June09:
I forgive her some since this was her first book. It definitely is not where I'd tell someone to start out.
Characters: Only the main two were memorable. Took half the book yo be able to tell who they were tho.
Plot: Intersteller war. Really, the plot was rather forgettable. The universe was built up with tons of details though.
Style: Jumpy. Gave so many POV though that the universe really did come alive in the end. ( )

While reading this book, I finally made the connection in my head that "space opera" was the amalgam of "space" and "soap opera" -- it was not a reference to the epic and tragic nature of these tales. Nevertheless, an interesting read. The main chick was pretty kickass -- had powers, overcame a tragic past, was able to torture a powerful male into submission with her sexual powers...tho, not necessarily so much that last one. It was her psychic powers that beat him into submission. Ending was the kind that one calls "smart" -- the author deliberately avoided a happy ending or a truly tragic one, it was just rather bittersweet and somewhat realistic (if you can call the passage of psychic powers from one individual to the other "realistic").
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This was a long, deep sociological read about far flung interstellar nations embroiled in a war so deep and so entrenched that it became a deadly tradition that divided Humanity into two separate races. ( )

Quite the space opera, I really could not get in to it. Later on in the book, as the story progressed (particularly with the bits about the way the darker guy character got to where is is/was and how he continued down that 'ambitious' path, for example), it got a bit better. But this read was a bit of a slog for me. ( )

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