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In a arise of polite war, Bren Cameron, a shining tellurian diplomat of a visitor atevi civilization, has left a collateral and sought retreat during his nation estate, Najida. But now he is trapped inside Najida-which has been surrounded by enemies- with a absolute grandmother of his ally, Tabiniaiji, atevi personality of a Western Association. Ilisidi, a aiji-dowager, is not prone to be pacifist and sends Bren into rivalry territory, to a house of a personality of a rebels.
Bren's goal is to negotiate with Machigi-a immature atevi duke who has never indeed seen a human-and somehow convince him to stop his antagonistic actions opposite a west. Is Bren a intelligent adequate adjudicator to stay alive, and not divide Ilisidi or Tabini, while also representing a interests of their enemy?
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3308 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-03-06
- Released on: 2012-03-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
About a Author
C.J. Cherryh has frequently seemed on both a Hugo and a Nebula Award ballots. She resides in Spokane, Washington.
Ignore a calm in a product outline on this page-- that looks like a outline of Betrayer (Foreigner, Book 12) (the prior book). Without removing into spoilers, I'll usually contend that we have high expectations of Cherryh's work, and she didn't disappoint. The tract is a healthy delay of that in Betrayer, picking adult a integrate of weeks later. Bren Cameron, tellurian diplomat on a visitor universe of a atevi, continues his negotiations with Machigi, duke of a Marid, on interest of a aiji-dowager, Ilisidi, and Cajeiri, a aiji's son, is behind in a Bu'Javid, confronting a pierce to his father's (finally) renovated apartment. There are few surprises in Bren's early activities. Cajeiri, on a other hand, isn't looking brazen to a move, as a glance he's had looks waste and uninviting compared to his great-grandmother's richly rhetorical premises, and with no windows, even some-more restrictive than his stream room. He is suddenly given an event to select his possess seat from storage, that of march leads to a accumulation of variable consequences. In another startling twist, a immature successor indeed gets along with his new tutor. Meanwhile, Bren seems to be creation some swell in removing along with a notoriously human-despising curmudgeon, Tatiseigi. What could all this good happening mean? By a center of a book, we're saying signs of a spanners about to be thrown into a works. We can design a subsequent dual books to understanding with a domestic fallout from a events in Intruder.
We have finally reached a indicate in this array where it becomes formidable for new readers as against to merely challenging. As Ms. Cherryh creates a universe ever some-more perplexing and a plotting ever some-more baroque, a vast expel of vital characters goes by 350 or so pages in ever fewer days of in universe time. This novel takes place in underneath a week and consists mostly of custom filled meetings between a opposite players. we have adequate invested to find It engaging yet if not for a subplot of immature Cajeiri entrance of age we am no longer certain how many some-more volumes we would keep reading. The array cries out for an executive universe beam that can be kept out and leafed by while digesting a latest novel. Preferably one with family trees and good maps. we would gladly compensate hardcover cost for one such.
I'm a large fan of a series, so a newest installment was a silken review from a standpoint of being means to spend some time with characters I've grown to love. However, a book has some critical weaknesses in tract and narrative.
The initial debility is a rotating indicate of view. Ms. Cherryh is famous for her parsimonious 3rd chairman voice, yet segments of a book bound behind and onward between Bren and Cajeiri as a executive outlook character. In fact, a Cajeiri segments were unequivocally good done, and were inherently some-more engaging for a "almost-but-not-quite-human perspective" that is a executive thesis of a series. The dialog and account of Cajeiri's segments unequivocally seemed to constraint a racing thoughts and essential self-love of a child, and those segments felt authentic to me as a reader.
In contrast, a usually genuine stand-out impulse for Bren in this novel (so distant as exploring a human/atevi psychological interface goes) was a tiny stage where Bren and Geigi plead a inlet of friendship. Exploring this human/alien feel is so executive to a array that it was unsatisfactory to see several chances for a deeper dive, generally on a theme of atevi marital and family relations as they seem from a tellurian perspective, given aspect diagnosis that in past books has been followed by exploratory dialog or inner narratives by Bren that authorised a reader a deeper insight.
