Foreigner Novels: Deceiver (Series #11) (Hardcover)

from Pferdina

This volume in the series (#11) did not feel like a stand-alone, the way many of the previous books did. There was little introduction or review, and the end was unresolved. I think we've given up the pretense that there won't be a future book. On the other hand, there was more action and less in...

from reading_fox

Not my favourite. The introduction goes on for too long re-establishing the situation left abruptly in Conspirator. The internal politics of which name with which clan on what bit of land, is too confusing, and the ending is even worse than Conspirator. Do not read this without the next book Betr...

from Phrim

This book goes deeper into Atevi politics, and really presents Tabini and Ilisidi as foils, with Tabini representing an official state power that can be severely limited by political concerns, while Ilisidi is more of a freewheeling power that can actually get things done. It's funny that Tabini ...

from Finxy

Review from Badelynge Writing a review for the 11th book of a beloved series, nearly two decades in the reading is probably not the most useful thing I could be doing with my time. If you've got to book 10 I doubt you are going to need much prodding from me to pick this one up. But I love this se...

from romsfuulynn

Well, if you haven't read the first ten you should probably start with those. Brlliant. As always, Cherryh makes me believe that I understand alien patterns of thought and hardwired alien emotions that are different from human.