Review: Half Share - Further Adventures of Ishmael Wang
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
I originally bought an earlier release of this book and I've since re-read the first books in the series a couple times as the later books came out.I finished the first book in the series and had to immediately start the next one. They're not exciting space operatic thrillers full of space battles and aliens. Instead these are slices of life from a crew of traders. There's really no plot - but that doesn't present a problem when reading. I'm just as sucked into these novels as I would be with a normal space opera.  One of the most brilliant things about Lowell's series is his ability to take the most mundane shipboard tasks and make the writing of them fascinating.  Few authors would be able to pull off this book as successfully has he has.I do like that Ishmael Wang, the protagonist, appears more flawed in this book then in the first. He feels more like a real human this way. However, I didn't give this one 5 stars because Ishmael doesn't always read like an 18yo just starting out in the world - he lacks the naivete of a young man.  At times, he's just too smooth, too suave.