Reviews

Tronul Lumii Inelare by Larry Niven

sepptb's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

jbrito's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

esteinmetz's review against another edition

3.0

The constant focus on sex in these books doesn't add anything in my opinion, and as a result is distracting. Not a good book, not a bad book, but a meh book.

goodkoopa's review against another edition

1.0

What's with all the rishathra? Niven seems to be obsessed with interspecies soft porn. I feel Niven must have a lot of pent up, unexpressed sexual feelings and maybe he's never seen a naked lady.

tarostar's review against another edition

3.0

I read a lot of Larry Niven during my youthful years and I remember the books fondly.

mrlmnop's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

andgineer's review against another edition

2.0

Довольно быстро бросил читать - отсутствие новых идей уже во второй книге серии удручало, а тут еще странная идея сосредоточиться на самой спорной идее первых книг - вампирах.
В какой-то момент стало просто неприятно и бросил читать.

sylda's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

ultimatumman's review against another edition

1.0

Terrible. The first two books in this series were great. This book took an unexpected twist early on when the focus became the vampires that apparently live on the ringworld. It was a little weird, but it could have played out well had it been relevant. On the ringworld there are various humanoid species that have evolved individually. Between these species there is a custom called rishathra, which is sex with another intelligent species. Though introduced in the previous novel, the author became OBSESSED with rishathra in this book. It seemed like you couldn't go five pages without talking about or performing it. It started with the vampires which used pheremones to attrach their victims to mate with them. This could have made sense since this would provide the vampires with additional future food, but it turned out not to be a different spin on vampires, but just another part of the author's obsession with sex. There wasn't any point to this book besides aliens hooking up.

zimb0's review against another edition

2.0

Could not bring myself to read the final 100 or so pages, it just became so boring. Hard to follow, despite a narrative that has a lot of potential. I hear the fourth book is better!