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The author who introduced us to Drewcilia Qwah in Queen of Denial, now presents us RJ, an in-your-face rebel leader, in Chains of Freedom, the first title of the Chains trilogy. RJ, like Drew, is a strong heroine and leader, but unlike Drew, knows how to get her point across without colorful language. She is a woman of few words; her style of communication involves the use of a chain and blaster. When political prisoner David Grant ran from the forced labor camp where he'd been imprisoned, show more his only thought was of escape. However fate turns its hand, and as he runs blindly through the forest he literally runs into the one person who can help him in his fight against the all-powerful Reliance. RJ is the rebel Elite who's been raiding supply trains and sabotaging Reliance facilities so successfully that even the work-units know her name. With David's innocent enthusiasm and desire for justice and RJ's knowledge of weapons and warfare they begin to chip away at the Reliance armor. This is a fast-paced, character-based, science fiction adventure with real heroes, villains, and events that develop in believable and exciting directions. With introduction by C. J.Cherryh on why you s show lessTags
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I hunted down this book after reading several of Selina Rosen's short stories in some anthology books that I have – I always enjoyed her short stories, so I thought I would give one of her novels a try. I was disappointed.
The story meanders along for a very long time. It may be a conglomeration of many short stories – the annoying patchwork of font sizes and spacing in this book shows the problems of cut & paste gone wrong.
The characters in this book lacked any subtlety of meaning and were very one-dimensional. The book tells you exactly what one character is thinking and feeling, and then exactly what another character is thinking and feeling, and then exactly what a character standing outside watching the action is thinking and show more feeling... and so on. Even a character who simply walks into a room, and then back out again, never to be seen in the rest of the 400 pages of the book has a paragraph devoted to what they were thinking and feeling. This oversharing is at it's most unbelievable when it seeps into the dialog of a military man who shares his deep, true feelings about the person he is escorting with a person who is manning a road-block (and is about to kill the military man and the person being escorted, of course) – a truly surreal situation. This makes the book a very fast, if not very satisfying read. show less
The story meanders along for a very long time. It may be a conglomeration of many short stories – the annoying patchwork of font sizes and spacing in this book shows the problems of cut & paste gone wrong.
The characters in this book lacked any subtlety of meaning and were very one-dimensional. The book tells you exactly what one character is thinking and feeling, and then exactly what another character is thinking and feeling, and then exactly what a character standing outside watching the action is thinking and show more feeling... and so on. Even a character who simply walks into a room, and then back out again, never to be seen in the rest of the 400 pages of the book has a paragraph devoted to what they were thinking and feeling. This oversharing is at it's most unbelievable when it seeps into the dialog of a military man who shares his deep, true feelings about the person he is escorting with a person who is manning a road-block (and is about to kill the military man and the person being escorted, of course) – a truly surreal situation. This makes the book a very fast, if not very satisfying read. show less
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