The last book of the 'Duel of Sorcery' trilogy. With this book, the story just really fell apart. I strongly got the impression that Clayton was bored of the character and the situations.
Rather than developing the existing plot, she introduces something totally new - a different woman, on a different world - in a near-future scenario, fighting against both illness and a socially repressive, militaristic government. I got the definite impression this story was NOT written with this trilogy in mind at all.
But what she does is has Serroi (protagonist of the trilogy) ask for help in her situation, and a group of rebels from this totally different story come over to her world as mercenary refugees.
It's rather ridiculous, doesn't work as far as the structure of the book, and is non-essential to the story. General rule-of-thumb - DON'T change tack 3/4 of the way through a tale!
Ah well. What can you do?
Rather than developing the existing plot, she introduces something totally new - a different woman, on a different world - in a near-future scenario, fighting against both illness and a socially repressive, militaristic government. I got the definite impression this story was NOT written with this trilogy in mind at all.
But what she does is has Serroi (protagonist of the trilogy) ask for help in her situation, and a group of rebels from this totally different story come over to her world as mercenary refugees.
It's rather ridiculous, doesn't work as far as the structure of the book, and is non-essential to the story. General rule-of-thumb - DON'T change tack 3/4 of the way through a tale!
Ah well. What can you do?
