Finder Chronicles, #2. Really really enjoyed this one, just like the book one. Now on to book three!!
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"...he took some small pride that he was keeping the bees in check, and a smug satisfaction that they had to go look up the "Steward of Gondor" before knowing that was a lie too.
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"Hey, Transit, I don't suppose you can tell me where the bad guys are?"
"Wouldn't that be cheating?"
Finder Chronicles, #1. Repo man in space? Well, it's more than that! I liked it very much. Humor helps, some snappy patter, too. I've started book two already!
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She was short even among Cernee natives, but built like a tank, if tanks were constructed entirely of muscle and disapproval.
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..."and because they've probably drawn your sorry ass--" "We drew all of him," the Shielder said, offended.
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The Shielder rolled her eyes. "This is why we don't like talking to you people," she said.
(Finder Chronicles, #4). Fergus finds himself shipwrecked on a planet in an improbably place. Lots of nifty dialogue!
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"I can see why you're a man with a lot of very committed enemies. Well done..."
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"Ah tauld ye ah didnae sneak any raisins on board, Ignatio, ye pest!"
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"Hey!" Len protested. "You disrespectin' my groats?"
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"Poof, like magic?"
"Well, sufficiently advanced technology, anyway..."
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"We do not annihilate. We garden,"[...]. "Take care that you have not become like weeds."
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"Fine," he said at last. "I'm going to need some things. And when it fails spectacularly and I die in a horrible, excruciating, messy way, it'll all be on your heads."
"That's the spirit," [...] said, and punched him on the shoulder in encouragement.