Book finished
Oct. 30th, 2010 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyLocal Custom by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Acceptable writing (*), and a fairly romantic story, but my opinion of the Liaden culture is that it's pretty wretched. It's not as utterly shallow as Pern books by a long shot, but there's a bit of the feel of two-dimensionality to it.
There are two more books in the anthology that I won a few weeks back. I suppose I should finish them but I'm not really all that enthused about the universe. I may go read something else instead, and if I do, I doubt I'll get back to this series. The book did have enough internal pull to make me want to finish it, but not enough to really make me anxious to pick up the next book, or even to keep reading past page 300 in the anthology.
(*) Except for the preface, "Here there be dragons" - I find it hard to believe that it was written by the same people who wrote the books themselves, unless they've got a damned hard working editor that just didn't get a shot at the anthology preface. It reads like a junior high school book report. I very nearly threw the book out before I finished the preface, thinking it was indicative of the writing in general.
Acceptable writing (*), and a fairly romantic story, but my opinion of the Liaden culture is that it's pretty wretched. It's not as utterly shallow as Pern books by a long shot, but there's a bit of the feel of two-dimensionality to it.
There are two more books in the anthology that I won a few weeks back. I suppose I should finish them but I'm not really all that enthused about the universe. I may go read something else instead, and if I do, I doubt I'll get back to this series. The book did have enough internal pull to make me want to finish it, but not enough to really make me anxious to pick up the next book, or even to keep reading past page 300 in the anthology.
(*) Except for the preface, "Here there be dragons" - I find it hard to believe that it was written by the same people who wrote the books themselves, unless they've got a damned hard working editor that just didn't get a shot at the anthology preface. It reads like a junior high school book report. I very nearly threw the book out before I finished the preface, thinking it was indicative of the writing in general.
