Six months in the Deep Dark.
Four different women.
One man discovers what it means to be a spacer.
It’s a time of change on the Lois McKendrick. Sarah Krugg joins the crew and Ishmael Wang moves to Environmental. After getting accustomed to life aboard a solar clipper, Ishmael must learn a whole new set of skills, face his own fears and doubts, and try to balance love and loss in the depths of … loss in the depths of space.
Both Ishmael and Sarah must learn to live by the mantra, “Trust Lois.” For Sarah, there is the hope of escaping a horrifying past. For Ishmael, he must discover what type of man he wants to become and learn his choices have consequences.
Return with the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, and set sail in the next installment of the Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. All your favorites return: Ish, Pip, Cookie, Brill, Diane, and Big Bad Bev. You might even discover some new friends as you travel among the stars.
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It’s part of an extended coming of age story set in the life of an interstellar merchant marine. Very original, yet truly fun.
This is the second of a series and while you could start with this book I recommend to start with the first in the series (Quarter Share) to follow the full flow of the main characters development.
This is a wonderfully told coming of age tale that takes place a few hundred years in the future. This is SciFi lite – meaning it takes place in the future but does not heavily lean on future technology. Readers who normally are a bit turned off by SciFi will enjoy this tale.
This is the first series in my list of Go-To Books. I loved it on my first read, now when I finish a series by a different author and have that “Nothing looks good” problem, I reread this series before selecting a different author. Ishmael, the main character, is a likeable guy who faces problems a bit differently from everyone else. He wasn’t born a spacer, so he doesn’t know how things are supposed to be done. It gives him a step up on everyone else who is stuck in, “that’s not how we do it”. His stories are entertaining and sometime funny. Nathan Lowell is my favorite author.
Read Quarter Share and jumped right into Half Share. Just could not put it down and the read flew right by. This man has a talent for making a story come alive.
Although I am a huge fan of Nathan’s Tanyth Fairport Series, I am even more ridiculously a fan of the Solar Clipper series. I was introduced to them via John Ward, the great collector of interesting people, who suggested the Quarter Share podcast to me. A couple years later, and not only have I thoroughly enjoyed devouring the entire series on a regular basis, but I’ve also roped my family into the fandom as well. I’m pretty sure my mother has listened to the first six books at least a score of times. I’m not kidding. My children have listened in rapt attention to Quarter Share at least five or six times. We use them as road trip entertainment. They’re published in series of three, each trilogy focusing on a different phase of Ishmael Horatio Wang’s life.
Half Share is Ish’s sexual awakening. No, he wasn’t a virgin when this book begins, but he really turns that aspect of his life on for this book. Therefore, I don’t let my kids listen to this one. However, it is by far one of my favorite books in the series because this is when the Shaman aspect of Ish’s nature is also awakened. Yes, I actually keep track of the whelkies. The companion novel South Coast should be read after this one.
To read my review on every book in the series, check out my full review at adrielwiggins.com/solar-clipper.
L NOT ONLY ENJOYED IT i CAN’T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT ONE