Kibrika reviewed Jaran: The First Novel of the Jaran (10th Anniversary Edition) (Jaran, 1) by Kate Elliott (The novels of the Jaran ;)
Review of 'Jaran' on 'Goodreads'
Judging by the speed with which I devoured the book it was well written and entertaining. It was however a disappointment in that it starts out with our heroine, some sort of interspecies diplomat getting on a space ship. I got my hopes up that it'll be about space politics, humans being fundamentally different from the rigid aliens, all that. Instead in a few chapters our heroine got dropped into a tribe of horseriding sabrefighting people and started getting to know the men there. And it was somewhat cliche at that, with our main romantic interests being spitefull and willfull and whatnot (also, lithe as a predator). I was hoping that it'd be just a short interlude then I was hoping that at least at the end of the book we'd get back to the more interesting global politics, no such luck as I had forgotten it's just a first …
Judging by the speed with which I devoured the book it was well written and entertaining. It was however a disappointment in that it starts out with our heroine, some sort of interspecies diplomat getting on a space ship. I got my hopes up that it'll be about space politics, humans being fundamentally different from the rigid aliens, all that. Instead in a few chapters our heroine got dropped into a tribe of horseriding sabrefighting people and started getting to know the men there. And it was somewhat cliche at that, with our main romantic interests being spitefull and willfull and whatnot (also, lithe as a predator). I was hoping that it'd be just a short interlude then I was hoping that at least at the end of the book we'd get back to the more interesting global politics, no such luck as I had forgotten it's just a first book, so it ends with no global things getting anywhere near to any resolution.
