Duty Bound: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #3

By Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

"Pilot of Korval" finds Er Thom yos'Galan and Daav yos'Phelium, raised together as brothers, separated and beginning to learn their adult roles of trader and scout.

In "Breath's Duty," a grown-up Daav must undertake a painful duty of friendship -- find his best friend's ship, which was lost in the aftermath of a space battle, and return it, if he can, to Scout Headquarters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pinbeam Books
• Release date: Jul 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781935224518

Sharon Lee

Sharon Lee has worked with children of various ages and backgrounds, including a preschool, a local city youth bureau, and both junior and senior high youth groups. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and also in psychology. Sharon cares about people and wildlife. She has been an advocate in the fight against human trafficking and a help to stray and feral animals in need.

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Reviews for Duty Bound

[leslie398 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed these 2 short stories very much but I am glad that I had previously read all the novels first.

[liscarey · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Again, two stories.

Pilot of Korval has the young Er Thom yos'Galan and Daav yos'Phelium, raised together, separated for the first time, as they each train as pilots and for their adult careers, Daav as a Scout, and Er Thom as a future ship's captain and Master Trader. For Er Thom, it leads to a test of both his commitment to his crewmates, and his judgment in pursuit of that. It's also a tricky test of his self-control, discipline, and relationship with his birth mother.

Breath's Duty gives us the adult Daav, long tucked away on Delgado, taking Ride the Luck into the middle of a battle to rescue old friend and ally Cronak, and his first, deadly encounter with the Department of the Interior. Along the way, he discovers he's maybe been insufficiently attentive to both what's happening on Liaden, and of who his son Val Con is growing up to be.

This stories both illuminate important characters in the Liaden universe. For Daav on Delgado, there were a couple of what seemed like possibly false notes, but not once he was off planet.

Overall, thoroughly enjoyable.

I bought this book.