Title: What happened?
Review: I love Cherryh's books. Hunter of Worlds is still one of my favorites, along with the Mri sagas. I've re-read Foreigner so many times that the binding is wearing loose. (...) Now, after a long wait, and eagerly pre-ordering from Amazon so I would get it as soon as possible, I received Defender. I read it in two days (had to go to work--it arrived on a weekday) and was incredibly disappointed. The human-atevi interface complexities, the growing depth of atevi and human characters revealed in the first three books, the warm humor and stern duty of Jago and Banichi, the wry tyranny of Ilisidi, the intrigues of Tabini and the delicious missteps of a human amid the atevi and their subsequent confoundment at times with a human to whom they owe manchi, are all missing. This book reads like a rough draft instead of the highly polished work Cherryh usually brings, especially to this series of dearly beloved characters.
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