Mind-Speaker's Call

Another great story, though the over-description does begin to wear on me and I find myself skimming through sentence after sentence of cumbersome adjectives. The characters remain fascinating, especially the adept characterization of the large cats, ghatti. The main character, Doyce, becomes grating in her almost adolescent angst and melancholy - and I wonder if it's supposed to make the reader think of her as being a 'strong woman' who of course is therefore also unable to love, trust or believe in herself without almost constant self-flagellation. Still, the story is gripping and I do love the ghatti!

This book was Ok. Even though I've read both of these novels and will more than likely read the 3rd I do not find them 'great'. The main charactor in this book I find to be self-centered to a fault and drowning in selfpity. She usually has all the answers available to her if she would just stop and think about it but she seems to always wait until its blindingly obvious.

I'm interested in the story line. Space explorers/settlers come to colonize a planet a bunch of stuff happens and a small party leaves to find help. The rest learn to deal with things. Later on they find that there are 2 sentient races already on the planet. These books are mostly about the politics between a couple bands/nations of humans and the other 2 races. One a show more large breed of 'cat' seems to have created a symbiotic relationship with special humans. The other race has a tribe structure and are humanoid in apperance and generally avoid contact with others. show less

It was fun and amusing. A fairly fast-paced read.
Saw one of the reviewers complaining about too much self-centered whining - well, most all books are self-centered and can be interpreted as whining so I ignore it for WHY they are whining and what they are doing about it (or what the people around them are doing about it)

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/11868407