This array has always been during a best when exploring a subtleties of what it means to be tellurian (or alien) by those who are held in a opening between dual frames of reference. In fact, all of Ms. Cherryh's strongest work uses this as a executive authorial device (see _Cuckoo's Egg_ as a superb example). This sold novel in a array doesn't do adequate to try that executive device, though, and suffers for it.
With all that said, a biggest debility of this novel is a vivid miss of poignant tract development. The book is 384 pages long, and while we found it a discerning and easy read, a whole book felt some-more like a initial carnival for singular novel than a finish story in a possess right. There was no over-arching dispute clever adequate to fill a novel--rather, a whole story seems dictated merely to lay a substructure for some destiny dispute between Tabini-aiji's family and a Ajuri clan--or maybe between a boat and a atevi--related to a due revisit by Cajeiri's childhood friends from _Phoenix_.
I'm not during all contemptible to see a Foreigner novel that doesn't revisit a same "run for your life, they're after us!" tract segments that visit a array (some scenes with Cajeiri lift a same romantic pitch, yet unequivocally cover opposite domain from a tract standpoint), yet we unequivocally felt a bit cheated as a reader to finish a book though feeling like anything of romantic stress had been truly resolved, rather than merely introduced as foreshadowing.
Lastly, a modifying was usually fair. There were several spelling typos and apparent word deletions/substitutions that, while not egregious, interrupted a upsurge of Cherryh's generally glorious account voice. It was positively not a terrible modifying job--many new ebooks by other publishers demeanour like they were edited by someone for whom English is a second language, and who cruise unchanging punctuation as an afterthought--but it positively seems like there are places where someone relied on a abbreviation checker instead of indeed imprinting adult a calm while reading a *content* of a story. In short, a modifying felt rushed.
Overall, I'd rate a book during 3 stars: an beguiling review for fans, yet not a good novel in a possess right. That being said, Ms. Cherryh tends to paint on a large board with her story arcs, so I'd positively suggest a book to fans of a series, and to fans of Ms. Cherryh's poetry style. From past experience, I'm assured that a delayed start to this new arc will compensate off in after installments.
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7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Outstanding
By E. Dalton
Ignore a calm in a product outline on this page-- that looks like a outline of Betrayer (Foreigner, Book 12) (the prior book). Without removing into spoilers, I'll usually contend that we have high expectations of Cherryh's work, and she didn't disappoint. The tract is a healthy delay of that in Betrayer, picking adult a integrate of weeks later. Bren Cameron, tellurian diplomat on a visitor universe of a atevi, continues his negotiations with Machigi, duke of a Marid, on interest of a aiji-dowager, Ilisidi, and Cajeiri, a aiji's son, is behind in a Bu'Javid, confronting a pierce to his father's (finally) renovated apartment. There are few surprises in Bren's early activities. Cajeiri, on a other hand, isn't looking brazen to a move, as a glance he's had looks waste and uninviting compared to his great-grandmother's richly rhetorical premises, and with no windows, even some-more restrictive than his stream room. He is suddenly given an event to select his possess seat from storage, that of march leads to a accumulation of variable consequences. In another startling twist, a immature successor indeed gets along with his new tutor. Meanwhile, Bren seems to be creation some swell in removing along with a notoriously human-despising curmudgeon, Tatiseigi. What could all this good happening mean? By a center of a book, we're saying signs of a spanners about to be thrown into a works. We can design a subsequent dual books to understanding with a domestic fallout from a events in Intruder.
