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thistlechaser's review against another edition
2.0
This must have been some book in the middle of a series. I think it's also the first book by Andre Norton that I've read.
In it a girl was owned by a bad guy. Some kind of war was happening (I assume the rest of the series focused on that, this felt more like a side-story), and the owner of the space ship (and owner of the girl) was part of the Thieves Guild. Apparently the Thieves Guild, as the name implies, were bad guys.
Having a Thieves Guild set in space/in the future was really jarring, it feels more like an old D&D idea than something that would exist in the time of space travel.
The writing (technical) was okay. Not bad, not good. I didn't really buy the characters as real people. But more damning, I didn't buy the cat as a real animal. I gave up at that point (10%).
In it a girl was owned by a bad guy. Some kind of war was happening (I assume the rest of the series focused on that, this felt more like a side-story), and the owner of the space ship (and owner of the girl) was part of the Thieves Guild. Apparently the Thieves Guild, as the name implies, were bad guys.
Having a Thieves Guild set in space/in the future was really jarring, it feels more like an old D&D idea than something that would exist in the time of space travel.
The writing (technical) was okay. Not bad, not good. I didn't really buy the characters as real people. But more damning, I didn't buy the cat as a real animal. I gave up at that point (10%).
serena_dawn's review against another edition
3.0
Another whiny girl, and I can clearly see that Arc and Circus are intended to hook up with Storm and his brother; I would have greatly preferred if the books had stayed about the brothers and their world, their family, instead of these "pick up" books, that are about "romance" (if you can call it that; I can't) I'm just disgusted that these girl characters seem only to have been written to be with the brothers. They don't have much personality beyond annoying.
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