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I'm a big fan of the series, so the newest installment was a pleasurable read from the standpoint of being able to spend some time with characters I've grown to love. However, the book has some serious weaknesses in plot and narrative.

The first weakness is a rotating point of view. Ms. Cherryh is known for her tight 3rd person voice, but segments of the book hop back and forth between Bren and Cajeiri as the central viewpoint character. In fact, the Cajeiri segments were very well done, and were inherently more interesting for the "almost-but-not-quite-human perspective" which is the central theme of the series. The dialog and narrative of Cajeiri's segments really seemed to capture the racing thoughts and essential egoism of a child, and those segments felt authentic to me as a reader.

In contrast, the only real stand-out moment for Bren in this novel (so far as exploring the human/atevi psychological interface goes) was a small scene where Bren and Geigi discuss the nature of friendship. Exploring this human/alien milieu is so central to the series that it was disappointing to see several chances for a deeper dive, especially on the subject of atevi marital and family relationships as they appear from a human perspective, given surface treatment that in past books has been followed by exploratory dialog or internal narratives by Bren that allowed the reader a deeper insight.

This series has always been at its best when exploring the subtleties of what it means to be human (or alien) by those who are caught in the gap between two frames of reference. In fact, all of Ms. Cherryh's strongest work uses this as the central authorial device (see _Cuckoo's Egg_ as a terrific example). This particular novel in the series doesn't do enough to explore that central device, though, and suffers for it.

With all that said, the biggest weakness of this novel is a glaring lack of significant plot development. The book is 384 pages long, and while I found it a quick and easy read, the entire book felt more like the initial exposition for single novel than a complete story in its own right. There was no over-arching conflict strong enough to fill a novel--rather, the whole story seems intended merely to lay the foundation for some future conflict between Tabini-aiji's family and the Ajuri clan--or perhaps between the ship and the atevi--related to a proposed visit by Cajeiri's childhood friends from _Phoenix_.

I'm not at all sorry to see a Foreigner novel that doesn't revisit the same "run for your life, they're after us!" plot segments that frequent the series (some scenes with Cajeiri carry the same emotional pitch, but definitely cover different territory from a plot standpoint), but I really felt a bit cheated as a reader to finish the book without feeling like anything of emotional significance had been truly resolved, rather than merely introduced as foreshadowing.

Lastly, the editing was only fair. There were several spelling typos and obvious word deletions/substitutions that, while not egregious, interrupted the flow of Cherryh's generally excellent narrative voice. It was certainly not a terrible editing job--many recent ebooks by other publishers look like they were edited by someone for whom English is a second language, and who consider consistent punctuation as an afterthought--but it certainly seems like there are places where someone relied on a grammar checker instead of actually marking up the text while reading the *content* of the story. In short, the editing felt rushed.

Overall, I'd rate the book at 3 stars: an enjoyable read for fans, but not a great novel in its own right. That being said, Ms. Cherryh tends to paint on a big canvas with her story arcs, so I'd certainly recommend the book to fans of the series, and to fans of Ms. Cherryh's prose style. From past experience, I'm confident that the slow start to this new arc will pay off in later installments.


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Intruder Foreigner C J Cherryh Books Reviews

Cherryh's "Foreigner" series is a modern wonder a lengthy, complex, intricate science fiction series involving two races, one native to a far-off world and another an intruding human colony. Through twelve previous novels, Cherryh has carefully placed the human diplomat-translator Bren Cameron at the center of some evolutionary and, at times, revolutionary changes on the planet -- and off it.

But the 13th novel, Intruder Foreigner #13, is somewhat different. Taking place over a relatively short span of time, it sees Bren Cameron in a new role, negotiating an exceedingly complex, immensely ambitious series of agreements aimed at bringing peace among the native Atevi; aside from Bren, there are no human characters in this novel. The novel does not have the frantic, almost claustrophobic desperation of some of the previous entries in the series, in part because Bren has grown in confidence and skill.

