An entertaining but frustrating book. It is entertaining because it has plenty of action and an interesting mix of characters. It is frustrating because it is hard to like the 'good' guys. The two main characters, Daniel Leary and Adele Mundy, border on being elitist and bigoted. This fits to a certain extent given the society model used and given that Some Golden Harbor is firmly set in the space opera niche of science fiction but they are just too condescending too often for my tastes. Worse is that the 'good' guys are, well, thugs. How so? Well, lets just look at what happens after our heroes have won a small fight and the hoodlums are completely beaten:

Woodson stared in disbelief as Hogg lifted the groaning Pintada's head halfway into the driver's compartment.
"You want the car, wog?", he shouted.
And slammed the door with his foot.

Hogg is Daniel's man servant and, sorry, but I can't like such a character. And so I am frustrated by Some Golden Harbor. I want to like the characters but I don't. I want to read the other books in the series until I remember how many times something happened in this one that made me want to set it down and move on to something else. And I want to recommend it because it is a good old-fashioned space opera and I spent many an hour as a teen reading such books. But for me the flaws outweigh the good and I'll recommend David Weber's Honor series and E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series and Skylark series instead. ( )

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