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dustydigger
Posted 2015-04-30 10:25 PM (#10366 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: UK		David Weber - A Beautiful Friendship - This book is a prequel to the Honor Harrington series, as one of her ancestors, a teenage girl, is the first human to make contact with a treecat, an indigenous species on a frontier planet, and is telepathically bonded with one of them. Nicely written, it has a flavour similar to Anne McCaffrey's cozy, warmhearted YA Pern books. A pleasant read, with interesting characters and lots of background info on the treecats we are familiar with from Weber's Honor Harrington adult series. Not spectacular, but a fun enjoyable teen read. I would be quite willing to read more of the series.
C J Cherryh - Peacemaker. I have been a longtime Cherryh fan,but I hope that the Foreigner series has become bogged down in the minutiae of political intrigue . In book 6 the human hero,sole diplomatic link between his race and the indigenous Atevi of the planet went off into space and met yet another race. Pushing that aside,Cherryh has spent nine booksfocusing on the minutiae of court intrigues,civil war and the like,a lot of it written from the point of view of the 8 year old son of the ruler. Finally in this,book 15, the boy has had his birthday party,after six books anticipating it,most of the intrigues and problems have been sorted,and MAYBE next time we can start a new story arc.Nine books waiting for the appearance of an intriguing new species is enough!. Still an absorbing intense read,as usual with Cherryh,but please lets move on!
I also read Chloe Neill's Dark Debt,the latest in her Chicagoland Vampires series,a light and enjoyable addition to the story of Merit and her beloved boss Ethan,a fast paced UF book. Neill has developed this pleasant series,and I was happy to renew my acquaintance with the likeable cast of characters. Also read Patricia Briggs Dead Heat,the fifth outing for Charles and Anna in the Alpha and Omega series.


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