false 3000862 2 <I>It's Not Over Til The Skinny Lady Sings .</I> . . <P> <P> Working off of a piece of intelligence from the alien Hexosehr, the <I>Vorpal Blade</I> is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the &#8220;black box&#8221; that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice but what the <I>Blade</I> finds is much more than they bargained for. Worse, the ship is infested by an alien species of scorpion-like arachnoids that has the potential to wipe out a world. Worst of all, instead of being Astrogator, Captain William Weaver is now the XO and he is <I>not</I> getting along with the new commander. And the new commander does not get along with Weaver, the ship's female savant-linguist or most of the rest of the original crew. And what <I>is</I> that weird noise the ship makes every time it's in hard maneuvers? <P> <P> Leave it to the oddball geniuses of the <I>Blade</I> to sort it all out. And the Dreen are <I>not </I>going to like the answers.<P><P> 3031353 4 11 2008 Claws That Catch (Looking Glass, #4) total:71|5:2|4:3|3:0|2:0|1:0| 71 282 103 6 1 0 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 11:04:57 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 07:56:21 -0800 2008
It's a fair to good series, but this book lets it down. Deus ex machina after deus ex machina (I counted four plot devices introduced for the sole purpose of saving the characters' butts, in some cases being the central plot point of large parts of the book), against whic...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:38:20 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:44:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 23 06:02:38 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 06:07:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 16:52:05 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 19:41:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 12:06:05 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 20:12:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 12 09:19:31 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 09 08:16:07 -0700 2009
If you like space opera with a bit too much...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 09:59:58 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 09:59:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 21:11:37 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 21:11:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 09:04:19 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 09:04:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 11:24:39 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 11:24:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 22 20:31:10 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 20:31:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 12:04:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 12:04:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 11:18:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:18:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 13:42:21 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:42:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 11:19:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 03:27:24 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:19:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Sep 19 19:01:14 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 19:01:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 21:16:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 21:16:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 07:40:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:40:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 21:08:07 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 21:08:07 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 18:43:13 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 18:43:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3000862