Summary ´ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ☆ Sharon Lee
Three space adventure novels in the popular Liaden UniverseR series in one popularly priced Omni edition Local Custom Master Trader Er Thom yos'Galan knows that Liaden custom is to be matched with a proper bride and provide his clan Korval with an heir Yet his heart is immersed in another universe influenced by another culture and lost to a woman not of his world And to take a Terran wife such as scholar Anne Davis is to risk both his honor and reputation not to mention the lives of loved. Three books in here Local Custom Scout's Progress and Conflict of HonorsThe good Local Custom had some very cool very interesting culture shock and some really believable moments of miscommunication I also liked the relationship between Daav and Er Thom Scout's Progress is a SPACE ROMANCE about a MATH TEACHER and that is the best thing I've ever heard of That is someone taking all my favorite things and putting them in a blender And Conflict of Honors stars Lord Peter Wimsey IN SPACE Yes it does Oh they named him something else but whatever it is so very obviously him and that was pretty divertingFor all that good though the book lacked depth The Liaden Universe feels thin to me it doesn't have the three dimensionality of the Vorkosiverse or even standalone Peter Beagle or Robin McKinley The authors really thought out the differences in language and etiuette and went to the trouble of making a whole interesting alien culture and then all the Liadens eat muffins for breakfast and have cats as pets and that just felt sloppy The ships they ride in the spaceports they stop at all feel like they're created for circumstance to serve the plot rather than having backgrounds and cultures and reasons for existing independently I also didn't feel the authors were particularly good at introducing their world I read the middle book first and there was a lot that they didn't explain even in a uick sentence or two that would have given context There was some Mary Sue ism as well Aelliana isn't just a math teacher she's the math teacher who fixed all the space books Clan Korval is the best and the richest and the most interesting Clan Priscilla is a wizard I expect a certain amount of that in genre lit but I just couldn't take these books as seriously as the authors seemed to want me to
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The Dragon Variation Liaden Universe #5 6 8UseConflict of Honors Declared legally dead by a High Priestess of the Goddess and abandoned by her mother Priscilla Delacroix has roamed the galaxy for ten years surviving and becoming a woman of extraordinary skills Now she's been betrayed and abandoned once again left on a distant planet by the Liaden starship on which she had been an important officer But she's not alone starship captain Shan yos'Galan has his own score to settle with the same enemy and is about to offer her an allian. Somewhat formulaic plot for the first two but engaging characters carry the story along Some good examples of 'comedy of manners' in a science fiction setting