The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
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The Heart of Valor

Author: Tanya Huff

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/07/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine's marine. She'd survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive—than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep that record intact. But since her last mission, she'd been sidelined into endless briefings and debriefings with no end in sight. So, of course, she'd jumped at the chance to go to Crucible—the Marine Corps training planet—as a temporary aide to Major Svensson. The major had been reduced to little more than a brain and a spinal cord in his last combat, and he and his doctor were anxious to field-test his newly regrown body.

It should have been an easy twenty-day run. After all, Crucible was only set up to simulate battle situations so that recruits could be trained safely. But they were barely on-planet when someone started blasting the training scenarios to smithereens. Suddenly, Kerr found herself not only responsible for the major and his doctor but caught in a desperate fight to keep a platoon of Marine recruits alive until someone could discover what was happening on Crucible.

About Tanya Huff

Tanya Huff spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve, then earned a degree in radio and television arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. She is the author of numerous short stories and more than twenty novels, including the bestselling Blood books, the Smoke series, and the Keeper's Chronicles. She has been the guest of honor at numerous American and Canadian conventions, and her work has been nominated for several awards. She lives in Ontario, Canada.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on December 19, 2018

This series is starting to feel like "more of the same" on repeat. Once again Torin is ambushed and must hold out and lead her group to victory. Once again there's a bunch of "redshirt" marines that don't really matter and a lot of action. It wasn't terrible, I just felt like I've already read this......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on April 25, 2014

This book must get a 4 star rating, it's better than a 3. Still it's not as good as the two earlier books in the series. In a way we set up the same type of situation that (now Gunny) Kerr faces (view spoiler)[ a siege (hide spoiler)] . It's not precisely the same (view spoiler)[ as here we have a running battle across land rather than a group (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 18, 2011

The third of Tanya Huff’s Confederation series. For those who haven’t encountered the series yet it’s a boots’ eye view military sci-fi, heavy on command structure but always viewed from the NCO/grunts on the ground perspective. Those looking for anything deep or meaningful should look away now. It......more

Goodreads review by Chuck on December 02, 2010

84 out of 100 for 2010 In case you're counting, I did not skip 83 but instead re-read an Elizabeth Moon novel for a class I'm teaching (Victory Conditions). Hey, when you're trying to plow through 100, you count re reads. Another continuation of Tanya Huff's confederation series. Huff is really statri......more