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Title: Skip Book One, The Idle Rich of the Future Are Boring!
Review: This is a book about horse back riding (and racing), fox hunting, and managing a space yacht. It involves the adventures of spoiled rich children, and their eccentric aunt, who doesn't even like them much. We get introduced to Herris Serrano, an ex-captain of the Fleet, starring in the role of nursemaid to her idle rich employers. She also gets enmeshed with the police as an investigator, which doesn't make sense as Fleet officers are not trained detectives.The first half of the book is soul-crushingly boring, and I would have dropped it already if I hadn't gotten the trilogy as one item. The second half follows odious characters too closely, over-emphasizes the setting of 'rich hunting world', and barely scrapes up an ending. I had a hard time relating to the characters, and while later books in the series are better, I'd simply skip book one. Overall, not enough worthwhile to make the time reading pay off.
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