Rating: 
Summary: More romance than sci-fi
Review: This is a sci-fi...fantasy novel, and is rather unusual in the way it moves between the various genres. It�s a dual romance story, that of Dr Eden Fynn and space pirate Jace Serafina and Captain Tasha Sebastian (Sass) and her commanding officer Admiral Branden Kel-Paten, who is a cyborg otherwise known as 'the tin soldier'.The novel moves along at a good pace and has interesting main characters. The thing I found most disconcerting about this book was the lack of any real development for any secondary characters. At times it�s like the entire universe consists of four people and two cats despite the fact you know that they are living in a heavily peopled environment like a space ship. In many ways this is more of a character novel than it is an SF story despite what appears to be a strong SF universe at the start of the story. If you like the novels of Catherine Asaro you may enjoy this book, though that strong SF universe gets badly diluted half way though the book. COMMAND PERFORMANCE ends with an unexpected story twist and there is a 'to be continued' note stating that the story will continue with another, yet to be published novel, called COMMAND DECISION.
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