You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
tinyel 's review for:
Razor's Edge
by Martha Wells
It's fine. Unfortunately nothing to write home about, and not worth rereading. There's no new ground being broken, and because of the extremely odd choice of where to place this within the timeline, it's...literally a requirement that nothing of any important that has long-term effects happen.
We do not get to meet any new characters who we can fall in love with and look forward to seeing again. This is a standalone story that will never impact any other section of the Star Wars universe, but it doesn't have enough going for it to make that worthwhile.
And there's a lot of bad things in this.
Here's a quote I wrote down to remember later:
"Lorrdians had been enslaved for several centuries back in the time of the Republic. Forbidden by their captors to speak, they had managed to develop an extremely subtle sign language of facial expressions and slight gestures. Over time it had evolved into a sophisticated kinetic language, but it had also allowed many Lorrdians to interpret the body language of other species and human cultures, to read their intentions and to tell if what they said was the truth, or not."
There's...so many things wrong with that and I don't even feel like spelling them out. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. It'd be fine if they were literally Force-sensitive, but we're just supposed to pretend they can totally-scientifically definitely-not-magically understand everyone's body language no matter what species or any other thing about the person.
Anyways. The cover makes no sense, and the title has nothing to do with anything. The ending is absurdly abrupt.
If you can borrow it from a friend or your library, then go ahead and read it. But I wouldn't recommend paying money for it until you've read it for free. I don't see ever picking this book back up again. There's nothing important or even anything fun enough to be worth a standalone book.
It's just incredibly odd to place a book at this spot in the timeline where you literally cannot do anything meaninful in the wider sense, and she didn't do anything meaningful in the smaller sense either. Kind of defeats the purpose of writing a story in the first place...
We do not get to meet any new characters who we can fall in love with and look forward to seeing again. This is a standalone story that will never impact any other section of the Star Wars universe, but it doesn't have enough going for it to make that worthwhile.
And there's a lot of bad things in this.
Here's a quote I wrote down to remember later:
"Lorrdians had been enslaved for several centuries back in the time of the Republic. Forbidden by their captors to speak, they had managed to develop an extremely subtle sign language of facial expressions and slight gestures. Over time it had evolved into a sophisticated kinetic language, but it had also allowed many Lorrdians to interpret the body language of other species and human cultures, to read their intentions and to tell if what they said was the truth, or not."
There's...so many things wrong with that and I don't even feel like spelling them out. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. It'd be fine if they were literally Force-sensitive, but we're just supposed to pretend they can totally-scientifically definitely-not-magically understand everyone's body language no matter what species or any other thing about the person.
Anyways. The cover makes no sense, and the title has nothing to do with anything. The ending is absurdly abrupt.
If you can borrow it from a friend or your library, then go ahead and read it. But I wouldn't recommend paying money for it until you've read it for free. I don't see ever picking this book back up again. There's nothing important or even anything fun enough to be worth a standalone book.
It's just incredibly odd to place a book at this spot in the timeline where you literally cannot do anything meaninful in the wider sense, and she didn't do anything meaningful in the smaller sense either. Kind of defeats the purpose of writing a story in the first place...