Grounded - Nicole Shea, Bk 2 Author:Chris Claremont Takes place not long after the ending of First Flight. The book explores the reaction of Earth to the startling news that we are not alone in the universe any more. — Lt. Nicole Shea was once a top space pilot. She crushed a marauding Wolfpack -- and established first contact with an alien civilization. — Now they've taken away her flight rati... more »ng and reassigned her to a diplomatic post on Earth. Shea is supposed to disappear into the footnotes of history.
But the defeated raiders have not forgotten her -- and neither have the alien Halyan't'a.
Soon Shea is enmeshed in intrigue more deadly than any outer-space battle. Still, even without wings, a true pilot can never be . . . GROUNDED!« less
If you like your S/F technically believable with lots of action, you will like this one. For me a big plus is the hot pilot heroine- she's tough, smart and straight-up good people. I enjoyed it.
Where the first book in this series, First Flight, offered up a pretty good action-adventure space epic, this second book in the series just left me feeling bored. While it too has it's share of action, and the beginning was promising, about halfway through it degenerates into a mish-mash of virtual reality, quasi-mystic introspection and dream sequences that quickly had me losing interest in both the book and the series. I got to about the two thirds point before giving up and tossing it on the trash heap.