Tag Archives: Endless Lust perfume

Conflict of Honors – Chapter 50

Shipyear 65
Tripday 287
Third Shift
16.00 hours

In which Shan and Priscilla consider the future.

I haven’t enjoyed re-reading Conflict of Honors quite so very much as I did some of the earlier novels in the re-read, but I think a large part of that may be that I’ve re-read it so many times already; the pleasure it gives me now comes from familiarity rather than the joy of discovery, which can be a bit of a problem when I’m using discovery to power the blog entries. There’s also the way it’s divided into so many little chapters, which can get a bit wearing at one chapter per day.


Tomorrow is the novella “Changeling”, and then we return to a distant, hitherto briefly-glimpsed part of the universe for the novel Fledgling.

Conflict of Honors – Chapter 27

Shipyear 65
Tripday 155
Second Shift
6.00 hours

In which Sav Rid Olanek makes a countermove.

Just one of those details one notices: Near the beginning of the chapter, Priscilla wishes she might be told that she’d done something well, rather than the second mate’s understated “okay”. By the end of her chapter, she’s got her wish, although (as is so often the case with wishes) in circumstances that she might happily have foregone if given the choice.

One wonders precisely what instructions the mercenaries were given that their captain summarized as “he wanted you out of the race real bad”. I’d be inclined to assume that meant shoot-to-kill, but we were told earlier that death is not usually considered an appropriate way to achieve Balance, and I don’t think Sav Rid’s that far gone yet. Is he?

Conflict of Honors – Chapter 16

Shipyear 65
Tripday 143
Second Shift
6.00 hours

In which Priscilla receives an apology.

It would appear that Shan did, in fact, have business with the famous Herr Sasoni; I’d been half-inclined to suspect him of throwing that in to achieve an effect on the magistrate, for all that we’ve been assured that it’s not like him to lie. Even so, I still suspect that the nature of the transaction was not what he allowed the magistrate to assume.

(Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I hope it wasn’t, given the implied nature of the assumed transaction and the fact that, like Rusty, I read an obvious implication in the quality of Shan’s apology to Priscilla.)

Conflict of Honors – Chapter 9

Shipyear 65
Tripday 135
Second Shift
9.30 hours

In which a game of ping pong results in several discoveries.

Another chapter where I’m pretty sure I’d have more to say if I was reading for the first time, instead of (a) re-reading and (b) familiar with what the authors have had to say about the sexual orientations of their characters.

Although, having said that, I can’t remember now whether I was particularly surprised when I did read this chapter for the first time. If I wasn’t, it probably owed something to how matter-of-factly the sequence of events is told; there’s no attempt to make a big deal about where it goes, and I for one appreciate that.

Conflict of Honors – Chapter 7

Shipyear 65
Tripday 131
First Shift
1.30 hours

In which Priscilla meets more of the crew.

Priscilla meets two of her crewmates-to-be, radio tech Rusty and librarian Lina, and begins to get from them the idea that Dutiful Passage is not much like Daxflan.

Which may go some way toward explaining the tests she’d been puzzling over. There’s a particular community spirit on Dutiful Passage, so a prospective crewmember needs to be a temperamental match as well as being good at her job.

I do wonder how quickly Shan is going through cabin boys, if he’s had four since he took over as captain — according to the timeline, that was less than a year ago.