Rating: 
Summary: Fairly weak
Review: This book just isn't up to the standard of the other episodes in the BrainShip series. The plot and the characters show promise, but the polish and fun of the other books is missing. The main villian is absolutely flat and serves mainly as a blatent plot device. The various logic inconsistancies pile up until the plot collapses totally about 75% of the way into the story. I also noticed a large number of editing errors. "ass" instead of "ask", "hum" instead of "him", and so forth. Not recommended for anybody but a die-hard fan.
Rating: 
Summary: Okay but not along the same lines as others
Review: This is a good read, but not great. It's actually a divergence from the brainships theme, set in the same space (in fact brain-anything is hardly mentioned). Joat from the connected book is all grown up; she meets someone "smarter" than her and fall romatically for him (bip, boom, bang). Some friends get caught by the bad guys and one falls in love with the Kolnari. They meet some bad guys, some really dumb things happen. The plot wanders around; the book really doesn't end becuase the author likely had a sequal deal in mind. I mean, the Kolnari threat is trashed before the girl even meets them. Everyone in the book knows what's going on including most obviously the reader. Consider that as a female JOAT thinks of herself as "Jack of All Trade" and not "Jill of All Trade". Of "Jane" or "Judy". She even disses the idea. Unoriginal. Not too female. Male oriented.
Rating:
Summary: not up to snuff
Review: This is not a book about a brainship, it is a sequel to a brain space station book. While it was a little disappointing not to be about a brainship, it had great potential. In fact, it was really good until the end where it seems as if they suddenly realized they had to meet a deadline and quick wrote the last 10 pages, which of course made no sense. Bad endings are bad. It could have been a stellar book.
Rating:
Summary: not up to snuff
Review: This is not a book about a brainship, it is a sequel to a brain space station book. While it was a little disappointing not to be about a brainship, it had great potential. In fact, it was really good until the end where it seems as if they suddenly realized they had to meet a deadline and quick wrote the last 10 pages, which of course made no sense. Bad endings are bad. It could have been a stellar book.
Rating:
Summary: The Ship Avenged (although not really a brainship)
Review: This is NOT a brain ship story.If you like McCaffrey, you'll read and like it well enough. However, when I first read it, I thought it was a CHEAT. All the previous brainships were human minds and the stories related to the ship as protagonist. This ship is simply an artificial intelligence used to fake a brain brawn story with Joat, a character introduced in an earlier book. Joat is the main character and the story is ok, but I'd have liked it better if this had been about some way of getting Joat into a real brain/brawn relationship in spite of impossible odds.
Rating:
Summary: The Ship Avenged (although not really a brainship)
Review: This is NOT a brain ship story. If you like McCaffrey, you'll read and like it well enough. However, when I first read it, I thought it was a CHEAT. All the previous brainships were human minds and the stories related to the ship as protagonist. This ship is simply an artificial intelligence used to fake a brain brawn story with Joat, a character introduced in an earlier book. Joat is the main character and the story is ok, but I'd have liked it better if this had been about some way of getting Joat into a real brain/brawn relationship in spite of impossible odds.
Rating: 
Summary: Joats back, more mature, less nasty but more realistic.
Review: You gotta read the brainship series. They are all entertaining. Stirling tones down the
evil mutants and shows the potential for some reconciliation. Still some nasty folks to
contend with but off set by a new alien and a likable AI. Joat could be a good focus point
for some entertaining tales digressing from the brainships. Her confrontation with her personal devil is skewed enough to be reasonable. No skull sweat but
recreational reading doesn't have to be demanding, read it if you read the rest, you'll be
sorry if you miss it.
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