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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Once upon a time at some point about 20 years ago, I owned both [b:Rusalka|57101|Rusalka (Russian Stories, #1)|C.J. Cherryh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1203225295s/57101.jpg|926183] and [b:Chernevog|57153|Chernevog (Russian Stories #2)|C.J. Cherryh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1213925790s/57153.jpg|1945189]. I didn't know there was a third book. At some point in the last year I discovered its existence, and one night, with the questionable assistance of bourbon, I ordered it.
Maybe I should have reread the other two to prepare myself; I remembered broad outlines but not details.
In any case: the atmosphere is the same, and I enjoyed that. But...well. It didn't do a great job of giving me enough clues to figure out what was going on, and I really, really disliked the ending.
I'm not sorry I read it, exactly, but maybe I would have liked it better had I read it around the same time as the others. Bet I still wouldn't have liked the ending, though.
Maybe I should have reread the other two to prepare myself; I remembered broad outlines but not details.
In any case: the atmosphere is the same, and I enjoyed that. But...well. It didn't do a great job of giving me enough clues to figure out what was going on, and I really, really disliked the ending.
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1. cop out - have everyone be related! 2. age difference, eww. 3. Yeah, sure, end with a marriage, why notI'm not sorry I read it, exactly, but maybe I would have liked it better had I read it around the same time as the others. Bet I still wouldn't have liked the ending, though.
The sequel to Chernevog. A strange young man, Yvgenie, shows up at Pyetr and Eveshka's home, but is he there to threaten their daughter Ilyana?
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
Yvgenie manages to bring Cherryh's The Russian Stories full circle to a kind of resolution - at least as much of a resolution as is possible with such a tangled skein of wishes and loyalties and loves. The setting is the same, and again the characters are stumbling about amid the forest and flying wishes, against unknown antagonists, but the author manages to bring in some additional characters with enough of a twist to make the story compelling one final time.