Salvage Title: The Salvage Title Trilogy, Book 1

This is the first book I've read by this author.Let me start by saying I really enjoyed this and had a great time with it. Yes, there are a few problems, but they didn't lessen my enjoyment at all.There are two planets surround the sun. One is Joth, which sounds like Hoth and is equally inhospitable. Joth is very hot and only at the poles do things cool down enough for people to live and work there. Harmon is working his friends Clip and their alien reptile friend who is always eating fruit work at a salvage yard.The other planet is Tretra, which is a human only world and where the local military academy resides. Harmon attended the academy and did well enough to become an officer but because he was from Joth, they made him a private. He left instead.Using spare parts they find from Ninto's salvage yard, the three friends build a mech. And then proceed to enter it into the annual mech challenge. Harmon relies on rules that allow members of the inactive reserve to provide their own mech and weapons and shows up in an ungainly looking and far too big mech.I won't spoil what happens next, but it's a lot of fun.Now that they have a mech, what the guys wanted to do all along was go into space. With Ninto's help, they buy a salvage ship and go in search of salvage that other salvagers have overlooked. They try a couple different things and do okay, then well, then amazingly well.I didn't have any problems with the writing as other reviewers have mentioned. My only gripe is that the war skips over some key events, summarizing them instead of showing us what happened. And I'm not sure it was necessary to show us the aliens' perspective when we already know the outcome.Either way, I really liked this. It was refreshing and a ton of fun. The editing is okay but not great, and character development is pushed to the side in favor of finding more awesome things for the guys to do. 5/5* and I've already started on book two.

There are, in my opinion only a few things that stop it from being 5 stars, but no the less it’s a great read.

Very fun story,worth the read. Read it now! Its fun ,just enjoy it.Harmony and his crew are great,smart and innovative .

Bought this by recommendation, not disappointed.Went ahead and bought the next two in line.Good characters with believability, not over powered, showing that even underdogs and misfits can do very well for themselves with a little luck and a lot on ingenuity. Would recommend just for the oddity of knowing a five foot tall marsupial named Big Jon turns out to be like an alien Rambo badass mofo with a John Wayne complex. Love that character. Keep up the good work.Gave only four stars due to some awkwardness in the writing that lost me for a bit. Also need more description of events between some of the breaks in parts of the story. Otherwise it could have made five stars.Very entertaining otherwise.

Quite simply a *neat* idea....if you can't BUY a ship, maybe you can win one!I like this book, the primary character. They remind me a bit of me.....born into poverty, bright but without resources, wanting a way out, jumping on the chance for a tournament. From the beginning when they figure out how to make disparate pieces to build a unique Mech warrior to when they are finally in the final tournament the action proceeds apace. And while all of this is going on, an alien racing seeking expansion begins eyeing their solar system as the PERFECT place to conquer....Very much feels like a Young Adult book, but it moves quickly and doesn't bog. The writing style is a bit shaky from time to time and sometimes the solutions to a problem or a bit too pat, but (looking ahead to the next couple of books) they find more firm footing later. The ending is satisfying but nicely sets up the next volume quite nicely.I liked this book more than I thought I would. Very much looking forward to the author fleshing out the universe he's created! Recommend.

It's a pretty good book. It doesn't break new ground or anything, but it's humorous, has a fair amount of both space and ground action to keep the reader entertained.Worth a read if you've got the time.

I'm a big fan of space operas, and this book didn't disappoint. I liked it so much I ordered the other books in the series, so I can continue with the story.

When I first started reading sci-fi, it was with the old-time space adventure books. Books by Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov just to name a few. They told the stories of adventures in space, of the explorers and settlers of our extraterrestrial frontier. Those books were fun to read and exciting. This book, "Salvage Title", by Kevin Steverson, is just such a book. It's a good time; an adventure in space. Pick up the book, and dare to go exploring.Harmon, Clip and Zerith are friends. They have a dream…a dream of going into space, of making their living out in the vast blackness between the stars. So, Harmon, a graduate of the Tretrayon System Academy, takes advantage of the loophole of his Inactive Reserve status and enters the Top Fleet Marine competition, put on every year by the Tretrayon Defense Fleet, in an attempt to win the 100,000 credit prize. But, when the military political machinery takes umbrage at Harmon showing up the Tretra Defense Fleet's finest young warriors by out fighting and outshooting them in the contest (after all, Harmon is from the wrong side of the tracks, since he was born and raised on Tretra's sister planet of Jotha), the officers responsible for overseeing the contest find their own loophole in order to prevent Harmon from collecting his winnings. How Harmon, Clip and Zerith get around this problem and fulfill their dream is a reading adventure that all sci-fi aficionados will thoroughly enjoy, from start to finish. Truly, a literary E-ticket ride.

Nice reading, it flows nicely between scenes, although there is some bumping.The technical aspect is well developed and is able to convey the ideas.I recomend reading it.

Though the characters are pretty simple, the author uses an interesting approach of showing both sides of a battle, and moves things along fast enough to keep your interest. Good enough that I’m going to buy book 2, and expect the characters & plot to mature - this is the first published book I can find by this author = heck of a good start.

very well doneRecommend for sci fi people who like lost worlds and good straight up fights

This book is a non stop ride from beginning to end. I'm looking forward to see how the story develops!

Great Story