Chanur's Venture

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Summary: My review of Chanur's Venture
Review: Chanur's Venture by C.J. Cherryh is a great add on to the Pride of Chanur. I can't wait to get started on the next book in this series. Which is the Kif Strike Back.

This is a true Sci-Fi book with space travel and creatures of all shapes and sizes. From the Tc'a, which are snake like beasts: "On the violet one, a huge serpent form, which moved and shifted restlessly before the waist-up glass." " Wrinkled, soft-leather skin with phosphor-glow in the gold, eyespots large as a fist, five of them clustered round a complex trifold mouth/sensor. The tongue darted constantly. The body shifted to this side and that, which Tc'a always did." All the way to the Mahendo'sat which is a dark furred primate like race: "And rounding a collection of canisters awaiting dock side pickup, she spied a dark-furred, all but naked shape: mahendo'sat-ordinary encounter anywhere on Meetpoint. But this one flung wide his arms. His eyes lit up, his broad mahen face broke into a charming grin that showed blunt primate fangs all capped in gold." The mahen that was just in the previous quote is known as Goldtooth, which he basically ends up starting the series of mishaps that happens to the Hani crew of The Pride. Hani are basically a lion like race, and The Pride is the name of the ship that this certain Hani crew led by Pyanfar Chanur travel in space with. This book starts you off at Meetpoint Station were Pyanfar is to have a meeting with her old friend Goldtooth. But after this meeting Pyanfar and her crew's situation got bad and then worse and so on. And to think most of their troubles are started all because of some human the Kif are chasing. I am going to stop now because I don't want to give away any more of the books story line.

But any way from beginning to end this book kept me in suspense with all the exciting things that kept on happening. But especially the part when Hilfy and Tully were taken. It made me wonder what would happen next. I think that the end of this book was quiet satisfying for a series book. I believe that any Sci-Fi reader would really enjoy reading this book. Thank you for taking the time to read my review.

Rating:
Summary: My review of Chanur's Venture
Review: Chanur's Venture by C.J. Cherryh is a great add on to the Pride of Chanur. I can't wait to get started on the next book in this series. Which is the Kif Strike Back.

This is a true Sci-Fi book with space travel and creatures of all shapes and sizes. From the Tc'a, which are snake like beasts: "On the violet one, a huge serpent form, which moved and shifted restlessly before the waist-up glass." " Wrinkled, soft-leather skin with phosphor-glow in the gold, eyespots large as a fist, five of them clustered round a complex trifold mouth/sensor. The tongue darted constantly. The body shifted to this side and that, which Tc'a always did." All the way to the Mahendo'sat which is a dark furred primate like race: "And rounding a collection of canisters awaiting dock side pickup, she spied a dark-furred, all but naked shape: mahendo'sat-ordinary encounter anywhere on Meetpoint. But this one flung wide his arms. His eyes lit up, his broad mahen face broke into a charming grin that showed blunt primate fangs all capped in gold." The mahen that was just in the previous quote is known as Goldtooth, which he basically ends up starting the series of mishaps that happens to the Hani crew of The Pride. Hani are basically a lion like race, and The Pride is the name of the ship that this certain Hani crew led by Pyanfar Chanur travel in space with. This book starts you off at Meetpoint Station were Pyanfar is to have a meeting with her old friend Goldtooth. But after this meeting Pyanfar and her crew's situation got bad and then worse and so on. And to think most of their troubles are started all because of some human the Kif are chasing. I am going to stop now because I don't want to give away any more of the books story line.

But any way from beginning to end this book kept me in suspense with all the exciting things that kept on happening. But especially the part when Hilfy and Tully were taken. It made me wonder what would happen next. I think that the end of this book was quiet satisfying for a series book. I believe that any Sci-Fi reader would really enjoy reading this book. Thank you for taking the time to read my review.

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Summary: worth every word
Review: Every title in this series is worth a second and third read. Especially to those who are already Cherryh devotees and have become blissfully familiar with the strangely comforting peculiarities of her various characters' individual pattern of mental processes. An excellent companion can be made from each one of Cherryh's books . Easy to let this author become a favorite.

