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Rookie Privateer

Privateer Tales, Book 1

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Rookie Privateer

Written by: Jamie McFarlane
Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
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When you are old enough to finally become an Earth Mars citizen, everything should be perfect. Right? Not for Liam Hoffen. He's stuck on a mining asteroid called Colony 40, helping his father work a claim that is never going to pay out. His best friend, Nick James is set for life in James' Rental business and Liam just discovered that the girl he's known forever thinks he's pretty great and now she's leaving for the Mars Naval Academy.

Liam dreams of sailing the stars. Whenever he gets the chance, he jets into space and floats, wishing to be free of the asteroid that has claimed him. What he doesn't realize is that fate is about to change everything.

Sometimes you have to lose parts of yourself to gain the stars, and Liam discovers that while it isn't easy to literally lose parts of yourself to the pirates who attacked your home, gaining the stars is worth everything.

He and Nick are about to find out what the real world has to offer and they end up meeting exciting people along the way.

©2014, 2015 James A. Greenwood (P)2016 James A. Greenwood
Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Space Pirate Mars Solar System

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It’s YA

I expected something more and not a YA novel. You have to truly suspend your scepticism to think these 2 teenagers could transform overnight.

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More of a young adult novel

Of course as with all books aimed at young adults the main character is thrust into a situation beyond their control. But they handle it with aplomb. The main character grows up a minor on a asteroid outpost. they're attacked by Pirates they end up capturing the ship and end up becoming privateers.

The plot is relatively straightforward not a lot of twists and turns nothing unexpected. The characters are relatively two-dimensional. Very little nuance. while the narrator does a competent job his voice sounds too old for the voice of the characters given that the characters are supposed to be late teens and the story is narrated by one of them.

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