HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Crystal Healer: A Stardoc Novel by S.L.…
Loading...

Crystal Healer: A Stardoc Novel (original 2009; edition 2009)

by S.L. Viehl

Series: Stardoc (9)

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
2424109,984 (3.97)2
NINTH IN THE "CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN" SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo's genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal's secrets before it's too late.… (more)
Member:MaxMacGyver
Title:Crystal Healer: A Stardoc Novel
Authors:S.L. Viehl
Info:Roc (2009), Paperback, 384 pages
Collections:Wishlist, Read but unowned
Rating:
Tags:Stardoc

Work Information

Crystal Healer by S. L. Viehl (2009)

None
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 2 mentions

Showing 4 of 4
*sighs* I do not like the turn the series has taken; but the written is still superb. ( )
  lesmel | May 23, 2013 |
Back on Joren after a failed attempt to track down the bounty hunter offering such a price for Cherijo's head, Jarn and Reever have to do some fancy footwork to shield the Trellus colonists from the Jorenians who'd like nothing better than to blow up the whole planet. And of course, since trouble and catastrophe follow her everywhere, it's not long before a crisis on oKiaf sends Cherijo, Reever and the crew of the Sunlace bolting to the rescue. Crystal is eating the planet, and when it consumes of Cherijo's residents, the race is on to find a cure.

Jarn and Reever seem happy together - but somehow I'm not getting the warm and fuzzies about their future together! ( )
  SunnySD | Aug 5, 2011 |
Spoiler Alert!
I picked up this book reluctantly since I am fond of Cherijo, and not overly enamored of Jarn. THe last two books have been entertaining, but my heart was not with Jarn--I missed Cherijo. So, I made myself a deal. I would read this book and if Cherijo was not back in this book I would not follow the series. Thankfully she is back.
The book is written with Viehl's usual skill and the story lines are great. We revisited a few characters from the past and met a few new ones, but for me the end was worth it. I really thought that Jarn was annoying, and a little dense, if Viehl did not have the skill of telling a tale I would have dropped the series two books ago, but now I must wait impatiently for the next one!I missed you Cherijo!

I would have given this four stars except for my extreme dislike of Jarn. Is that a fair thing to do, to not rate higher, because I don't like a character? Hmmm, pondering. ( )
  m4marya | Dec 25, 2009 |
In this twelfth addition to S. L. Viehl's riveting StarDoc universe, the author reveals her mastery of characterization in her legerdemain of Cherijo/Jarn/Cherijo, the now-you-see-her, now-you-don't title character. I would like to have rated this a five star instead of four-and-a -half, and I blame it on the rules of publishing that I could not. In a commercial environment where series like StarDoc "must" be limited to a certain number of pages, writers like Viehl are forced to squeeze imaginations worthy of Tolkien or Rowling into a hit-and-run version of what is truly going on in the labyrinth of their inner prose. And no, I don't personally know Viehl or her publishers, but have learned enough about the 'new rules' of publishing, and have read 90% of her available back list, so I presume to intuit what an epic she might have written if unleashed.

So, there is nothing wrong with Crystal Healer that another, say three hundred pages, wouldn't cure. I might as well go bay at the moon for ever seeing it happen, but my patience is exploded and I just had to vent. ( )
  Pandababy | Aug 17, 2009 |
Showing 4 of 4
no reviews | add a review

Belongs to Series

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
To live as a doctor is to live so that one's life is bound up in others' and in science and in the messy, complicated connection between the two.
- Dr Atul Gawande
Dedication
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

NINTH IN THE "CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN" SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo's genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal's secrets before it's too late.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.97)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3 7
3.5 3
4 16
4.5 3
5 6

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 203,239,863 books! | Top bar: Always visible