5 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
Sadly a array starting to throttle on a possess tract complexities
By Daniel S. Palter
We have finally reached a indicate in this array where it becomes formidable for new readers as against to merely challenging. As Ms. Cherryh creates a universe ever some-more perplexing and a plotting ever some-more baroque, a vast expel of vital characters goes by 350 or so pages in ever fewer days of in universe time. This novel takes place in underneath a week and consists mostly of custom filled meetings between a opposite players. we have adequate invested to find It engaging yet if not for a subplot of immature Cajeiri entrance of age we am no longer certain how many some-more volumes we would keep reading. The array cries out for an executive universe beam that can be kept out and leafed by while digesting a latest novel. Preferably one with family trees and good maps. we would gladly compensate hardcover cost for one such.
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
Slow start to new story arc
By Todd A. Jacobs
I'm a large fan of a series, so a newest installment was a silken review from a standpoint of being means to spend some time with characters I've grown to love. However, a book has some critical weaknesses in tract and narrative.
The initial debility is a rotating indicate of view. Ms. Cherryh is famous for her parsimonious 3rd chairman voice, yet segments of a book bound behind and onward between Bren and Cajeiri as a executive outlook character. In fact, a Cajeiri segments were unequivocally good done, and were inherently some-more engaging for a "almost-but-not-quite-human perspective" that is a executive thesis of a series. The dialog and account of Cajeiri's segments unequivocally seemed to constraint a racing thoughts and essential self-love of a child, and those segments felt authentic to me as a reader.
In contrast, a usually genuine stand-out impulse for Bren in this novel (so distant as exploring a human/atevi psychological interface goes) was a tiny stage where Bren and Geigi plead a inlet of friendship. Exploring this human/alien feel is so executive to a array that it was unsatisfactory to see several chances for a deeper dive, generally on a theme of atevi marital and family relations as they seem from a tellurian perspective, given aspect diagnosis that in past books has been followed by exploratory dialog or inner narratives by Bren that authorised a reader a deeper insight.
This array has always been during a best when exploring a subtleties of what it means to be tellurian (or alien) by those who are held in a opening between dual frames of reference. In fact, all of Ms. Cherryh's strongest work uses this as a executive authorial device (see _Cuckoo's Egg_ as a superb example). This sold novel in a array doesn't do adequate to try that executive device, though, and suffers for it.
With all that said, a biggest debility of this novel is a vivid miss of poignant tract development. The book is 384 pages long, and while we found it a discerning and easy read, a whole book felt some-more like a initial carnival for singular novel than a finish story in a possess right. There was no over-arching dispute clever adequate to fill a novel--rather, a whole story seems dictated merely to lay a substructure for some destiny dispute between Tabini-aiji's family and a Ajuri clan--or maybe between a boat and a atevi--related to a due revisit by Cajeiri's childhood friends from _Phoenix_.
I'm not during all contemptible to see a Foreigner novel that doesn't revisit a same "run for your life, they're after us!" tract segments that visit a array (some scenes with Cajeiri lift a same romantic pitch, yet unequivocally cover opposite domain from a tract standpoint), yet we unequivocally felt a bit cheated as a reader to finish a book though feeling like anything of romantic stress had been truly resolved, rather than merely introduced as foreshadowing.
Lastly, a modifying was usually fair. There were several spelling typos and apparent word deletions/substitutions that, while not egregious, interrupted a upsurge of Cherryh's generally glorious account voice. It was positively not a terrible modifying job--many new ebooks by other publishers demeanour like they were edited by someone for whom English is a second language, and who cruise unchanging punctuation as an afterthought--but it positively seems like there are places where someone relied on a abbreviation checker instead of indeed imprinting adult a calm while reading a *content* of a story. In short, a modifying felt rushed.
Overall, I'd rate a book during 3 stars: an beguiling review for fans, yet not a good novel in a possess right. That being said, Ms. Cherryh tends to paint on a large board with her story arcs, so I'd positively suggest a book to fans of a series, and to fans of Ms. Cherryh's poetry style. From past experience, I'm assured that a delayed start to this new arc will compensate off in after installments.
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