Nathan Lowell: Half Share (2010, Ridan Publishing)
Published Dec. 20, 2010 by Ridan Publishing.
Six months in the Deep Dark. Four different women. One man discovers what it means to be a spacer.
It's a time of change on the Lois McKendrick. Sarah Krugg joins the crew and Ishmael Wang moves to Environmental. After getting accustomed to life aboard a solar clipper, Ishmael must learn a whole new set of skills, face his own fears and doubts, and try to balance love and loss in the depths of space.
Both Ishmael and Sarah must learn to live by the mantra, "Trust Lois." For Sarah, there is the hope of escaping a horrifying past. For Ishmael, he must discover what type of man he wants to become and learn his choices have consequences.
Return with the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, and set sail in the next installment of the Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. All your favorites return: …
Six months in the Deep Dark. Four different women. One man discovers what it means to be a spacer.
It's a time of change on the Lois McKendrick. Sarah Krugg joins the crew and Ishmael Wang moves to Environmental. After getting accustomed to life aboard a solar clipper, Ishmael must learn a whole new set of skills, face his own fears and doubts, and try to balance love and loss in the depths of space.
Both Ishmael and Sarah must learn to live by the mantra, "Trust Lois." For Sarah, there is the hope of escaping a horrifying past. For Ishmael, he must discover what type of man he wants to become and learn his choices have consequences.
Return with the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, and set sail in the next installment of the Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. All your favorites return: Ish, Pip, Cookie, Brill, Diane, and Big Bad Bev. You might even discover some new friends as you travel among the stars.
This one I'm usually hearing quite a bit of bad things about, since it does lean into some cringe, but it makes sense being the main character that there is, I still have to say I really like this one :)
Halfway through the book, it turns out the main character is suddenly so intensely attractive to literally every woman he sees, and is an awesome pickup artist, out of nowhere. DNF, really disappointing
I Really enjoyed the book this time as well, it's something about the comraderie and so that just feels so good in these books :)
I didn't tune in for Space Casanova. Gonna call this one a miss and continue the series, thankful that the Louis is "not that kind of ship".
I liked the first book quite a bit, but this one has some issues. It's OK right up to where the protagonist changes departments (which is fairly early in the book) at which point it becomes "the tale of how Marty Stu discovers he has a magic butt and acquires a platonic harem."
At one point in the story, he literally changes the lives of at least three women simply by stripping to his briefs in front of them.
It's a challenge to write fiction in which there isn't a clearly defined antagonist or crisis for the protagonist to overcome, and still make it interesting. The author pulled it off in the first volume, but largely fails in this one.
I might check out the next book in the series, but this one was disappointing enough that I might not.
