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Still really enjoying this book, but I need something a lot more light after this one, and I'm kind of planning to reread some favourites to cleanse the palate a bit :)

I'm positively surprised about this book so far, yeah it is slow, as all the books in the foreigner series are, but usually I find Cherryh to have kind of a cold and clinical style of writing, in this one it feels way better, I'm not sure if she was writing different or I am reading different, but it's nice, and that's what counts.

I did quit reading this one about half a year ago because I got really enough of the sappy empathy bait start, it really felt like a cheap shot for no real reason. I was not a big fan of about the first 3rd of the book, but it got better as it went, so in the end it was quite an okay read. I think I will go on to the next one to see if the writing keeps on getting better, or at least stays on the level that it was at the end of the book, all in all, I don't know.

I had this lying around, the whole series actually that I got some time, not really expecting much of it as I already put it aside once, the part I read yesterday was okay enough, lighthearted mostly, and it seems like it was less sympathy bait for the mc at least, so I guess I will give it a try and see what I think.

The story is pretty good, the characters are pretty good, the writing is okay, but the thing that really brings this one down is that I really don't enjoy the MMC, they are manipulative, pushing borders, overbearing and just in general imposing and there are red flags everywhere, just keep away, don't do this is what goes through me eall the time in my head, and what is pictured as a good relationship just seems like a highway to spousal abuse city. Also it doesn't help that the whole relationship feels kind of childish, but, well, I'm not really thinking that even most of the romantic books I read will have a realistic relationship, but it might be that I've had a way better hit rate with what I've read than what I've thought.

This is a great book for me, the characters that we got to know in book one are clear and I already like them, so we go off to a part of the story that is built on comraderie and exploration, on being together, and not losing sight of what is novel and interesting.

The language parts are toned down a bit from the first ones, but it still managed to be a believable and interesting part of the book.

It gets a bit more spicy in this book than the first one, but not really much over the level of ya, could do with a little bit more of that.

I found it hard to put this one down, the characters just spoke to me, the world just feels so believable and lived in, it just really worked for me.