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Admiral
- Kris Longknife, Book 16
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good. Really, she knew by now that what was too good to be true really, really isn't. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife.
Now Kris is sweating out collecting a fighting force - that won't make her their first target. Now she's trying to figure out how to fight ships identical to hers, that outnumber her four to one or worse. Oh, and she's got to keep the merchant princes in her embassy from making a mess of everything. A whole lot of people are hoping this Longknife can pull a grizzly bear out of her hat. A whole lot of other Iteeche are hoping the bear takes off her arm.
This continuation of the Longknife Saga is 112,000 words of battle, intrigue, and assassinations including a few wrong turns on Kris's part. Enjoy!
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- cabby
- 03-02-23
A great new direction
The saga o ti uez with a different Kris evolving.
Will she get any praise for her efforts to defend the empire ?
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- James
- 14-03-18
Ok
Another solid Longknife book, although Dina seems to have forgotten how to pronounce nautical terms.
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- Robert
- 06-04-23
Culturally offensive crap
Really, that’s what this book is.
Kris Longknife encounters a 10,000 year old Empire that ‘needs her help’ (this alone is… just awful) and is ‘forced’ to save it by throwing her weight around, smashing through even friendly aliens sense of culture and proper manners… and generally being a more highly unpleasant bully than Admiral Perry was to Japan. She’s not quite at the stage of starting the Opium Wars, but it’s pretty bad.
As I have said in many previous reviews of later books - what worked for a Longknife and was interesting when she was junior comes across as childish, insensitive and selfish bullying in an adult.
The low point is when, after first insulting, then bowing to her own Merchants and Diplomats (who she considers the lowest form of life, as is common in these books, anyone who disagrees with Kris is a goon) she gives them all of her palace. To offset this, she demands she alone be allowed to break a tradition as old as time that no landers be allowed over the Imperial City, to land 75,000 tonnes of Smartmetal in an unpowered lander. When forbidden from doing this - for pretty obvious reasons - she decides she will pilot it down and her kids will be below it. As expected, people try to crash it to kill her, maybe the emperor, and to promote their civil war. Nothing unexpected happens, and yet she loses her temper and proceeds to rampage throughout the capital demanding people cooperate with her *or else*.
… and somehow no one is killed, despite the Iteeche killing people for using the wrong pronouns when speaking between castes.
I get it - I want to see the Iteeche Empire and I want her to explore it. But she doesn’t explore it - she encounters it, hates it (and that’s understandable, it’s pretty arcane and hateful in places) and then proceeds to preach how superior the human mono-culture is (which is also not nearly as mono as she claims) due to her appalling lack of historical knowledge and apparent disregard for… oh, 3/4 of human cultures. The Iteeche are Shogunate era Japan, I get that, but the fact they fight with human-designed ships they do not understand, rather than having actually *effective* alien designs is just a starting point for how… frustrating this book is in its insistent, unrelenting attitude that a pseudo America/UK social approach is superior to all others, technologically and socially.
I had hoped for so much more. I’m not sure I will continue to the next book, although I bought it long ago, I distinctly recall having stopped at this one.
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