To Fire Called A Seeker Tale From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper Book 2 eBook Nathan Lowell
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A dead ship returns to the Deep Dark with a live crew.
Captain Ishmael Wang finally gets the Chernyakova out of the yard and embarks on a voyage into the Toe-Holds where the Confederated Planets Joint Committee on Trade has no authority. Where the law is whatever you say it is as long as you can enforce it.
Where he learns that some will do anything to hide their secrets and everybody has a secret.
To Fire Called A Seeker Tale From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper Book 2 eBook Nathan Lowell
I am a big fan of "The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper" Series, I've read all of them and the short stories. Prior to this I've only been disappointed in one character issue. In 'Double Share', the main characters and crew basically forgave and forgot that one of the antagonists from the story had at one point in time sexually assaulted, physically assaulted or intimidated everyone but the first officer and captain. This was just not going to be the case given the development of each of the players and the way the story played out.It is along this same idea that the author mangles an established character to change the direction of a story. We are supposed to believe that one of the characters brought in from previous books is suddenly going to turn from trusted friend into a pathological liar and everyone is going to rewrite history by saying that they knew he was this way all along. This really kinda soured the book for me. Up to this point the books have all had steady and consistent character development.
The action and overall story are good and really fit the narrative to date. There are many parts that will have you eagerly turning pages and feeling sad that you've read too fast at the end because you wish it would have lasted longer. If you love the series, this is a must read but it will probably not be anyone's favorite by a long shot.
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To Fire Called A Seeker Tale From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper Book 2 eBook Nathan Lowell Reviews
I was really enjoying this book and then all of a sudden It's almost 2 months later, a couple questions get vaguely answered, and then the book ends. What?!?
When I read a book, I've come to expect a certain level of resolution / satisfaction at the end of it. The ending of To Fire Called completely failed to live up to this standard, leaving me unhappy and frustrated with it. Not recommended.
I greatly enjoyed the original clippers tale books. Watching Ishmael's growth from outsider to high level spacer was both interesting and fun. But at this point I don't understand why Lowell is even continuing this series. The Ishmael of th seekers tale is basically a faceless narrator. He has no real personality, he makes no decisions and adds nothing to the world around him and he doesn't even seem to have a job to do. In To Fire Called he even states that is job is to look calm and stay out of everyone else's way. That sums the last two books up perfectly. The character of Pip has done an abrupt about face and no one else particularly stands out.
About two thirds of the way through the book it appears that something resembling a plot might finally happen. Without giving away too much, I was excited at the reintroduction of one of my favorite characters from the first couple books. I thought the author might even use said character to pull Ishmael out of his funk and breathe some life back into him. Instead we got a brief coincidental communication and a married character who "has probably changed." The climax of the book was about a page, followed by what seemed to be a lead in to next the book, and then a chapter with a time skip in which were told everything was resolved off stage. Utterly disappointing.
For a novel I have been anticipating for over a year, To Fire Called turned out to be a disappointing chapter in the continuing tales of Captain Ishmael Wang. The Solar Clipper books at their best are about life aboard interstellar freighters, or "Solar Clippers" as they are called by author Nathan Lowell. They have seen Ishmael Wang mature from a teenager orphaned by the death of his mother, to a fully mature man of wealth and fame. Unlike most space opera they have been mostly free of gratuitous violence; and sexual content, while present, is not overindulged in either. What has remained are the day-to-day workings of interstellar freight transport, how the crew lives and works, what they eat, and mostly how they interact one with another. This formula worked for five novels, which proved increasingly popular with readers. With the sixth novel author Lowell decided to introduce elements of the thriller into his series, either through boredom, a desire to to expand his craft as a writer, or an unwillingness to write to a formula, even if that formula had proven successful. Thus, beginning with the book Owner's Share, a great deal of deceit and skulduggery entered the Solar Clipper universe, and the book ended with a virtual bloodbath. Since that time beloved characters from the earlier books have been re-imagined by Lowell at best as having hidden motives and at worst, as with Philip "Pip" Carstairs, being revealed as pathological liars.
Which brings me to the just-released newest entry in the series, To Fire Called. The book opens with the Solar Clipper Chernyakova, captained by Ishmael, coming out of an extended period of repair after having languished for years of neglect. Ishmael is ostensibly on the hunt for the man who killed his lover Greta, and who escaped into "Toe-Hold" space, which is described as both ignored backwater areas of space and at the same time an underground economy of its own - - very similar, in fact, to the Firefly universe of the TV series. Things are far more complicated than a simple revenge tale, and in fact the hunt for the killer is never really part of the plot of To Fire Called. There are both mystery and thriller elements present as Ishmael, guided by the duplicitous Pip, is introduced to Toe-Hold space and attempts to both make a profit hauling freight, and discover more about the history of his ship, the Chernyakova.
Less attention is paid to day-to-day existence of the various spacers on the ship, and in fact there is so much skulduggery at work that at least two (or is it three, I can't recall - - or care) of the crew are revealed to be government agents. Ishmael's fundamental role as a subservient beta male to various strong women is again reinforced in To Fire Called, with his first mate and his chief engineer, both older women, browbeating and berating him at various times - - presumably he'll gift them with Whelkies to reward them for this. The major plot point - - spacers held in captivity if not outright slavery - - seems lifted from Lowell's other series, the fantasies featuring Tanyth Fairport, in which kidnapped sailors mine gold as slaves.
What's mostly missing amongst all of the deception and double-dealing are the little scenes, the descriptions of food made with strange ingredients - - banapods, darberries, beefalo - - that made the first five books so enchanting. There's a few good scenes as Ismael goes shopping for décor for his captain's cabin, as well as finally finding another tailor with the skill to dress him properly. A few recurring characters make re-appearances. But there are too few of these scenes and too many of trying to wring the truth out of the liar Pip, who is less appealing in this outing than in earlier books, or the minutiae of ship handling as the Chernyakova attempts to avoid destruction in a hostile star system.
I am a big fan of "The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper" Series, I've read all of them and the short stories. Prior to this I've only been disappointed in one character issue. In 'Double Share', the main characters and crew basically forgave and forgot that one of the antagonists from the story had at one point in time sexually assaulted, physically assaulted or intimidated everyone but the first officer and captain. This was just not going to be the case given the development of each of the players and the way the story played out.
It is along this same idea that the author mangles an established character to change the direction of a story. We are supposed to believe that one of the characters brought in from previous books is suddenly going to turn from trusted friend into a pathological liar and everyone is going to rewrite history by saying that they knew he was this way all along. This really kinda soured the book for me. Up to this point the books have all had steady and consistent character development.
The action and overall story are good and really fit the narrative to date. There are many parts that will have you eagerly turning pages and feeling sad that you've read too fast at the end because you wish it would have lasted longer. If you love the series, this is a must read but it will probably not be anyone's favorite by a long shot.
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