To Trade the Stars: Trade Pact Universe, Book 3

These 3 books are filled with compelling cultures, fascinating characters, and high adventure . This is a universe where individual limitations are overcome for the good of all.

I enjoyed the first book in this series, so I wanted to continue. I make 'friends' with the characters in the books I read. I hate to see them go! :-)

Love this book. Czerneda creates a captivating world. The Kindle e-book is riddled with distracting typos (is the young character's name Tle or Tie?).

This book was listed as new. It cost a little more than the others with bent spines, etc. When it arrived the pages were yellow and the spine was cracked. Still readable, but not as described.

The 3rd book of the Trade Pact Universe featuring Sira and Justin Morgan, this is a satisfying conclusion to several of the threads leftover from A Thousand Words for Stranger and Ties of Power. You can read it on its own but it is best read after the Stratification series and the first two Trade Pact books. The plot is satisfying; the settings just detailed enough to allow the reader to create a mental image; the characters believable; the politics of the Clan (M'hiray) understandable based on their culture; and the non-humanoid aliens by turns cute, incredibly alien, and occasionally unsavory. Ms. Czerneda has done an excellent job of writing an entertaining story that while complete in itself, leaves enough doors, and hatches open to make the reader wish to read more.

I have the hard copies of this trilogy but wanted to reread it while on vacation so I purchased the kindle copies. I LOVE this author and her ability to convey her characters and her universe. I love the relationships developed in these books as well as the amazing alien species and their interactions. This is NOT a stand alone book; you'll need to read the first two to understand this one but it is so worth the read. Highly recommended.

If you like sci-fi with great charachters, this is a book t oread. I loved it.

"To Trade the Stars," the third in Julie E. Czerneda's "Trade Pact Universe" series, is as much about love (and looking for it in the wrong and the right places) as it is about resolving all--err, well many--of the plot lines begun in "A Thousand Words for Stranger" and "Ties of Power." And there are all kinds of love here: love of family; love of friends; even love between species. All the characters from the earlier books return: Sira di Sarc, now Speaker for the Clan Council; her "Chosen" Captain Jason Morgan; her schemeing relatives; Huido, the restauranteur; the twisted schemer Ren Symon; and the maddening Drapsk, who still insist that Sira be their "Mystic One." An interesting new clan member, Ruti, is also introduced, and she plays a key role in the proceedings.Again the tale, at least slightly tongue in cheek (Sira is captured by Morgan's enemy and everyone else is zipping along trying to find her), rollicks along in alternating "Chapters" (told in the first person by Sira) and "Interludes," which clue you in to what other characters are doing. Czerneda keeps things moving along to a satisfying, moving finale.While the publisher is billing the book as the end of a trilogy the author does seem to have left the possibility of continuing on (I for one would like to know what's next for Ruti) and I for one hope that she does.Warning: Don't even think about reading this unless you've read the first two books in the series.

Jason and Sira - he a human telepath and independent trader, she now Speaker for the Clan Council, as well as Jason's life partner - are trying to forge a life for themselves free of the demands of both the Clan and the Drapsk, a race determined to claim Sira as the long-awaited Mystic One. And as if these conflicting demands aren't making life complicated enough, there are at least two other factions with far more dangerous intentions seeking them out.Any hope Sira and Jason have of charting their own course seems likely to vanish forever when they are enexpectedly caught in a conflict between the Drapsk and a mysterious race that dwells in the M'hir. With all of their energies directed toward this crisis, will they become easy prey for those among the Clan and the Humans who are already mobilizing to take advantage of the coming conflict?The conclusion to this trilogy was an exiting read. I enjoyed the combination of fantasy and science fiction that Czerneda manages to put into most of her books.