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Deluge: Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee (The Twins of Petaybee #3)
InterGal Corporation has long desired to exploit the resource-rich Petaybee. But the planet and its guardians, led by Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili, along with their twin children, Ronan and Murel, have successfully thwarted every attempt by the Corporation to impose its iron-fisted dominion. Until now. With a bold move, InterGal’s military arm has dispatched an invading ...more
Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 24th 2009
by Del Rey
(first published 2007)
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diehard Petaybee fans who can't stand not to know the ending---and no one else
This trilogy---Changelings, Maelstrom, & Deluge---picks up the story begun in Powers That Be and its two sequels. Unfortunately, the writing isn't nearly as good. I found these novels hard to put down, but thoroughly disappointing in the end. The characters don't develop, and the situations of danger they find themselves in are all melodrama.(view spoiler)...more
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3.0 out of 5.0 stars
The very worst thing about this book is some of the situations that the characters are placed in. I’m reading sci-fi/fantasy so I’m not necessarily looking for total realism, but too much just falls into place for it to be believable. It was more like they were trying to quickly tie up all the loose ends that they’ve left hanging about.
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3.0 out of 5.0 stars
The very worst thing about this book is some of the situations that the characters are placed in. I’m reading sci-fi/fantasy so I’m not necessarily looking for total realism, but too much just falls into place for it to be believable. It was more like they were trying to quickly tie up all the loose ends that they’ve left hanging about.
The very best thing about ...more
The third book of the Twins of Petaybee opens with the Company Corps of the evil InterGal corporation attempting to take over the settlements of Petaybee. They have also arrested Marmion, a high ranking official and friend to Petaybee, on trumped up charges and have taken her and loyal members of her crew to a prison planet. The twins are also captured and taken to the prison planet where they manage to escape into the waters and in seal form seek help for their friends. Fortunately Sky Otter...more
Maelstrom: Twins of Petaybe does not even make an attempt at any sort of ending and continues without missing a beat in Deluge. Book 3 has all the same charms and problems that it's siblings have. It does pull its punches a bit as the children start to mature which makes the ending feel a little anticlimactic and flat. I did enjoy this book and this series but it left me wanting more from both these great authors and their truly wonderful and unique concepts. The Twins of Petaybe could have been...more
I thought it would be fun to read, as I started the series last summer, but it just wasn't all that great. The story was disjointed, and some of it got really ugly, which was unexpected for the general tenor of the book and a McCaffery story. It was a little like reading the brainship book she wrote with SM Stirling, but the story wasn't as good.
Nice finish to the trilogy. It is a little unbelievable that the twins do all this stuff as ten year olds, but that is the beauty of a setting on a different planet -- they must have evolved differently from us in more ways than one!
While I enjoyed the original Petaybee series, I'm clearly not in the target audience for the the second series (the target audience appears to be not terribly bright 7 year olds).
The twins of Petaybee attempt to rescue friends and immigrants arrested by the InterGal Corporation and transported to a prison colony. On Petaybee the Corporation attempts to arrest and deport all the colonists so that they can regain their claim to the senient planet.
Good book, but not as exciting as her earlier books. Seemed to be very much like the previous one in this series.
A little grittier than the first two. A good read though, and I like how it wrapped it all up!
The best in the series for me. Good plot with a great blend of dangers and a nice resolution.
Her writing is getting old.
This was good - great development of "situations" on Petaybee and the prison planet. Adorable cat and otter involvement! Interesting development with the aliens from Petaybee and return of the evil Dr. Mabo! Very quick resolution! I find myself wondering, however, if this could really be the end of the Petaybee stories! I hope not!
I loved the first series. When Ms. McCaffrey brought this back, I was happy, until this book. This book didn't do it for me. While I do like the twins and how they can shape shift, this one was crammed in with situations that were tedious and boring.
Finale, much fun, interesting ending. Kinda got the feeling that they might continue with the series, though.
Enjoyable conclusion to the trilogy. I like how they kept returning to characters introduced in earlier volumes but not always in a predictable way. The second volume in the triology was my favorite, but this one served up some treats too.
This is another series that I feel has gone on too long. It roams between planet-based and star station-based scenes and it's very hard to keep track of the younger generation. How funny - I read it exactly two years ago!
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In my opinion, hardly worth a read, which is unfortunate. I enjoyed the original Petaybee trilogy very much, but this third installment in the second Petaybee trilogy was quite a letdown.
An enjoyable and easy read. I could have finished it in one day if I hadn't had several other things I'd wanted to do.
I'm sorry to see this series (really a YA selection) be done. Fun for all!
I didn't realize that this was a third-book fantasy. My bad! :)
Fun but not standalone. Relies on earlier books in the series.
Purchased the Kindle edition from Amazon.com.
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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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