Rihannsu: Honor Blade

As I said in my review of Swordhunt - I'm very glad I only got around to reading this when I had the full series available (and for that matter, I read it in an e-omnibus which combined this and Swordhunt into one book, as they should have been all along). This book starts, literally, with Chapter 6 - it's the second half of the book that had its first half published in Swordhunt. As a complete book, it's not bad but not exciting. The characters - the Star Trek canon ones - feel just slightly off (which is odd, because Duane is very good at writing them so that they match canon and go deeper). The other characters - Ael and Arrhae, Herb, etc - aren't interesting enough to me to make up for that. It's a decent light ST novel, with lots show more of action - but it breaks back and forth between simple action and _deep_philosophical_bits_ that just don't work for me. I might like it better after a few rereads - I've read the first book in this series dozens of times. But I'm not sure I'll bother to try. show less

Definitely needed to set up The Empty Chair - the final book in the series - but of the set, my least favorite.

This book is the second half of the story that begins in Swordhunt. I strongly recommend buying them together, or it's going to feel like walking into Act 3 of an ongoing play.

Why can't every book be by Diane Duane?