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A review by jonathanpalfrey
The Search for Kä by Randall Garrett, Vicki Ann Heydron
2.0
This book comes as a relief after the previous one: it makes relatively pleasant reading, and also moves with reasonable pace and includes a number of significant plot events.
Rikardon and Tarani still struggle with moments of disagreement and lack of trust, but the problems between them are not as bad now.
I still don't find here the compelling scenes that motivate me to reread a book. I've read it for this second time only because the first time was thirty years ago and I'd forgotten what happened since then. So I think this is a straight two-star novel: "It was OK."
Heydron (who actually wrote these books, planned by her and Garrett) is capable of writing fiction competently, but seems to lack the knack of writing compelling scenes.
Incidentally, the letter 'ä' is normally pronounced like the letter 'e', so 'Kä' should sound similar to 'qué' in Spanish, which means 'what?'. The title of this book could thus be understood as "The search for What?"
Rikardon and Tarani still struggle with moments of disagreement and lack of trust, but the problems between them are not as bad now.
I still don't find here the compelling scenes that motivate me to reread a book. I've read it for this second time only because the first time was thirty years ago and I'd forgotten what happened since then. So I think this is a straight two-star novel: "It was OK."
Heydron (who actually wrote these books, planned by her and Garrett) is capable of writing fiction competently, but seems to lack the knack of writing compelling scenes.
Incidentally, the letter 'ä' is normally pronounced like the letter 'e', so 'Kä' should sound similar to 'qué' in Spanish, which means 'what?'. The title of this book could thus be understood as "The search for What?"