Freedom's Choice

If you are familiar with the Dragon Rider series, then you will probably like this series too. This book is more in line with the stories written with Mercedies Lackey (Planet Pirates) and takes a look at an assortment of aliens and humans who are captured, dumped on a planet, and how they survive in a hostile universe. There is the underlying thread that no matter what happens, we will always survive which makes the series a riveting read, how do they get out of this next scrape. What made this series compelling for me was that the Catteni are also slaves as much as anyone else is in the series. What do you do when your bad guys are a sympathetic group of folks. There is also the idea of change, that if you get thrown into change, over time you learn to cope with the situation and eventually learn to adapt to what is happening around you. The strong hero heroine team in the book, with Worry and others made this a very fun read.

I was hooked immediately when I bought the audio version of Freedom's Landing, the first in the series. But you should read all three books one right after the other so the story flows better. (I hate it when a book ends suddenly and leaves you hanging until the next publication is available). This next book in the series picks up right where Freedom's Landing left off. Freedom's Choice has the same action as the first book. You find yourself reading in anticipation the more the "dropped" discover about the original owners of Botany. Looking forward to listening to the third installation of the Freedom's Series (Freedom's Challenge) because, though I choose to read Freedom's Choice in the written form, I think the audio version helps creates a more interesting vision.

I've been reading the other reviews, particulary the ones against this book, and it seems a few people haven't gotten it. What is so wrong about people who know that they have a job to do, and do it? Plus the remarks about there not being enough breast beating over there lost loved ones is a crock! These people by and large have already spent time on another world, Barevi, and are most likely over the first rush of grief. As for the single women being asked to bear kids for the colony Ms. Mccaffrey put forth the idea that the women didn't have to keep it after it was born, so the femminists can calm down. Sorry if I am offending anyone, but when you have a relativly small gene pool you do your best to expand it. Ms. Mccaffrey did a wonderful job of portraying humans rising above the petty predujices that so many of us seem to hug tight to our chests. I can't wait to see what she does with the next one!

I loved freedom's choice and anxiously awaiting the next book in this series. read it all in one day. that says something about it. not just for the young as i'm 61 and still haven't lost my imagination anymore than the author. a book for all ages. can see where people when they think they have no hope and have lost everything and must start again, especially when that is the only choice and you look to help everyone else survive. that is what makes humans survivors. that is what made the prisoners in concentration camps survive. thanks anne for a delightful afternoon. hope to read the next one soon.

If you haven't read Freedom's Landing, you can still get into this thrilling novel of forced colonization. Kris Bjornsen and Emassi Zainal battle through tough Catteni, their romance and the procreation of a child. & lt;P & gt; At the end of the book you are left with many unanswered questions and anxious to see what happens. I hope that EVERYONE gets a chance to read this series. I have a feeling that it will live on just like the Dragonriders of Pern