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Jaran

door Kate Elliott

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In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her brother, Charles, rebelled against them at one time and was rewarded by being elevated into their interstellar system--yet there is reason to believe they murdered his and Tess's parents. Struggling to find her place in the world and still mending a broken heart, Tess sneaks aboard a shuttle bound for Rhui, one of her brother's planets. On the ground, she joins up with the native Jaran people, becoming immersed in their nomadic society and customs while also attempting to get to the bottom of a smuggling scheme she encountered on her journey there. As she grows ever closer to the charismatic Jaran ruler, Ilya--who is inflamed by an urgent mission of his own--Tess must choose between her feelings for him and her loyalty to her brother.… (meer)
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This book was fine if you take into account the really outdated and 1990s attitudes towards gay people. I tried to read the rest because I had the omnibus edition, but the second book tried to explicitly tackle this in a cringey way that does not hold up in the year 2020 so I didn't finish it. The worldbuilding is interesting, the political intrigue is interesting. The love story is well-executed. I could do without the unnecessary love triangle because you know who Tessa is going to end up with it is obvious, but what are you going to do. Did it need to be as long as it was? Probably not, a good editor could probably cut it in half and it would lose nothing. It was well written enough that I was not completely bored and the timeline of this book is over the course of a year or two, which felt extremely fast. Am I peeved that the political intrigue didn't get wrapped up because it is a series? Yes. Am I peeved that Tessa didn't tell Bakhtian about the fact that aliens exist because she "thinks it will destroy him"? Yes. I feel like one book should be a complete story in itself, and I can't abide cliff-hangers. This book decided in the back half that it was really a love story all along, but I wouldn't describe this as being a romance. It is a space opera book with interesting worldbuilding, but I would say nothing that hasn't really been done before. Like if you read Shapechangers! by Jennifer Roberson it has the same vibe, but fantasy and ten years before there is a distinct "these are coded native americans" happening in these books. ( )
  kittyfoyle | Mar 15, 2024 |
I think I enjoyed Elliott's "Icepunk" books (Cold Magic etc) moreso as this one had quite a bit more scifi then I was expecting. I'm uncertain if I'll finish the quartet or not, but I can see why so many people laud this highly. It reads well and even now 20 years since its debut, it ages well. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
Competently written, unique, but dull as dishwater. ( )
  JimDR | Dec 7, 2022 |
I have read a few Kate Elliott books before and enjoyed them but this wasn't really my jam. It's a story of a woman who finds herself lost in an allien world and has to come to terms with this world in order to get back to her brother and the constraints of her life with him and finding that maybe a different life could be possible. Add to it some alien politics and some slightly dodgy rigid gender roles and you have a book that just didn't quite sit right with me.

I may return and read the next books in the series but I'm in no real rush. ( )
1 stem wyvernfriend | Sep 13, 2021 |
was a good fantasy novel intermingled with an OK sci-fi novel. I feel like the sci-fi parts serve to bind a bigger story together though and for the sequels, it'll be needed. overall a thoroughly enjoyable novel. I am also a sucker for Kate Elliott's romance and fantasy stories so that helped ( )
  morgan.goose | Dec 14, 2020 |
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Elliott, KateAuteurprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Burns,JimArtiest omslagafbeeldingSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her brother, Charles, rebelled against them at one time and was rewarded by being elevated into their interstellar system--yet there is reason to believe they murdered his and Tess's parents. Struggling to find her place in the world and still mending a broken heart, Tess sneaks aboard a shuttle bound for Rhui, one of her brother's planets. On the ground, she joins up with the native Jaran people, becoming immersed in their nomadic society and customs while also attempting to get to the bottom of a smuggling scheme she encountered on her journey there. As she grows ever closer to the charismatic Jaran ruler, Ilya--who is inflamed by an urgent mission of his own--Tess must choose between her feelings for him and her loyalty to her brother.

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