Review: 15-year old Stubborn vs. century old bigotry - who wins?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2013
Book 2 of the David Birkenhead series, The Midshipman, finished pulling me in. Book 1 was good enough for me to spend 99 cents on book 2. I have since read books 3 and 4 and bought the balance for the full set of 7. Sleep, who needs sleep before going into work?In Midshipman, David's  near-adoption into a ruling house activates his loyalty and honor and finds him joining the military as a result. The second book of this series still has the character acting as a youth instead of adult (I really like the series having the character truly mature through both his experiences and just growing up).  And like any freed slave or lower class working above their station in a stratus society, he faces tremendous peer and cultural pressures to return to his proper place. Only his Honor of Promises Made pushes him past the worst of it.While the series is High Space Opera Military genre, the theme is about slavery and overcoming the slavery mindset, both in the individual and in the culture. While some may think that we can never go that way again, the only way to make certain that happens in reminding ourselves and future generations. I find the series again and again touches on things I have learned over the years about cultures which have slavery and the transition times to remove it. A great series.