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jaceyTanya Huff - Valor's Trial
Daw, 2008
Continuing on from events in 'The Heart of Valor' in this book Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr, rough, tough marine, is sent into battle with her unit, only to be pinned down by artillery fire. After a blinding flash she wakes up in an underground prison camp with no apparent guards except for the formidable nature of the place itself and the sedative drug in the only available food.
Torin’s lover Craig Ryder, a civilian salvage operator, is still trying to discover the truth of Torin's reported death and together with the recurring pain-in-Torin's-ass fur-covered, single-minded reporter, Presit, so he heads out for he last known position looking for closure - or maybe clues. Whilst officially dead Torin takes apart a bully and his thugs, restores military discipline in the prison camp and makes an escape attempt, eventually joining with a group of the Others who are also making a bid for freedom.
At the end of the book the events wrap up the larger story ark begun in the first book, revealing truths that should end the ongoing war of attrition between the Confederation and the Others, and Craig and Torin are reunited. This could be the last Valor book - or it could be just a halfway point and a change of perspective. The Others are no longer the bad guys, and the real bad guys, the plastic aliens from 'Big Yellow', introduced very early on in the story ark, are still out there.
Daw, 2008
Continuing on from events in 'The Heart of Valor' in this book Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr, rough, tough marine, is sent into battle with her unit, only to be pinned down by artillery fire. After a blinding flash she wakes up in an underground prison camp with no apparent guards except for the formidable nature of the place itself and the sedative drug in the only available food.
Torin’s lover Craig Ryder, a civilian salvage operator, is still trying to discover the truth of Torin's reported death and together with the recurring pain-in-Torin's-ass fur-covered, single-minded reporter, Presit, so he heads out for he last known position looking for closure - or maybe clues. Whilst officially dead Torin takes apart a bully and his thugs, restores military discipline in the prison camp and makes an escape attempt, eventually joining with a group of the Others who are also making a bid for freedom.
At the end of the book the events wrap up the larger story ark begun in the first book, revealing truths that should end the ongoing war of attrition between the Confederation and the Others, and Craig and Torin are reunited. This could be the last Valor book - or it could be just a halfway point and a change of perspective. The Others are no longer the bad guys, and the real bad guys, the plastic aliens from 'Big Yellow', introduced very early on in the story ark, are still out there.
