Ratings - completed series:
#1 Quarter Share: ★★★★★
#2 Half Share: ★★★★★
#3 Full Share: ★★★★☆
#4 Double Share: ★★★★☆
#5 Captain's Share (this book): ★★★★☆
#6 Owner's Share: ★★★★☆

1) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

2) Genre: Science Fiction

3) Synopsis: Finally Ishmael has made Captain. The only problem he was assigned to the worst ship in the fleet. Can Ishmael do it again?

4) Feelings: Think I listened to this book all in one day. Helps having a desk job where I can just push play and listen. Ishmael is growing up but things haven't quite gone how he expected. Good to see him struggle with some aspects of his life. Life never goes just how you plan.

5) Final recommendation: Ishmael is interesting to follow and this story is more of the same. Even Captain's have troubles.

Ryan James Burt
Husband, Father, and Writer
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2011 06-14 This is the fifth book in the Trader Tales. I like these books a lot. I must warn you that only the first two books are available in print. I listened to these in the podia book format.

I am not exactly sure why these are so appealing to me. I do really like them though. In this book Ishmael Wong becomes Captain. I have to admit at the beginning I was confused a bit. I had wondered if I missed a book. Something like 10 years has passed. It took me a little bit to get used to the idea.

I also struggled with the ending of this book. I wasn't even sure it was over. You would think a book that I struggled with the beginning and the end would get a bad review. But it doesn't. I liked it. I have already started on number 6.

It's been years since I read this book, but I remember it ruined an otherwise great series for me. It skipped years ahead in the protagonist's life to find him in a dead-end career and with a loveless marriage. Unless time-travel was involved, that felt like a betrayal of the character and thus I couldn't continue reading.

Good

Good competent writing about good competent people. Low on excitement, and that’s just fine. Character growth just a bit faster than realistic is only drawback.

Brilliant. Very sad.

Like the other book in the series, Captain's Share is very likeable and hard to put down. I loved the characters, and the futuristic view, that was not so very farfetched. If you like a book with strong characters, and a unique time period, these books are for you.

Better than the last book, but still too far from the original for me to recapture my love for the series.

All reviews say to pretend the next, and final, book doesn't exist, so I'm going to do that.