ISBN: 0451459466
From Publisher's Weekly:
Viehl's (StarDoc) latest far-future space opera boasts un-put-downable action, more potentially lethal twists than an electric eel, a spunky yet vulnerable seven-foot heroine with retractable claws and a blue-skinned supernally endowed warrior hunk who's determined to remain a virgin. Young Jory Rask, veteran of the Terran big league shockball circuit, assembles her six ClanChildren of Honor siblings, half-breed offspring of Jorenian mothers raped by an assortment of alien hooligans and spurned by the warrior culture of paradisical planet Joren. Bent on avenging their mothers' honor, Jory and her spooky sibs join a mysterious assassins' training school of "blade dancers" on the planet Reytalon, where they inevitably distinguish themselves gruesomely in a Ninja-like kill-or-be-dismembered sequence of training levels. Viehl briskly incorporates Jory's adolescent anger and grief for her dead mother into the young woman's hunt for her father, Kieran, who just happens to have become a blade dancer himself. Despite the predictable, breathlessly paced plot, Jory's flip manner and wry one-liners cover a convincingly breaking heart. Viehl's strengths lie less in depth of characterization and motivation than in cinematic fast cuts, splices and tech effects. She also can yank herself back from the brink of the black hole of political polemic with another slashingly good sword fight or a juicily feline love tryst: plenty of fun, plenty of gore, probably plenty of sequels in the offing.
Wow, that? Right there? The above paragraph? Pretty much just said everything that I wanted to. Ok, fine, I'll give you what I thought too.
I really liked this book, even though I'm not a huge sci-fi/space opera fan. I read them and I can appreciate them, but I'm not the type that thinks "ZOMG!!! Sci-Fi! Best Ever!!!!one!!!eleventyhundred!!!!!!111!!!!!!" But you know, I'll read it and keep an open mind and all.
Maybe it's because S. L. Viehl is a very talented romance writer that this book worked so well for me. There was enough plot, enough character development and enough romance that I kept reading. It's pretty good. While it doesn't rank in my All Time Top 10 Best Books EVER, it's pretty good, and possibly one that I will keep in my collection.
This book is for people 16 and up (due to violence, mature themes and stuff like that), and for everyone who wants a littel romance in their sci-fi or a little sci-fi in their romance. Enjoy.
Oh yeah, if you want to check out Viehl's blog, you can do so here, at Paperback Writer.
Ps. I tried to find out the difference between space opera and sci-fi, and couldn't find any conclusive evidence. Sorry!
From Publisher's Weekly:
Viehl's (StarDoc) latest far-future space opera boasts un-put-downable action, more potentially lethal twists than an electric eel, a spunky yet vulnerable seven-foot heroine with retractable claws and a blue-skinned supernally endowed warrior hunk who's determined to remain a virgin. Young Jory Rask, veteran of the Terran big league shockball circuit, assembles her six ClanChildren of Honor siblings, half-breed offspring of Jorenian mothers raped by an assortment of alien hooligans and spurned by the warrior culture of paradisical planet Joren. Bent on avenging their mothers' honor, Jory and her spooky sibs join a mysterious assassins' training school of "blade dancers" on the planet Reytalon, where they inevitably distinguish themselves gruesomely in a Ninja-like kill-or-be-dismembered sequence of training levels. Viehl briskly incorporates Jory's adolescent anger and grief for her dead mother into the young woman's hunt for her father, Kieran, who just happens to have become a blade dancer himself. Despite the predictable, breathlessly paced plot, Jory's flip manner and wry one-liners cover a convincingly breaking heart. Viehl's strengths lie less in depth of characterization and motivation than in cinematic fast cuts, splices and tech effects. She also can yank herself back from the brink of the black hole of political polemic with another slashingly good sword fight or a juicily feline love tryst: plenty of fun, plenty of gore, probably plenty of sequels in the offing.
Wow, that? Right there? The above paragraph? Pretty much just said everything that I wanted to. Ok, fine, I'll give you what I thought too.
I really liked this book, even though I'm not a huge sci-fi/space opera fan. I read them and I can appreciate them, but I'm not the type that thinks "ZOMG!!! Sci-Fi! Best Ever!!!!one!!!eleventyhundred!!!!!!111!!!!!!" But you know, I'll read it and keep an open mind and all.
Maybe it's because S. L. Viehl is a very talented romance writer that this book worked so well for me. There was enough plot, enough character development and enough romance that I kept reading. It's pretty good. While it doesn't rank in my All Time Top 10 Best Books EVER, it's pretty good, and possibly one that I will keep in my collection.
This book is for people 16 and up (due to violence, mature themes and stuff like that), and for everyone who wants a littel romance in their sci-fi or a little sci-fi in their romance. Enjoy.
Oh yeah, if you want to check out Viehl's blog, you can do so here, at Paperback Writer.
Ps. I tried to find out the difference between space opera and sci-fi, and couldn't find any conclusive evidence. Sorry!
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