Captain's Share

Better than the last book, but still too far from the original for me to recapture my love for the series.

All reviews say to pretend the next, and final, book doesn't exist, so I'm going to do that.

I don't know how this series just keeps getting better but it does. I'm sad my adventure with Ish is almost over.

With the exception of the abrupt ending, this is my favorite Trader's Tale so far.

I made a comment on an earlier book in this series that Horatio tended to not make mistakes. It appears that I may have been mistaken in that pronouncement, because he makes some rather serious ones in this volume. He also, as the title implies, becomes captain of his own ship, and has to try to whip them into the kind of shape he's come to expect of a ship he works on.

The story was interesting as a coda to the Share series. Not something for someone who's never read another Lowell book, but rewarding for someone who's worked their way through the entire series.

It was also interesting to do some mental calculations while listening to the audiobook of this and realizing that Captain Wang is around my age at the time of this book. I'm not one to second-guess my life choices too often, but I am definitely not a starship captain yet!