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Summary: Too bad she ruined an otherwise great book.......
Review: I love this series. I read Crystal Singer first, then Crystal Line, but didn't read the 2nd book Killashandra till last. At first I couldn't put it down ....... BUT then I was appalled to discover a totally artificial, forced, unconvincing plot turn having to do with disguise and "love with the enemy" that took up the whole middle half of the book and was so bad it has totally cheapened my experience of reading Killashandra. I don't know how in the world McCaffrey could have allowed herself to so badly detract from an otherwise superb series by this segment of her novel - it is really appalling! However the rest of the book and the series are very worthwhile reads......
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Summary: Too bad she ruined an otherwise great book.......
Review: I love this series. I read Crystal Singer first, then Crystal Line, but didn't read the 2nd book Killashandra till last. At first I couldn't put it down ....... BUT then I was appalled to discover a totally artificial, forced, unconvincing plot turn having to do with disguise and "love with the enemy" that took up the whole middle half of the book and was so bad it has totally cheapened my experience of reading Killashandra. I don't know how in the world McCaffrey could have allowed herself to so badly detract from an otherwise superb series by this segment of her novel - it is really appalling! However the rest of the book and the series are very worthwhile reads......
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I thought that this was the best of the Crystal Singer series. I love how Anne McCaffrey writes. I would recommend any of her books to anyone. They're wonderful!
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Summary: Enthralled...no pun intended.
Review: I was very impressed with the Crystal Singer trilogy - although I loved Pern etc, I always found them to be a little simplistic in terms of characterisation, motivation etc, a little lacking in maturity. I think Killashandra was a superb novel, but I think that all three of this series are best read as a trilogy...e.g. it's all very well to lay the warnings of memory loss in The Crystal Singer, and to feel the menace of such occupational hazards over the first two books, quite another to see (and experience, I guess) such crises in the third book. A unique trilogy, that made each element an essential element of the whole. Killashandra And Lars Dahl were extremely skillfully visualised characters (with a deftness in their creation I hadn't given Anne MaCaffrey credit for, shamefully) with very human strengths and weaknesses - never stereotyped in the sorrowful way of many sci/fi characters. Not to say they were always likeable! The singing trade was admirably conjured too....I'd appreciate response!
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Summary: History repeats itself. . . .
Review: If I could have given this book a zero star rating, I would have. I never made it past the first two chapters of this "novel." I'm not sure what got me initially, the boredom or the lack of any compassion for the characters. I have read a few of McCaffrey's other works and found them slow and lacking in substance. She has the same headstrong female lead character in every novel of hers I have read, Killashandra being no different.
I was hoping to find an intersting story to go with an interesting premise but was quite dissapointed.
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Summary: Another Smash Hit
Review: No doubt about it. This is a book worth reading. I have all of this series of books and wish there were more like it. The action and intrigue are great. If you don't own it, you really should.
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Summary: Science fiction at its best
Review: The first Killashandra Crystal Singer stories were in a series of sci-fi books that serialized short stories. The Crystal Singer story was expanded and the first book, Crystal Singer, was put out in novel form. I recommend you read Crystal Singer first as it sets the stage for this, a continuation of the story.Killashandra finishes her apprenticeship in the first novel as a Crystal Singer, a miner of crystal on the planet Ballybran. Crystal Singers are a special breed; they must possess perfect pitch and be able to adapt to the unique rigors of Ballybran. They mine the valuable crystal with its energy properties by singing in tune with a sonic cutter. The geometric crystal forms are sold through their Guild for high prices throughout the Galaxy to be used in power drives and many other types of equipment. Singing is hazardous work, though it provides some unusual advantages. After one of Ballybran's gigantic Mach Storms ruins Killashandra's mine claim of valuable black crystal, she must take an assignment that, again, has much more under the surface that meets the eye. She must tear herself away from the Guildmaster, her love interest, but finds that even though she is destined to lose him, another awaits her on a far planet. Fine reading and part of an excellent trilogy.
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Summary: A Brilliant book
Review: The way she writes the book, the thoughts that she shares with you, all make this book a brilliant read. The way in which she describes the love between Lars Dahl and Killashandra makes it very hard to pit the book down.
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Summary: The Adventures and Misadventures of Killashandra Ree
Review: This book's title is markedly different from the other two in the trilogy. Appropriately, I think, for this is not a book about Crystal Singers. No, this book is entirely about Killashandra Ree, as she discovers true love. There is also a conspiracy to be fought, but Killashandra seems too busy with her feelings to pay it much attention, and so does the book. :-) At one point I rated it 4 because it simply did not deal with crystal singers, the story I had been looking for since the first book. That story I found in the trilogy's last book, and that enabled me to look back at this one as a satisfying book, with a sound story and a sense of completion at the end.
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Summary: Fly with Killa !
Review: This has got to be one of my all time favorite characters in SCI-FI.
Anne Mccaffrey has a fine sense of detail without smothering you in them.
This book is eclipsed only by one other similar book, it's predicessor Crystal Singer. Buy them, buy them all.
Crystal Singer, Killashandra, Crystal Line.
Read and thrill with Killa as I do.
Ramjet
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