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I loved this. It was like Moby Dick but every other chapter was "Cetology". I took my time reading it and that was slow time well spent.

She's a hardboiled, cynical woman, but not a flat character at all, nor is she such a complete pro that if anything goes wrong, it's not her fault because she's such a complete pro. She turns out to be human, but not quite like you and I, dear fellow armchair reader.

I loved the descriptive, evocative meanders of the writing and the plot... "twists", I guess you'd call them.

Hmm.

«Charisma does not originate inside the person called “charismatic.” It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist.»

Cynic much? (I think I like it.)

SOOOOO..... You can "finish" a book, "rate" a book, and "review" a book, and they all generate entries (read: noise) on your timeline, if you're not careful.

Slowly figuring this BookWyrm thing out.

I had to read this book 2.5 times. Once at my normal pulp-reading speed, once again at a pause-after-the-letter speed (like: a 1-day pause), and then a whole bunch of go-back-and-re-read-a-piece-because-I-clearly-missed-something.

It's great. I do recommend taking your time on your first read. The plot is macramé, and it's really nicely done.

I think I did have a little trouble with the transition from being competitors to being in love. Seemed a little abrupt. I guess I still missed something important. Maybe there was implied stuff I'm too dumb to comprehend.

Anyway. Good book. Have a crack at it. Maybe you'll do better than I.

These two books are like season one of Firefly: somewhat of a tragedy there's not more.

I can see the author wanting to move on, but dammit.

It's really, really good.

WOW, so good. Anarcho-noir.

@nogoodnik

Just finished. Wow, good. Thanks for posting this book. 🙂

Meh. Pretty sure I'm not going to finish this series unless I really, really need literary junk food. And even then, these books have enough really bad bosses that they provide no escape in that dimension.

Weber's plots are great, but his humans are cardboard cutouts, caricatures.

"Only a fool, which she manifestly was not, could have failed to realize that, but it wouldn't hurt if he could convince her that he thought she was foolish enough to believe that he thought she didn't know it."

And finally, NEVER go up against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line! HA ha ha ha, HA ha ha ha!

Weber does a great job putting Horatio Hornblower IN S-P-A-A-A-C-E!!