![Cover art for Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon](http://sites.lafayette.edu/newquisk/files/2015/05/Marque-and-Reprisal-by-Elizabeth-Moon.jpg)
The second volume in Moon’s “Vatta’s War” series starts a hell of a lot faster than Book 1. It picks up about where Book 1 left off — young Kylara Vatta, kicked out of the Slotter Key Spaceforce Academy, is now captain of one of her merchant family’s spaceships. The book opens with a clandestine war being waged against Vatta’s holdings and Ky reeling from the consequences.
I read the first book in this series as part of my Summer 2013 reading list in the hopes that it would scratch my military SF itch. It didn’t — that book was all setup, with little in the way of naval space battles, but this one is has kicked up the space war factor considerably.