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Title: Skip this book
Review: There is, at most, about a hundred pages of story here. The rest is filler and padding designed solely to make you buy the next book. You get to the 52nd chapter and after all that it stops as the action is about to begin. Harrington regulars will recognize familiar hall marks from the latter half of that series. A strong female lead. (Two of them actually.) Smart animals. Equivalent but not equal technology. Corrupt officials back home. Two powerful empires, one of which is (conveniently) significantly more evil and stupid than the other - just so you easily know who the bad guys are. If you really love the authors books and must buy it - buy it cheap. If not go straight to the second in series which begins (as this novel should have) by dumping you straight into the action.
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