Neighbourhood Watch

Conspirator (Foreigner, #10)
by C.J. Cherryh (Author), Daniel May (Narrator)

The beginning of the next sub-sequence. Back in town, dirtside, sorting the mess that a revolution/uprising has left behind… 
As in the last book, the story is told by Bren and Cajeiri in turn. And Ilisidi gets to thwack her cane a lot.

I love Bren‘s (Cherryh’s) musings about the cellphone plague and about introducing new tech too quickly. And also Bren, realizing that atevi behavior is becoming more natural to him than human interactions, when dealing with Toby and Barb—it reminds me again of Shōgun.

Cajeiri tries hard, but repeatedly gets into and out of a lot of trouble. Those are some of the best scenes of the book. I am really looking forward to finding out what kind of leader he will become.

There are many action scenes in this one and it is downright speedy, compared to many of the previous books.

Progress report: (links mostly lead to Goodreads)

• Foreigner #1 ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆
• Invader #2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My GR review 
• Inheritor #3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ My GR review 
• Precursor #4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ My GR review 
• Defender #5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ My GR review 
• Explorer #6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My GR review 
• Destroyer #7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ My GR review 
• Pretender #8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ My lazy GR almost-no-review 
• Deliverer #9  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My review
• Conspirator #10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — just read
• Deceiver (Foreigner, #11)  — planned for Oct/Nov
• Betrayer (Foreigner #12) — planned for Dec/Jan ´24