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Power Play (Petaybee #3)
Petaybee was growing up. Day by day, the sentient planet--like any child--was learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech.
Yanaba Maddock had appointed herself defender of her adopted planet, and she had even succeeded in proving its sentience to all the...more
Yanaba Maddock had appointed herself defender of her adopted planet, and she had even succeeded in proving its sentience to all the...more
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Published
February 19th 2002
by Del Rey
(first published 1992)
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I'm guessing this is where McCaffrey checked out of this series. The tone changes entirely - it's a marked difference, and not a good one. Suddenly there's a lot of "she caught her own unspoken pun and chuckled", and you read back thinking "what pun? Oh, that - why are we noting that?" There are a lot more jokey slang phrases as well, which were out of date when the book was published and so now just sound totally bizarre; I don't really believe that that lingo is still alive...more
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My full review is here on my personal website. I'll post my conclusion here, though:
4.0 out of 5.0 stars
Okay, maybe I'm losing my mind, but Yana and Sean's relationship seems to work a little better in the book, but they also go a little out-of-character. That's why it lost a whole point. There's no explanation for the change in their characters, it's just suddenly and subtly different.
The very worst thing about this book is the unexplained changes in the ...more
4.0 out of 5.0 stars
Okay, maybe I'm losing my mind, but Yana and Sean's relationship seems to work a little better in the book, but they also go a little out-of-character. That's why it lost a whole point. There's no explanation for the change in their characters, it's just suddenly and subtly different.
The very worst thing about this book is the unexplained changes in the ...more
The senitent planet Petaybee tolerates only a few people and has driven off the large corporations intending to strip her resources. But now the companies start trying to overload the planet through guerrilla action and the hiring of pirates.
Yara has saved the planet, or atleast she thought she had until the troops landed on the planet. the story of survial and connection when the planet finds that it is alive and learns to respect the life of those who depend on her
Another good read by McCaffrey!
Awesome
Another light easy re-read, and just as enjoyable as the first time around. Love that planet!
Okay, this is the last one I was willing to read. There were moral stories here I couldn't stomach. Anne McCaffrey and I have some things we vehemently disagree about. And this series is done for me.
Enjoyed this series.
I don't remember much about who Yana's kidnappera are. I think the animals of the planet play a large role in this installment.
Read the last book first cos I saw it cheap...
Not bad!
Not bad!
I've been rereading the series before reading the two new ones.
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Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 1:30 p.m., in the hour of the Sheep, year of the Fire Tiger, sun sign Aries with Taurus rising and Leo mid-heaven (which seems to suggest an early interest in the stars).
Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent....more
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Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent....more
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