Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 1/19/2014 + 1568 more book reviews

Not sure how good this review will be, considering that I never got to watch any of the episodes of Firefly until well after the show was cancelled. My bad!
DiCandido does a good job of introducing the crew on Serenity, and outlining their their characteristics without dragging the storyline out too slowly.
No gold-plated perfect heroes here, just confused, sometimes damaged people trying to do their best in bad situations. Good story.

The bad side of it is...Drat! Now he's made me want to go back and hunt up the episodes of the show so I can watch the serial from the beginning.

From back cover: Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds, a hardened war veteran (on the losing side), ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family- squabbling, insubordinate, and undyingly loyal. When Mal takes on two new passengers- a young doctor named Simon and his unstable, telepathic sister, River- he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from a coalition that dominates the universe with unlimited wealth and power- and that will stop at nothing to control River and her abilities. The crew of mercenaries, used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed, soon find themselves caught between the unstoppable military force of the Universal Alliance and the cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Caught up in the fight to stay alive, they don't yet realize that their greatest danger may be on board Serenity herself...

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