Review: Great world building
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2013
This book is a novella from the Arcana series, the h is Lisbet Duncan a fighter pilot for the Milky Way galaxy military. She is patroling on the rim when her plane is hit by enemy fire, with barely a few seconds to save her life, she launches an escape pod. The enemy ship a jit'suku fighter demands that she surrender or die when her air is exhausted. All her communications are blocked by the ship so Lisbet decides to become a prisoner of war. She cannot contact her base for help and knows she is alone.Captain Fedroval the leader of the jit'suku ship is shocked to hear the voice of a woman when he hails her pod. Jit'suku do not harm women, it is dishonorable to hurt a women in anyway, he and his men are upset that they could have dishonored themselves without knowing.The focus of this book was on the cultural differences between humans and jit'suku, both sides have preconceived ideas of the practices of the other. Lisbet and Val begin to talk and both are surprised that there is not so much difference as they expect.I really enjoyed this story.