I’m in the middle of reading this trilogy for the third time. I’ve read all of Czerneda’s stuff, and I think this is the best three books. She’s so good at weaving together plot and character development and science. And it’s really interesting science–a lot of evolutionary biology stuff.

I guess if I really wanted to find something wrong, I could say that sometimes the lines delivered by one particular male character  are a bit melodramatic, especially when he is trying to say something romantic.

But that is so minor compared to how Czerneda manages to go through a whole trilogy of really long books, juggling dozens of characters (many of them aliens) and giving them all distinct personalities with believable growth and change. I’m trying to write a single novel, with just a few characters, and I can’t figure out how to delineate one character from another. Something of this size and complexity, well, I’m very impressed.

If you like science fiction, read this. If you aren’t sure whether you like science fiction, read this.

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