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Title: Worse-than-usual McCaffrey; a very poor book.
Review: I rarely have such a severe reaction to a book as I did to this, not even to those by the redoubtable Ms McCaffrey, but this really is a lamentably bad book. Set in the same universe as the Ship Who Sang series, this falls far short of even the worst of those. The plot and characterization are about at the level I would expect from a McCaffrey book - thin to nonexistent. Unfortunately, this book also lacks the redeeming feature of most of her books - it is neither fun nor diverting. I usually read McCaffrey for mind candy, but this book possesses too many flaws (superficiality, racism, homophobia, lack of plot, lack of excitement) to commend itself even for this purpose. Don't bother to read it.
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