A Confederation of Valor ~Tanya Huff
–published 2006
–DAW Books
–619 pages
An omnibus edition featuring:
Valor’s Choice
–published 2000
–282 pages
–4.25/5 stars
The Better Part of Valor
–published 2002
–308 pages
–4/5 stars
Tough-as-nails Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is the heroine of the Valor series, written by author Tanya Huff. The recently released fifth book in this series, The Truth of Valor, caught my eye the other day on a gift-hunting expedition to Barnes and Noble. “Military Science Fiction” is a sub-genre of science fiction that I avoided, though not with forethought, for most of my reading life. That all changed a few years ago when John Scalzi became a (geek) household name with his much lauded Old Man’s War series. That series not only rekindled that old feeling I used to get from reading science fiction as a kid, it also made me cognizant of many classic and contemporary military science fiction books that my eyes used to pass quickly over when perusing bookstore shelves, including one of the most well known, Robert A. Heinlein’s award-winning novel, Starship Troopers. I read Starship Troopers earlier this year and was very impressed by it. As I gazed at the covers for Huff’s Valor series I was struck with a desire to step back into the kind of science fictional universe that I enjoyed in both Heinlein’s and Scalzi’s novels.
Without anything to go on other than a hunch, I decided to take advantage of the two-for-one nature of A Confederation of Valor.
Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down.
