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rhodered 's review for:
Engaging the Enemy
by Elizabeth Moon
The series is OK, but not much more than that. If it were not for the subject and type of heroine, which are favorites of mine, it would have been a 2.5. Aside from a bit less of a sweeping read than I would like, I'd like to complain about the cover of this and all the rest of these books.
1. a pale skinned heroine: the fact that the heroine is NOT light skinned is a major plot point here. In fact, it's so hammered in, that it feels a bit like an anti-bigotry after school special. The fact that the publisher then went and put a white girl on the covers must have made the author gnash her teeth.
2. I knew this was a series prior to reading, but the publisher does not identify this on the covers or indicate which volume in the series it is. I bet some buyers were confused.
3. Each book of this series has mostly interchangable cover blurbs. You can't tell they are about different parts of the story, or where in the story they are. It could all be the same book. Really odd. Perhaps no one gave the copywriter a precis of what actually occured in each volume?
1. a pale skinned heroine: the fact that the heroine is NOT light skinned is a major plot point here. In fact, it's so hammered in, that it feels a bit like an anti-bigotry after school special. The fact that the publisher then went and put a white girl on the covers must have made the author gnash her teeth.
2. I knew this was a series prior to reading, but the publisher does not identify this on the covers or indicate which volume in the series it is. I bet some buyers were confused.
3. Each book of this series has mostly interchangable cover blurbs. You can't tell they are about different parts of the story, or where in the story they are. It could all be the same book. Really odd. Perhaps no one gave the copywriter a precis of what actually occured in each volume?