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Pratchett, Merry Gentry and Sholan Alliance

samvara: Photo of Modesty Blaise with text "All this and brains as well" (Default)
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 01:38 pm
I have been reading, just haven't been reviewing. I've also been comfort reading.
  • Wintersmith, Making Money and I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett. The first and last are Tiffany Aching books who I am still very fond of and I enjoyed her continuing adventures. I particularly liked the bad Don't Pay the Ferryman joke. Making Money follows on from Going Postal and was fun.
  • A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral's Kiss, A Lick of Frost, Swallowing Darkness and  Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton. Re-reading and catching up while sick, good mindless reading.
  • Turning Point, Fortune’s Wheel, Fire Margins, Razor’s Edge, Dark Nadir and Stronghold Rising by Lisanne Norman. Re-reading in preparation for reading book 8 Shades of Gray that I now have sitting on my 'to read' pile at home. First contact space opera with a decent female primary character and a lot of interesting stuff about race and gender.
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The Sholan Alliance by Lisanne Norman

samvara: Photo of Modesty Blaise with text "All this and brains as well" (Default)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 09:02 am
1. Turning Point (1993)
2. Fortune's Wheel (1995)
3. Fire Margins (1996)
4. Razor's Edge (1997)
5. Dark Nadir (1999)
6. Stronghold Rising (2000)
7. Between Darkness and Light (2002)

Gah, this has so much going for it except for not being finished which is a CRIME I tell you. A CRIME.

First Contact novels. Carrie is a human girl on a colony planet that has been subjugated by an alien race and her twin sister Elise is a member of the resistance. Elise can get away with fighting the Valtegans because their telepathic link means that Carrie suffers the pain of any wounds.

Potential allies exist in the form of the Sholans who are searching for the people who attacked and destroyed two of their colonies. When Elise is killed, Carrie nearly dies but is saved when her mental link is to Elise is replaced by a mental contact with Kusac, a telepathic Sholan.
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