Reviews

Festival Moon by Nancy Asire, C.J. Cherryh, Janet E. Morris, Mercedes Lackey, Pat Tobin, Chris Morris, Lynn Abbey, Robert Lynn Asprin, Leslie Fish

jericho89's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

codexmendoza's review

4.0

When I read the first book I wasn't sure why the world had such a complex alien and space travel filled background beyond the fact that Cherryh was a scifi writer, so I was kind of delighted that this book it uses the worldbuilding so that Merovingen is both based off 1500s Venice while also being multi-racial/cultural. Also, I enjoyed the vamping up of the political backstabbing and social class concerns. Suck it GRRM.

This book also reminded me why I really like mosaic novels, although there wasn't a lot of resolution to the various plotlines. I was expecting a last chapter to pull all the threads together but there wasn't really. (Or maybe I just find Cherryh writing from the perspective of Jones kind of confusing.)

jameseckman's review

2.0

Start of a shared universe that never caught on.