A review by lian_tanner
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh

3.0

I love the world Cherryh has built in this series - the cat-like hani with their matrilineal world and their males who are seen as too emotional for the serious business of space flight. The arrival on the scene of the naked and frightened human is fascinating too. I found it a little less accessible than Cherryh's other books - part of the problem for me was the very realistic but often difficult to understand dialogue between species, where mechanical translators and space-pidgin create highly ambiguous wordings. And the politicking - which is obviously Cherryh's great interest (it pervades all her books) - is even more tortuous than usual. But it held my interest enough to read the next two books in the series, and I will look out for the final ones.