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[ellarien]

I just finished Cherryh's Conspirator, and am now very frustrated. Not that it was a bad book -- it wasn't, and I had a splendid time revisiting the feuding Atevi. The problem was that it ends on what -- if one is at all prone to getting absorbed in Atevi politics -- is a major cliffhanger, and I'll have to wait until at least late this year to find out what happens next.

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The whole thing has become a soap opera to which, to my shame, I am completely addicted. I read the book Sunday...

[ellarien]

But it's the very best soap!

Buses are not as much fun as mecheiti, though.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

True.

But the first book (so long as you disregarded the first two unnecessary parts and started with Bren) is one of the great alien contact books - there is a disorientation you don't find anywhere else, even in Cherryh, except perhaps Hunter of Worlds - and I like to rec it as such. Unfortunately, nowadays you have to mention how long it goes on for, that you cannot really jump on at any stage, and that the original alienness gets diluted...