The worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil.
Civil war on Umeh--ignited by outsiders--threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of ... read full description
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Dec 17, 2009
Mark
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Karen Traviss is another of those classically-educated British sci-fi writers that's captured my attention lately.
Her series, that begins with City of Pearl, is an unusual blend of vegeterianism, ecological responsibility, mutating symbionts, and interspecies war. Humans are, for the most part, the bad guys here, though it takes a while to figure that out. And our protagonist chooses her sides very quickly, putting her at odds with her people.
As with many of other female More...
Her series, that begins with City of Pearl, is an unusual blend of vegeterianism, ecological responsibility, mutating symbionts, and interspecies war. Humans are, for the most part, the bad guys here, though it takes a while to figure that out. And our protagonist chooses her sides very quickly, putting her at odds with her people.
As with many of other female More...
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Jan 03, 2012
Karen
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Unfortunately, the series probably should have ended with The World Before, or at the latest, with Matriarch. The last three books in this series (Matriarch, Ally, Judge) felt as though they'd been written to outline, or to fulfill a book contract, rather than to tell the stories of the fascinating main characters and the endlessly inventive worlds explored in the first three books. The plots wandered; the same three or four situations/plotlines (alien parasite, ecological revisionism, and rom
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Oct 07, 2010
Mandeep
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Good sci-fi by a British author (and you can tell she's British from the language used). Enjoyed this book even though I haven't read the preceding 4. There's a large emphasis on environmentalism, with the most advanced species being vegan genocidal pragmatists .... and the human protagonists are mutants due to bacterial contamination. Even though there was more emphasis on the interior motivations, moral dilemnas etc of the characters than I would have liked, the book stiill held my interest
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Jul 08, 2010
Jhutson456
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The previous book in the Wess'har Wars series was my least favorite. However, this book I would easily chalk up as my favorite. This book is awesome. Very intense with lots of mind blowing images. Great book!
Oct 23, 2007
Sarah
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Wow, I love this amazing series. The sixth and final book comes out in 2008, and I simultaneously can hardly wait to continue and am sad to see the saga coming to a close. Traviss has done an astounding job of world-building, while also creating fully dimensional characters with recognizable motivations and formidable moral decisions to make. I highly recommend these books, with the caveat that they absolutely MUST be read in order, starting with "City of Pearl".
Oct 20, 2008
Amy
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I'm definitely still enjoying these. This one irked me sometimes because it had a lot of errors, and I always notice those kinds of things and want to go in and fix them. At least one instance where they said someone's name but meant someone else, and several instances where they said one type of alien but meant another. Silly things, but the kind of thing that brings me out of the book for a while, which removes the immersion.
Nov 22, 2010
Kimm
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I enjoyed this book (and the series) a great deal. My only complaint is that the copy editor did a horrible job. There are many errors throughout the book. The worst error I saw was at one point they were on Umeh which is the Isenj planet and there is a slip up in mentioned the Bezeri standing there which is an alien race from Bezer'ej that has no way of even getting to Umeh. That should have been caught.
Apr 13, 2008
Rift
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Wess'har War #5. Good reading. At the end of this book, I'm just not sure how the ending of this series can be a happy one... I'm pretty sure it'll have to end by killing everyone off, including all the humans on earth. So, I am very interested in reading the last book of the series, just to see how it goes.
Jan 23, 2008
Lawrence
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blah blah blah. Again, a novel in a series in which the first book (and even the second) are compelling, but the story takes too many twists and dilutes the original tension and themes. I am halfway through this book, and not sure I will complete it.
Update: I put it down, and will sell it back to bookmans.
Update: I put it down, and will sell it back to bookmans.
Nov 20, 2010
Celia
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I really enjoyed this fifth book in the series - the storyline on Bezer'ej with Lindsey is fascinating and horrifying. Shan and her husbands are fabulous as usual, and I love their relationship - all the dynamics between the characters in this series are really well done.
Re-read - November 2010
Re-read - November 2010
Jan 11, 2010
Ryan
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Traviss came back with some action in Ally. This is my favorite of the series after City of Pearl. The tension really builds and I can't wait to read Judge.
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