HT Phair Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I am happy to see this title in print, because it gives an old Xenite like myself a chance to support one of the many authors of fan fiction. Theses authors spent hours toiling away for free giving their fans similar hours of enjoyment.
I loved the story years ago, and enjoyed the revisit to Xena fandom.
I thought this was a very good book. Very human, very intense. It made one think about life and where we fit into it. I will buy another book from this author.
A classic sci-fi space drama. I have read it several times now and it blows my mind each time. The story-line is intensely gripping even through the brutality, and pain the characters suffered--and all of the pain and brutality is not for shock value, it is actually part of the setting, a harsh prison planet, and part of a build-up of a relationship between the two main characters.
I found the torture and brutality to be overdone. The "military bad, prison awful" message, as conveyed by repeated scenes of whippings, torture, and rape, was hammered so repeatedly as to become gratuitous.
I also was completely creeped out by the love story at the story's center. That Rabbit was a horribly abused, mentally disadvantaged young woman, in my mind, made her incapable of giving consent (in the same way that minors and prisoners cannot either). It made her relationship with Rory feel exploitative.
That said, the concept was interesting enough that I finished the book to see how the author would conclude it. The conclusion left many open questions, but pulled the story's threads together enough to make the ending mostly satisfying.
I love reading sci fi and about a dystopian future...
So this book was made for my reading pleasure.
The blurb says what you need to know about the plot.
What I loved about this book
It gives you just the right amount of details for you to imagine the universe created in this book. And at the same time it is subtle enough in it's subtext to let you fill in the blanks. If you remember your history lessons from from school read this and you know what I mean... I love books for adults that lets your mind speculate instead of cramming everything down in words, which tend to (for me anyway) make a book tedious and YA'ish instead of just for adults.
What Others may have a hard time with
I loved the "Pets" series by Darla Phelps but that kind of stories are not for everyone, and the relationship between R and R reminds me of that series.
Rabbit has lived in the penal colony her whole life (25 years) surrounded by earth people, yet she talks very "me Tarzan, you Jane" like. It gives the story a hint of ......can't find the right word....., but it leaves Rory and Rabbit on a not so level playingfield mentally speaking.
The lack of reviews, good or bad, almost made me skip this one, fortunately for me it was only almost.
So read and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
////\\\\Sorry, lots of spoiler alerts////\\\\
Oh My Goodness!! This book was phenomenal. Ok here's why I loved it. First of all, the lead character, Rory moved from a complete homophobe to Rabbit's lover in realistic, believable steps. We saw Rory's inner thoughts and shared her slow, unwilling journey as she began to think with all her brain. By really letting us understand the true depth of Rory's honor code, her respecting, protecting and finally loving Rabbit is real for and not just a PWP (Plot? What plot?) device to rush on to the intimate scenes.
I enjoyed the way Rabbit grew from a damaged, frightened, uneducated, unloved girl with no self respect to a woman who is truly an equal partner for hero Rory. The way Phair consistently used her pidgin language made her even more three dimensional and much less of a caricature. Again, she didn't wake up one day and decide to assert herself. Rabbit naturally evolved and matured as a person with very believable two steps forward and one step back.
Just like the Ash series, with this first read, I was so interested in seeing what would happen next that I will really enjoy my next few readings of Coward so I can spend time appreciating all the minor characters in the book. The plot had me up very late last night and I should have gone to sleep two hours ago but I had to finish the book and write this review. So I think that's the best way to describe how I feel about the plot. Sci-fi was a great way to frame the story, but the plot was so strong it would have worked just as well in about any historical period. Sadly, many authors spend so much time trying to make us readers fall in love with their particular sci-fi cannon that they forget that we just want to enjoy a book, not embrace their sci-fi world because it's sooo fascinating.
Overall this book was incredible. I didn't think I could enjoy this book more than Ash's adventures but I was so glad I was wrong! I'll be buying everything else she's written. Phair, thanks for sharing your talent, craft, hard work and wonderful imagination with all of us lucky readers.
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