Different SciFi more life on a starship.

I liked it no action but it's a person building a career on a ship (which could just as easily been a age of sail setting). mostly it's about the personalities and habits of living there onboard. No blasters fights the action was trade based still interesting and enjoyable I will read the next one.

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Amazing story, love the traders tails.

I would highly recommend getting all the books for the complete journey of this guy coming into his own with ups and downs.

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Excellent story

This was a really good story in that it wasn't all explosive all explosions and fighting. The characters way relatable I'm looking forward to the next book Half Share

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Space hauling Adventure.

Best space adventure I have read in years. very well told life of a green space noob. Ishmael Wong The Legend. I knew you when..

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Shouldn't be a stand alone book.

I've read the first two books so far and really enjoyed the content, but they feel like nothing has happened. No tension. No development through struggle. All just good luck and positive events falling in the lap of the main character. If these two books are anything to go by, I'd say the author wouldn't know a Heroes Journey if it walked up and bit him on the face.

Also, they beef up the length of the audio book by including 50 mins of the next book as a preview. It's barely worth using my credits on.

Might be good if maybe the first three books were combined (I guess), but I won't be reading the 3rd book or any others because it's just too bleh.

Sorry to the author. Good premise. Zero story.

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No conflict occurs

This book was okay, but there was no conflict at all. The protagonist, Ishmael, has to join a ship after his mother’s death and throws himself into learning everything he can about all of the jobs on board in the hopes of discovering what he wants to specialise in. He is a total Mary Sue - good at everything he does, impresses captain and crew at every turn, and helps his friend and the entire crew build up a lucrative trading scheme. That’s literally all that happens. There are no set-backs, no personnel conflict with crew or on stations, no disaster that puts Ishmael’s new knowledge and skills to the test. There’s LOTS of detail about what goods are worth and their price to space ratio. I listened to an hour of the next book that previewed at the and and it seemed like more of the same. It wasn’t badly written prose-wise, but since NOTHING happens, I found it pretty meh. I don’t think I’ll be picking up the second book in this series.

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