This is definitely not the book to start the series; for that, read "Foreigner (10th Anniversary Edition)." But if you have been following the series from the beginning, this 13th volume is beautifully crafted, with crisp writing and finely drawn characters, leaven with some delightful, unintended absurdities. Highly recommended. And I can't wait for #14 ("Protector") and #15 ("Peacemaker").
I am totally hooked on the Foreigner universe, and this is only book 1 of (so far) 18 books in the series. Very well written with engaging characters that you really come to love as the story develops. I admit I have read much further into the series and it is a series I intend to own so I can read it more than once. The violence is not graphic and there is more "diplomatic" warfare than actual fighting. There is some mention of the main character's sexual relationship, but it is never gone into in any detail, it's more just implied, so I can't really say there's sexual content as such. The author handles the nuances of personal and inter-species communication masterfully. If you love good science-fiction that is more character based than science based, you will probably enjoy this series.
I feel quite certain Ms Cherryh is writing by the word count here. What a dull book. Compare this entire series to any of her Chanur books, or the Merchanters, or The Fortress in the Eye of Time sequence, or the Gate of Ivrel, or even Ms Cherryh's very early book "The Paladin", and you say to yourself, this woman can do *so much better*. Even the Mri books are better. It's the repetition that drives me crazy. The original idea wasn't that great, but it had promise. That promise has failed badly, and it keeps on failing. Book after book after book in this Bren Cameron series is built around familiarity, and I do believe Ms Cherryh rations her action scenes one per book. People have been buying these books and somehow have become addicted. Is it the predictable nature of it? Is it the "I can't wait till they have another cup of tea and don't talk politics" part? I, for one, am deeply disappointed in someone who used to be my favourite speculative fiction writer. This one was one of the worst. I was reading it aloud to my vision- impaired husband, who likes a lullabye at night, and I got so tired of it I would skip whole sections and he never even noticed. Ms Cherryh has succumbed to the idea of writing for money rather than for the joy of it. That is the only way I can understand her current writing.
I'm a big fan of the series, so the newest installment was a pleasurable read from the standpoint of being able to spend some time with characters I've grown to love. However, the book has some serious weaknesses in plot and narrative.

The first weakness is a rotating point of view. Ms. Cherryh is known for her tight 3rd person voice, but segments of the book hop back and forth between Bren and Cajeiri as the central viewpoint character. In fact, the Cajeiri segments were very well done, and were inherently more interesting for the "almost-but-not-quite-human perspective" which is the central theme of the series. The dialog and narrative of Cajeiri's segments really seemed to capture the racing thoughts and essential egoism of a child, and those segments felt authentic to me as a reader.

In contrast, the only real stand-out moment for Bren in this novel (so far as exploring the human/atevi psychological interface goes) was a small scene where Bren and Geigi discuss the nature of friendship. Exploring this human/alien milieu is so central to the series that it was disappointing to see several chances for a deeper dive, especially on the subject of atevi marital and family relationships as they appear from a human perspective, given surface treatment that in past books has been followed by exploratory dialog or internal narratives by Bren that allowed the reader a deeper insight.

This series has always been at its best when exploring the subtleties of what it means to be human (or alien) by those who are caught in the gap between two frames of reference. In fact, all of Ms. Cherryh's strongest work uses this as the central authorial device (see _Cuckoo's Egg_ as a terrific example). This particular novel in the series doesn't do enough to explore that central device, though, and suffers for it.

With all that said, the biggest weakness of this novel is a glaring lack of significant plot development. The book is 384 pages long, and while I found it a quick and easy read, the entire book felt more like the initial exposition for single novel than a complete story in its own right. There was no over-arching conflict strong enough to fill a novel--rather, the whole story seems intended merely to lay the foundation for some future conflict between Tabini-aiji's family and the Ajuri clan--or perhaps between the ship and the atevi--related to a proposed visit by Cajeiri's childhood friends from _Phoenix_.

I'm not at all sorry to see a Foreigner novel that doesn't revisit the same "run for your life, they're after us!" plot segments that frequent the series (some scenes with Cajeiri carry the same emotional pitch, but definitely cover different territory from a plot standpoint), but I really felt a bit cheated as a reader to finish the book without feeling like anything of emotional significance had been truly resolved, rather than merely introduced as foreshadowing.

Lastly, the editing was only fair. There were several spelling typos and obvious word deletions/substitutions that, while not egregious, interrupted the flow of Cherryh's generally excellent narrative voice. It was certainly not a terrible editing job--many recent ebooks by other publishers look like they were edited by someone for whom English is a second language, and who consider consistent punctuation as an afterthought--but it certainly seems like there are places where someone relied on a grammar checker instead of actually marking up the text while reading the *content* of the story. In short, the editing felt rushed.

Overall, I'd rate the book at 3 stars an enjoyable read for fans, but not a great novel in its own right. That being said, Ms. Cherryh tends to paint on a big canvas with her story arcs, so I'd certainly recommend the book to fans of the series, and to fans of Ms. Cherryh's prose style. From past experience, I'm confident that the slow start to this new arc will pay off in later installments.