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6/23/2019
I highly recommend this entire series (5 novels in Vatta's War and now 2 novels in Vatta's Peace), but I read the predecessor to this one without having read the first series and felt that it stood alone well, dropping in just enough of the back story for readers to feel as though they understand what's going on. I would say that this one stands alone pretty well, too.
Whereas the first series involved a lot of space adventure and battles, this series features edge-of-the-seat planet-based adventures with mysteries and political machinations and daring escapes. These books are so great that I will probably re-read (something I rarely do) the first two when the next one comes out.