Chanur’s Venture by C.J. Cherryh
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The first book in this series was ok. I wasn’t a huge fan of the writing style, but the story was not without interest. This picks up two years after the event of the previous book. It finished with an open end and apparently forms a trilogy with the next two books, with one major story arc. I will not be picking up the next book.
The story did not grab me at all, I really didn’t care what happens next. The characters stayed one-dimensional and lifeless for me, with the exception of Pyanfar and her husband Khym. I did like him and I would very much have liked to see his character and his position in Hani society explored more.
Great idea to explore the difficulties of communication between different species. You do not get to read about that very much in SciFi or at least not to this extent. But the pidgin they used here really got on my nerves pretty quickly.
So, I think I am pretty much done with Cherryh. The first book of the Foreigner series didn’t appeal to me either. Great ideas, but her writing just isn’t for me.
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