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Summary: Average at best
Review: I can't understand why so many people have said that this author's works are "well written". Cherryh's style of disjoint, clipped sentances along with her lack of detail on so many subjects which are crucial to the understanding of the interplay in the political game she is striving to describe, make reading her books aggravating in the extreme.

That is not to say that she doesn't have some good ideas and that her plot is not interesting. She does, and it is. But it is so hard to read! Her character interaction in a galatcic pidgin english doesn't help things either.

These books are readable, if nothing better is around, but they could have been oh so much better.

Rating:
Summary: Average at best
Review: I can't understand why so many people have said that this author's works are "well written". Cherryh's style of disjoint, clipped sentances along with her lack of detail on so many subjects which are crucial to the understanding of the interplay in the political game she is striving to describe, make reading her books aggravating in the extreme.

That is not to say that she doesn't have some good ideas and that her plot is not interesting. She does, and it is. But it is so hard to read! Her character interaction in a galatcic pidgin english doesn't help things either.

These books are readable, if nothing better is around, but they could have been oh so much better.

Rating:
Summary: Average at best
Review: I can't understand why so many people have said that this author's works are "well written". Cherryh's style of disjoint, clipped sentances along with her lack of detail on so many subjects which are crucial to the understanding of the interplay in the political game she is striving to describe, make reading her books aggravating in the extreme.

That is not to say that she doesn't have some good ideas and that her plot is not interesting. She does, and it is. But it is so hard to read! Her character interaction in a galatcic pidgin english doesn't help things either.

These books are readable, if nothing better is around, but they could have been oh so much better.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Writing, But Where's the Ending?
Review: This book picks up about a year after "The Pride of Chanur" leaves off. From the very first moment, you're caught up in the plot and furiously trying to turn the pages faster and faster in order to see what's going to happen. But, then, after about 170 pages of extremely well written, tightly packed, emotionally wrenching, pages, right at the very pinnacle of tension, it ENDS! Aaaargh! There's no excuse for this except pure greed on the part of the publisher. This book should never have been published without its sequel, "The Kif Strike Back." I feel really bad giving such an excellent piece of work such a bad rating. But, unless you have the sequel handy (perhaps as part of the "omnibus edition" "The Chanur Saga" (which apparently ends without ITS finish)), I can't recommend you read it. If you've got the sequel(s), definitely read all of them. But, don't get just this book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Writing, But Where's the Ending?
Review: This book picks up about a year after "The Pride of Chanur" leaves off. From the very first moment, you're caught up in the plot and furiously trying to turn the pages faster and faster in order to see what's going to happen. But, then, after about 170 pages of extremely well written, tightly packed, emotionally wrenching, pages, right at the very pinnacle of tension, it ENDS! Aaaargh! There's no excuse for this except pure greed on the part of the publisher. This book should never have been published without its sequel, "The Kif Strike Back." I feel really bad giving such an excellent piece of work such a bad rating. But, unless you have the sequel handy (perhaps as part of the "omnibus edition" "The Chanur Saga" (which apparently ends without ITS finish)), I can't recommend you read it. If you've got the sequel(s), definitely read all of them. But, don't get just this book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Writing, But Where's the Ending?
Review: This book picks up about a year after "The Pride of Chanur" leaves off. From the very first moment, you're caught up in the plot and furiously trying to turn the pages faster and faster in order to see what's going to happen. But, then, after about 170 pages of extremely well written, tightly packed, emotionally wrenching, pages, right at the very pinnacle of tension, it ENDS! Aaaargh! There's no excuse for this except pure greed on the part of the publisher. This book should never have been published without its sequel, "The Kif Strike Back." I feel really bad giving such an excellent piece of work such a bad rating. But, unless you have the sequel handy (perhaps as part of the "omnibus edition" "The Chanur Saga" (which apparently ends without ITS finish)), I can't recommend you read it. If you've got the sequel(s), definitely read all of them. But, don't get just this book.