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Alliance Rising
Finished Alliance Rising this morning! A few random spoilery thoughts under the cut.
• Knowing from the other books that all of this is the prelude to a generations-long war turns the entire second half of the book into such a nightmarish slow-motion train wreck. They're all so well-intentioned and so SURE they can make Sol and Pell see reason if they can just present it the right way. EVERYONE'S INTENTIONS WERE SO GOOD and that just makes it worse somehow. ;____;
• I really loved Abrezio! I was 100% expecting him to end up some combination of: brought down by a tragic flaw (hubris, naivety, cowardice, whatever), actually turning out to be a complete dick, getting assassinated, or causing the war himself by bungling the political situation ...
... and he didn't do any of those things, but actually turned out to be a competent administrator and a decent guy who got at least a short-term win out of a really crappy situation. The climax with Abrezio and the merchanter captains working together to contain their Earth Company problem was great. Also A+ use of Chekhov's Unfinished Warship on the mast there. :D
• I like how this book managed not to violate Cherryh's rule #1 that Found Family Shall Not Be Permanently Separated by having Ross end up on Finity's End.
• CLIFFHANGER OH NOES!!
So when does the next one come out, again? D:
I also really loved how this book gave us so much backstory on the early days of the merchanters and the stations, and made me a lot more interested in the pre-Heavy Time Alliance-Union history, which I never really was before.
I still hold out a tiny seed of hope that we will someday get a teeny Hellburner crew cameo in some future Alliance-Union book, since she's writing them again. Though not in this particular part of the timeline since they aren't born yet.
• Knowing from the other books that all of this is the prelude to a generations-long war turns the entire second half of the book into such a nightmarish slow-motion train wreck. They're all so well-intentioned and so SURE they can make Sol and Pell see reason if they can just present it the right way. EVERYONE'S INTENTIONS WERE SO GOOD and that just makes it worse somehow. ;____;
• I really loved Abrezio! I was 100% expecting him to end up some combination of: brought down by a tragic flaw (hubris, naivety, cowardice, whatever), actually turning out to be a complete dick, getting assassinated, or causing the war himself by bungling the political situation ...
... and he didn't do any of those things, but actually turned out to be a competent administrator and a decent guy who got at least a short-term win out of a really crappy situation. The climax with Abrezio and the merchanter captains working together to contain their Earth Company problem was great. Also A+ use of Chekhov's Unfinished Warship on the mast there. :D
• I like how this book managed not to violate Cherryh's rule #1 that Found Family Shall Not Be Permanently Separated by having Ross end up on Finity's End.
• CLIFFHANGER OH NOES!!
So when does the next one come out, again? D:
I also really loved how this book gave us so much backstory on the early days of the merchanters and the stations, and made me a lot more interested in the pre-Heavy Time Alliance-Union history, which I never really was before.
I still hold out a tiny seed of hope that we will someday get a teeny Hellburner crew cameo in some future Alliance-Union book, since she's writing them again. Though not in this particular part of the timeline since they aren't born yet.
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