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vidholf's review against another edition
5.0
Best trilogy Ive read in years. Engaging character interaction, well-paced plot, just the right mix of mystery and conflict drawing the reader along.
rhodered's review against another edition
4.0
Terrific. This is really fun space opera/ space adventure with all the ingredients one expects from aliens to space battles to underhanded human politics. The ending in particular was just so lovely.
The series is a very action oriented, and influenced by TV in a way, I can totally imagine each section being a SciFi Channel episode. Nothing in the plots or characters is terribly unique, it's standard stuff well done, EXCEPT for the fact that the lead is a woman. And she's not presented in a sexist way - nothing in the plot hinges on her looks, in fact she's rather non-descript looking. She's also not the only woman, not a token. There are plenty of other female characters and none of them are overtly sexy beauties either. The lead's adventures are extraordinary, but her gender is not. What a relief.
This whole series is written in a slightly condensed manner. A lot happens every few pages. The author got better and better about putting in little bits of humor and character insights, but overall, the action needs a bit more room to breath. I'm not sure if that makes sense....it's like a very dense, tasty fruitcake and you wish there was more cake mixed in with the fruit. Do you know what I mean? If this had been the case, it would have hit five stars for me.
Ok except for the cover. Again. The cover artist takes something from the plot and screws up his rendition enough to blur the meaning. In this case, he appears to be showing a scene where our heroine is meeting the alien queen. In the book, the heroine is a bit nervous but not scared. In fact, she's more focused laughing at the crazy outfit her team has cobbled together from beer cans and spare parts to give her more physical size to impress the queen. However this cover shows her looking scared and completely sans beer cans. And it shows the dignified, pregnant alien queen, who was wearing a spacesuit in the book, looking like a frightening attacker with a huge open lizard mouth sans suit.
So, a cool, historic diplomatic meeting between two species has been boiled down to big alien scares little human woman. Argh!
The series is a very action oriented, and influenced by TV in a way, I can totally imagine each section being a SciFi Channel episode. Nothing in the plots or characters is terribly unique, it's standard stuff well done, EXCEPT for the fact that the lead is a woman. And she's not presented in a sexist way - nothing in the plot hinges on her looks, in fact she's rather non-descript looking. She's also not the only woman, not a token. There are plenty of other female characters and none of them are overtly sexy beauties either. The lead's adventures are extraordinary, but her gender is not. What a relief.
This whole series is written in a slightly condensed manner. A lot happens every few pages. The author got better and better about putting in little bits of humor and character insights, but overall, the action needs a bit more room to breath. I'm not sure if that makes sense....it's like a very dense, tasty fruitcake and you wish there was more cake mixed in with the fruit. Do you know what I mean? If this had been the case, it would have hit five stars for me.
Ok except for the cover. Again. The cover artist takes something from the plot and screws up his rendition enough to blur the meaning. In this case, he appears to be showing a scene where our heroine is meeting the alien queen. In the book, the heroine is a bit nervous but not scared. In fact, she's more focused laughing at the crazy outfit her team has cobbled together from beer cans and spare parts to give her more physical size to impress the queen. However this cover shows her looking scared and completely sans beer cans. And it shows the dignified, pregnant alien queen, who was wearing a spacesuit in the book, looking like a frightening attacker with a huge open lizard mouth sans suit.
So, a cool, historic diplomatic meeting between two species has been boiled down to big alien scares little human woman. Argh!
panxa's review against another edition
5.0
Bravo to Chase for keeping the quality consistent through all three books. I really love where she went with the Crabs and how things panned out with Sequoyah, and hope she writes more books in this universe. Also kudos to her for self-publishing her books, both digitally and in print.