While I really enjoyed the first book in the series, this one just seemed to drag on a bit.
The colony stuff actually made me think of the Pern books covering the early settlers.

I get annoyed by how Botany appears to be developing different classes.
Can't remember how many people there have supposed to be on the planet - 2000 child-bearing women at least anyway.
Why do certain members automatically have access to the limited refurbished technology and have others drop everything to help with their house etc? And this includes people with no particular skill-set except for being introduced as early characters.
What about the people running the kitchen's 24/7 ? Feels like there must be a lot of second class citizens there.

It was only really the last 50 or so pages where anything interesting really happened. Almost 400 pages of yawns building up to that.
However, I shall continue with book 3 of the series and see what happens next. ( )

Anne McCaffrey is one of my all time favorite authors and was one of the first fantasy authors I ever read. Her books can come across as a bit dated now but on the whole I quite enjoy them. Her world building is wonderful and I always find her characters engaging. The Catteni series is one of my favorites by her. ( )

Abducted by the alien Catteni, Kristin Bjornsen was one of many humans brought to the planet Botany as part of an experiment to see if it could support life. Enslaved and forced to colonize a world not their own, the settlers have accepted Botany as their home—a home worth fighting for…

Kristin’s people have learned that the aliens responsible for their imprisonment are merely mercenaries, subjugated by the parasitic Eosi Race, and that Botany is being farmed remotely by some unknown species—a species that may be sympathetic to the colonists’ struggle for freedom.

The “Farmers” refuse to join the humans in their rebellion against the Catteni, but they agree to use their technological skills to shield Botany and hide it from its enemies—buying Kristin and the settlers time to build up their forces and liberate their world… ( )

Okay, now I am cheering for Botany. Thousands of people from different worlds are removed by the Eosi (Catteni) to control the planets, they are dropped by the shipful on planets that the Eosi/Catteni want to colonize. The first problem, the planet they are dropped on is already farmed by a higher race that humans and Catteni alike have never encountered. One Catteni is dropped with a load of other slaves rounded up on Braveri on the colonizing planet. As the story progresses the humans start working toward 1: getting off the planet or 2: freeing themselves from Eosi dominance and/or 3: working with the race that was there first to remove Eosi dominance. What I like about the author is that she, unlike most other Science Fiction authors, has female leading characters, and they usually are not damsels in distress that need rescuing, although that is frequently part of the plot. As you can probably tell, I'm heading over to Amazon to download the next installment. ( )

http://allbookedup-elena.blogspot.ca/2014/09/freedoms-choice-anne-mccaffrey.html ( )