Not what I was looking for but I’m glad I found it.

While on a search for books that feel like Joss Whedon’s Firefly I came across Quarter Share. On the surface there are similarities but Quarter Share doesn’t feel like Firefly. As it turns out, that’s totally okay. Quarter Share is its own thing. It’s oddly entertaining and engaging while seemingly entirely without a plot. Hmm. I might be wrong about that. You see, I’ve been on a military sci-fi kick for a while so subtlety hasn’t been part of my diet of late. Anyway, I can’t explain why I liked this so much but I did. In fact, I’m already a chapter into Half Share, the sequel.

A note on the narrator’s performance. Solid. That’s how I’d describe it. Christian Rummel is my favorite male narrator but Jeffrey Kafer is no slouch. No obvious mispronunciations, voice characterizations seem to match the characters well, no complaints.

To summarize, this is a slice of life, there are no bad guys to kill or evade. There’s just Ishmael and his crew mates/friends and his oddly compelling journey and I’m totally digging it.