I’ve never ready a Timothy Zahn book before, though I’ve had plenty of opportunity. The plots have just never attracted me. I’ve only read one Star Wars book before: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, by Alan Dean Foster – possibly the first non-film Star Wars book. It was mildly interesting, Read more
I didn't find the characters engaging enough, or the magic intriguing enough, to draw me into the story, and without that, the politics just wasn't very interesting.
An effective fictional study of a few key lives in the history of an Ecuadorian coastal village facing pressure from Spanish colonists.
Handman is a very smooth, engaging writer, and while I didn't love the setting, the book mostly works.
There's no denying that Parker is a good writer, and that he's got this interesting character down to a T. I just wish he'd move on to U and V and W.
There's a host of clever ideas in here, but they're all mixed together in a murky mess, and none of them is properly developed.