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lisarue's review
3.0
John Barnes has an engaging series and worth reading, although this particular book ends suddenly and oddly. I hope that's a good lead-in for the next book.
leons1701's review
3.0
A solid but not spectacular outing from Barnes. The Jak Jinnaka series is a bit below his normal output, not too far, but enough to feel just a bit off. At his best, Barnes can be amazing, but he doesn't reach those heights here. So, being as this is a Jinnaka book, there's plenty of unexplained slang, though it generally makes sense in context and sometimes makes so much sense you can figure out where it came from. This one is a bit uglier than the first in the sense of nasty people doing nasty things (and some of them are the ones you thought you were supposed to root for) for reasons ranging from reasonable to nasty. Not quite the fun read the Duke of Uranium was.
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