The Adventures of Crazy Liddy

Whenever I read a space opera or an action book, I always need to preface it with the statement that I generally don't like these types of books, although I am starting to appreciate them more. I do much better watching a movie of this sub-genre than reading it. Fortunately, this book was short enough that it kept my attention and I could actually appreciate that it was a rather fun action-adventure novel. Liddy is a smuggler. Usually extremely cautious, she has one slip and is sent to a prison planet for twenty years. After three years, the governor asks her to participate in a rescue mission to find her missing-in-action son in exchange for a full pardon. Guess who's on the mission: Agent Reed who busted her in the first place. Together with a crusty pilot and a couple of uber-religious telepathic engineer aliens, they must travel to an enemy solar system and fight ugly blue aliens to find the governor's son and win Liddy her freedom. Unfortunately, amid all this fun, I had some issues that made reading the book a less than pleasant experience.

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