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Rent Freedom's Choice
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Narrator: Susie Breck and Dick Hill
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - Series
Retail Price: $29.99
Discs: 10
Synopsis
Anne McCaffrey captured the interest and hearts of many with Freedom's Landing as Catteni slaves unexpectedly became settlers establishing a new colony on Botany, presumably an uninhabited M-type planet. In Freedom's Choice the saga progresses to an extraordinary level. The shipments of Catteni slaves continue, but they find that they are enjoyably reinventing the creature comforts of home, and searching for the origin of the Farmers who were the original occupants of Botany, all under the keen eyes of two very different observers. When scouts for the Emassi come to retrieve Zainal, shanghaied in the original shipment of slaves, Botany changes irrevocably. Listeners will delight in this continued adventure of survival, romance, and ingenuity.
Reviews
Normally I don't like McCaffrey's type of story, but the series she wrote with these slaves was a departure from her usual story line so I did like it. I was intrigued by the possibilities of developing relationships and partnerships among the various groups of slaves that united against their overlords. The only dark spot was in how she used the excuse of alcohol to overcome the female protagonists reluctance to mate with a human in order to produce more offspring - out of loyalty for her alien lover.