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Title: Endurance in more ways than one!
Review: Taking up from the cliffhanger of the previous book, sees the increasingly superhuman (and inhuman) Cherijo enslaved, hated by her fellow slaves and back to square one in her relationship with Duncan. Viehl writes as compellingly as ever but the story turns out to follow an increasingly violent and monotonous pattern of plucky defiance followed by punishment and torture interspersed with the good Doc saving all and sundry in the Medlab. Chojero appears increasingly dour and embittered and the lovely humour that leavened Stardoc is largely missing, apart from a brief subplot with 2 alien teenagers. The good Doc has little to do apart from fend off her various suitors or torturers. I do hope the next book has a lighter touch, but at least this one did not end in a cliffhanger!
