Attain Firestar (Families War Cycle, #1) Compiled By Bruce H. Bretthauer EPub

story. Outstanding series. This is a great story and the start of a series, The story starts someoo years as far as I could tell in the future and focuses on, in this book, one character, The world she comes from is inside a nebula, Why is this important, well because that nebula

is deadly to men, therefore, men in that world's society are kept protected, far underground, away from the deadly radiation that would kill them on the surface.
Leading from this, the ratio of men to women is about:with the women living on the surface,

This story starts with a young space fighter pilot, called Cory callsign Crazy Cory, who is a member of the space navy, She with her wingman/woman, saves a unknown ship from their enemy, and in doing so, ends up meeting males for the first time in her life, What I especially liked was that the women in the series did not fall back to the standard position of so many in other books/TV/movies and play second fiddle to the male characters.


All the characters are well fleshed out, and contribute to the story, Over the course of the series Families War Cycle we meet different characters and situations, The author has done a great job with all of them, in that we really get emotionally involved with them, which makes reading these books so wonderful,

This is one of my favourite series', and can't recommend it enough, Unfortunately the author, Bruce Bretthauer died, I think, last year, so there won't be anymore in this series, However he did leave, as I understand it, though I could be wrong, stories with another author to finish, The Families War Cycle, is a complete series, I love this series, found it first on a free stories site, Then when it was published on Amazon I had to buy them all even tho I had saved the free ones,

If you Love female heroes Bruce creates the best,

Bruce edited and had the books proof read before they were published on Amazon, I think there are some minor changes all for the good,

Some of the books stoires overlap each other in the time line, they each paint more detail to the story or make the transition from one part to the other.
This started out as a very David Weberesque military scifi, recommended to me by my father because he knows I love Honor Harrington, I'm always in the mood for a good space battle isn't everyone

Unfortunately, I just wasn't into the gender politics and social mechanics going on here, It felt very gimmicky, too played up far past what I could find convincing and going over into what I could only perceive as comic, which just left me feeling frustrated that a series with good potential was lost.


Bummed to have to disappoint Dad, but this just was not my thing, He loves it, and that's what's important, It just wasn't for me, This is a great story and an amazing universe, Space opera at it's finest, The United Families , a culture that iswomen, have been at war for nearlyyears, Losses and costs have been mounting, and they are desperate for a solution, They may have found one in young Corey Andersen, Family Red Ridges, She may just be lucky, or perhaps something more, .