Friday Memes: Friends Indeed by David Weber & Jane Lindskold

 Happy Friday!

Book Beginnings is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader. She asks that the first sentence is posted along with the author and title of the book and the reader's initial thoughts on the sentence, the book, or anything else it inspires. 

Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower.org also provides a linky for sharing first lines and connecting with others. This meme asks that the chosen books be PG or marked as Mature if they are not. 

Beginning:

"I must say this is...an unexpected surprise," Duncan Harrington said as the well-dressed man stepped into his office. Then he smiled. "On the other hand, I don't suppose it could be a surprise if I'd been expecting it, now could it?"

Friday 56:

"Please call me Nosey," Nosey said, his expression more than a little unhappy. "Do you really think that could happen? I mean, after they've already gotten as much publicity and notice as they have?"

This week I am spotlighting Friends Indeed by David Weber & Jane Lindskold. I got this one on release day because I've really enjoyed earlier books in this prequel to the Honor Harrington Science Fiction series. This one is Young Adult. Here's the description from Amazon:

A new novel featuring Stephanie Harrington in Honorverse prequel series

What happens after the War of the Gods?

The answer lies in the Heart of the Mountain ...

The trouble with treecats

Stephanie Harrington didn’t discover treecats—they were indigenous to the planet Sphinx, a colony of the tiny Star Kingdom of Manticore. But at age ten she was the first human to bond with one. Now, almost 17, she is the species greatest champion.

To the rest of the human galaxy, if they are known at all, they are recognized as tool using, socially organized, fuzzy little creatures, with no known method of communication—who also happen to be fierce hunters. But are they sapient? Because if they are, that would have all sorts of repercussions for the families who have settled on Sphinx, the Harringtons not the least.

There will be winners, and there will be losers. And Stephanie is there to make sure the treecats don’t lose out.

But Stephanie, the treecats, and Sphinx itself may be caught up in an even greater conspiracy than the one to help the fighting ‘cats survive, one generations in the making ...