A Confederation of Valor (omnibus)

by Tanya Huff

Book Overview

In Valor's Choice , Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr and her crew get yanked from a well-deserved shore leave in order to participate in an "easy" mission. They are to act as an honor guard for a diplomatic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756403995
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: DAW
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.4" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

The First Tow Books Together

I loved these books. I have to just scratch my head at the reviwers who didn't know that this book wasn't fresh material. It's kind of obvious that the words "omnibus edition" suggest a reprint of a past edition. Oh well. Highly recomended if you haven't started the series yet and want to get the first two books in one. Just remember, it's not new stuff, just a new package.

Unfair - this book deserves a better rating!

I'm sorry for all those who purchased this book unaware that it was an omnibus edition, but their reviews have given it an unfairly low rating. I'd never read any of Tanya Huff's work before and was very, very happy to find it. Great stories, dialogue and humor. Highly recommended, and I can't wait for the next one to come out this summer.

Believable space marines

For some reason lately, I've been on a military SF kick. I loved the McCaffrey/Moon "Sassinak" series, Moon's "Heris Serrano", and Weber's Honor Harrington series. When I read the desciption of this one, it sounded right up my alley and my impression was correct. Both stories combined enough characters to care about and believe in with outstanding military action. I've really enjoyed Huff's other, more fantasy and horror oriented books, and now she has me hooked on this new series. For those who have given the book a bad review because they felt cheated that it was not made more apparent that this was an omnibus addition, I can sympathize, but feel that it is unfair to the author. The marketing is not something that the author controls. To keep someone from reading a good story because they look at the ratings and see them as not that high is hardly fair when one's disappointment is not with the story itself. If you enjoy good military SF with stong female characters, interesting alien species, realistic land and space maneuvers, and consistant technology, please read this book.

A Fair Review

First, I understand that some people were disappointed to unexpectedly discover that this was an omnibus edition. Not making users aware of this was clearly a mistake, but not one that the Author should be punished for, since Ms. Huff doesn't have any control over this. Hence, I think the low reviews provided by a few other users are unfair and unwarranted. Second, I never had the books in their previous edition, so I was delighted to get two books for one price. I had never actually read anything by the author before, so I was pleased to discover a set of military adventures mixed with some pretty decent humor. All in all, a pretty decent read, and a nice price for the combined edition.

I loved it even though I knew

I have to say that I knew when I pre-ordered that this would only be a collection of the first two books (though I will admit when I first saw the title a thrill of joy ran up my spine), but I still enjoyed it. For one, I lent my first copy of Valor's Choice to a friend years ago and haven't seen hide nor hair of it since and two, I thought if I contributed to a possitive response to a re-print to the first two books it would prompt interest in publishing a third. I've had the impression from author interviews that sequals occasionally go unwritten if the publishers feel there is no interest from the fan base and I would dearly love a sequal to this most hilarious and well done work of Sci-Fi. In the sea of slop I've been wadeing through lately, I need a life preserver thrown my way from time to time.