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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: (WFC) The River Judge  (Water Outlaws) by S L Huang
Date: 4 Jan 2025 22:20:13 -0000
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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>The River Judge  (Water Outlaws) by S L Huang 

So, I read this based on Mr. Nicholl's review, and I found it disappointing.
I felt like I was missing out on some of the basic story, so I read the
original Water Outlaws book.

The original book in the series is sort of a satire and adaptation of the
classic Chinese novel Water Margin, in much of the way that Bridge of Birds
is an adaptation of Journey to the West.  However, genders are reversed and
it is a woman martial arts instructor who is driven from her position by
an unjust official and is forced to join a band of female renegades and
revolutionaries in lands far from the capital.

I liked the original book and I'd recommend it but so far the other books
in the series have just seemed strained to me.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."