Tanya Huff's Valor's Choice
Huff is pretty hit or miss for me, but this definitely fell on the hit side—it’s a solid example of military sci-fi. I don’t really know much about military stuff, but Huff does a great job of showing the camaraderie between soldiers (especially soldiers of different species), and also showing the tensions between officers and non-officers. The central figure is a staff sergeant who’s assigned to a diplomatic mission under a new lieutenant (who, oops, she had a one-night stand with the night before, lol, but there’s no romance to speak of here), but obviously things are going to go wrong. I really enjoyed the characters and world-building here, and am diving right into book two. A-/B+.
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