Delaine calls Alexis by any number of pet names in French during their romance.Alexis finds out via an overheard conversation in a pub that she's become known among the crew as 'Little Bit', short for 'Little Bit of Bosun', in reference to her A Mother to Her Men command style and reputation as a fighter (from the incident with Alan, which grew in the telling).The ship remains in orbit in serviceable condition, however.

Abandon Ship: During the privateer attack on Erzurum at the end of Privateer, Alexis's ship Mongoose is disabled and she's forced to evacuate.The narration comments that the enlisted crew are required to have contraceptive implants to prevent such accidents, but officers aren't. Abandoned War Child: In The Little Ships, Alexis encounters a young woman on Giron who was impregnated by one of Alexis' shipmates while they were all being held there as prisoners of war two years earlier in Mutineer (the other officers had given parole and were housed in the town Alexis had refused out of concern for the enlisted crew).These books provide examples of the following tropes: Spacer, Smuggler, Pirate, Spy consists of: Planetfall (2016): Prequel to Into the Dark starring Alexis' grandfather, depicting the colonization of Dalthus.Ī sister series starring a secondary character, the charming rogue Avrel Dansby, also debuted in 2018.Wronged (2015): Set 30 years prior to Into the Dark but dealing with events connected to The Little Ships, starring Someone Completely Different.It's basically Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE! if Horatio was, instead, Horati a. So, what's a tomboy to do when all the boys of her age and class are entitled sexist idiots?Īppointed a midshipman by the kindly Captain Grantham aboard Her Majesty's Sloop Merlin while her grandfather lobbies to have the laws changed, Alexis, now the only female officer in the Fringe Fleet, battles pirates and sexist shipmates and superiors alike, as war brews with the neighboring Republic of Hanover. Unfortunately women's rights took a giant leap backward during Dalthus' colonization and inheritance operates on agnatic primogeniture, so she must marry if she's to keep the family's considerable estate in the family. The only living descendant of a landowner on the planet Dalthus IV on the extreme fringe of the New London Kingdom, Alexis Carew grew up raised by her doting grandfather Denholm and his farmhands.

You men get called all the imaginative ones.' Alexis Carew is a series of Space Opera novels by J.A. 'The very worst thing about being a woman in this Navy is that the insults are so very limited.

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