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Original Title: | Deceiver |
ISBN: | 0756406013 (ISBN13: 9780756406011) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Foreigner #11 |
C.J. Cherryh
Hardcover | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 4.28 | 1818 Users | 82 Reviews
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Title | : | Deceiver (Foreigner #11) |
Author | : | C.J. Cherryh |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
Published | : | May 4th 2010 by DAW |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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"One of the best long-running SF series in existence" (Publishers Weekly) continues with the second novel in a brand-new Foreigner sequence.The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over.
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Ratings: 4.28 From 1818 Users | 82 ReviewsWrite Up About Books Deceiver (Foreigner #11)
This book was very boring and made me drop the series once and for all; things just happen at a very glacial pace and I just lost any residual interest in the same happenings (well this time Barb and Toby have more central roles, but still...); when the series is done once and for all, I may go back to check the intervening novels, but not until thenProbably the most open-ended of the Foreigner novels up to this point, with no real resolution at the end and clearly meant to be concluded in the third volume. After all the distant intrigue in Conspirator it's nice to be able to see Bren actually interact with some of the people involved. I also really liked the way Cajeiri is developing. His scenes with Geigi in particular were really touching.
Bren and Tabini :3 We rarely see the Human ambassador and the Aiji of the Western Association together, but I've always been fascinated by their mutual respect for each other.Did I mention how much I love my new Photoshop brushes? They look so chalk-y, it's almost like I'm drawing on real paper! My Preciousssss Brushessss!...Ops, wrong website. Ahem! DECEIVER! The review (of the book... not the brushes).Well, what can I say, we're still stuck dealing with rebels, assassins and back-stabbing
I love reading stories about intrigue, where the aim is to outwit your opponents, not to overpower them, where complex machinations are set into motion and then clash with each other in unexpected ways, where the antagonists dance around each other with words rather than bashing at each other with weapons, but where a well-placed word can be as deadly as a swordstroke or a bullet. And C. J. Cherryh belongs to the authors who do this best, in particular in her Science Fiction (which I tend to
CJ Cherryh is the premier writer of what I think of as statecraft science-fiction. This is the stuff that occurs before the bullets start to fly that determines when they fly, how many of them fly and who they are aimed at. Its what goes on before Seal Team Six is dispatched, though we do get to see some of the running and gunning, particularly when things go wrong or as John F Kennedy used to say, Some dumb s.o.b doesnt get the word.Deceiver is the 11th book of the Foreigner series that details
Deceiver is the 11th book in the Foreigner Universe. All books are definitely linked to the previous one. That said if you have not read any of the previous books starting with Foreigner you might wish to start at the beginning.This is a good series about the people of a planet called the Atevi. Discovered by a human star ship in trouble the crew erected a station in orbit and began to communicate with the native people. Since the ship was lost and no way to return to earth the station people
As this excellent series continues with book #11 overall (the middle book of the fourth triad), Bren continues to be fully embroiled in multiple dangers, both physical (via attempted assassination), and political. Cherryh's great skill at culture creation and world-building is on full display here. The audiobook edition continues to be perfectly narrated by Daniel Thomas May.
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