Finally an officer - the whole Academy is skipped over. But he ends up on a bad ship, with a bad captain, and has to solve it...and does, of course. Active sexual harassment and rape (offscreen). And a very bad marriage, though he escapes with minimal damage (to either of them). ( )

Story really changed from the first three books in the series but was very satisfying in the end, I'm so glad I found this series, looking forward to the next volume.. ( )

Wow. The enjoyment I've been getting from this series derives almost entirely from the low-conflict, light-hearted nature of the books. Double Share takes that and throws it out the window. My first reaction was positive. This could be something new, something great. Then reality set in.

Rather than the Lois McKendrick, our protaganists' home in the Deep Dark for the past few books, we now move the setting to a new ship, the William Tinker. This ship is gross. It's filthy, smells, everyone is nasty to one another, and, oh yeah, the entire female crew is being constantly raped.

I absolutely hate rape stories, whether in book, TV, or film. They make me want to throw up, and that's not how I enjoy spending my light-hearted reading time. Really, the only way to make it worse is to treat the rape as anything less than horrific. Guess what Nathan Lowell managed to do?

I'm not going to really spoil anything here because this book can't get any more spoiled. In the end, after the dust has settled and things are "resolved", the new female captain (who has witnessed these atrocities happening for years) keeps one of the rapists aboard. The character even manages to explain away what he did by saying "he's a good boy that fell in with a bad crowd". How about we tell that to the women he raped time and time again over the course of YEARS while they had no means of escape except the emptiness of space? How about we go back to the part when we learn that he has murdered women that have tried to fight back or complain?

This book was digsusting. Much more so than the William Tinker. ( )

This book in the series is a very dark departure from the first 3. Ishmael is put in a very bad situation of abuse aboard a new ship after graduating from the space academy. It is his first berth as an officer and he must now deal with a captain and crew that abuses the crew in very dark ways. He must grow and figure out how to deal with the situation. What can he do, how will he survive and help those being abused including himself. A very different story than the first three but I found it still a very good read. Will definitely continue to read the rest of the series. ( )

Great fast read ( )