| Re: May's (Mostly) Marvelous Literary Musings
*Big sigh* ...
I finally finished "Hammerfall" C J Cherryh. I like her style, although it is really not my kind of book. It was in the SF section at the library, but it's mostly a romp in the desert with warring factions, family troubles, opposing goddesses and the like. IMO it rambled on quite a bit with all of the trekking through desert storms and such. There is an interesting twist which has now more or less twisted my arm in to reading "Forge of Heaven" which is the sequel. It's told entirely from the point of view of the desert dwelling clans, in fact it's more or less 3rd person omniscient from a single character named "Marak". But there is a meddling going on from an alien race which is all I'm going to say so I don't over-spoil it. I may not get to "Forge of Heaven" right away, because I've now started "Child of the River" by Paul J. McAuley, which is also the first of a series, and I finally got "A Fire Upon The Deep" - Vernor Vinge, which is a sequel to "Deepness in the Sky", and I had been waiting almost a month for it.
- Z. |