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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - March 2025
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 16:32:31 -0400
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On 4/2/25 11:44 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vshefb$3pfuv$1@dont-email.me>,
> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Highlights and Lowlights - March 2025
>>
>>
>> ( +++ ) The Emperor’s Wolves - Sagara [Wolves of Elantra #1]
>> This is a very interesting prequel showing how Severn became one of the
>> Emperor’s Wolves, including that it illuminates how Severn
> gained a lot of his knowledge and skills.
> 
> I keep saying I need to get back this series and not doing it...

This one is the first in a side series, the second one ("Sword and 
Shadow") being published in 2022.

She also started a side series about the Academia, first one coming out 
in 2023 ("Shards of Glass"), and the second one scheduled to come out in 
May 2025.

I expect "Shards of Glass" will be the next Elantra book I read.



>>
>> ( +++ ) Sweep With Me - Andrews [Innkeeper Chronicles Novella - maybe
>> entry “4.5”?]
>> Fun like the others in this series, this one is set on Earth at the
>> Gertrude Hunt Inn, featuring Dina and Sean and some of the other regular
>> characters. Sean is now a co-Innkeeper with Dina. As with most of these
>> stories, powerful/dangerous guests arrive with various agendas and bring
>> various difficulties with them, and Dina and Sean have to use a
>> combination of power, perceptiveness, knowledge, and cleverness to keep
>> everyone safe. This is not to imply these stories all feel the same -
>> the Andrews team is excellent at introducing new characters, races,
>> twists, problems, etc.
> 
> Looking back I see I thought the resolution of this one was a bit
> weak though it was very entertaining up to that point (philosophical
> space chickens!).  I guess we will not get any new ones in the forseeable
> future, though there is apparently a manga adaption.
> 

Oh yes, the philosophical space chickens were a hoot. I agree that the 
resolution could have been more satisfying, but I enjoyed the novella 
nonetheless.


<snip>
> 
>> ( +++ 1/2) Salvage Right - Lee & Miller [Liaden #25]
>> This one is totally focused on Jen Sin and the Tensori Light station
>> that had crept into our universe to enslave and destroy. Tocohl and
>> other AIs also have huge roles, as do Tolly & Haz, Anthora & Ren Zel,
>> and Theo & co. The main mission is to refurbish the station, make sure
>> there are no remnants of the original Tensori Light in any of the
>> programming, and open up the station as a Liaden trading post in a
>> region that sorely needs it. Very interesting twists and turns throughout.
> 
> Looking forward to this one as I really enjoyed _Accepting The Lance_.
> I hope things work out for Tocohl who kind of got birthed and then
> stuck in a bad (non-piloting) situation for a pilot as I recall.
> 

Yeah, I enjoyed this one very nearly as much as I enjoyed Accepting the 
Lance.

Tony