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Treecat Wars (2013)

by David Weber(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1451639333 (ISBN13: 9781451639339)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Baen

series

Honorverse: Stephanie Harrington

review 1: Summary (from Goodreads):New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult Series. Book Three by international writing phenomenon David Weber. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seeks to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans."Treecat Wars" brings back good memories of the many young adult science fiction books of my youth. "Two young settlers on a pioneer planet..." makes me think of many of the classics Robert A. Heinlein. When you mix in the "intelligent alien treecats" and the "unscrupulous humans" my mind turns to Andre Norton's work. In both cases this is a good thing. Both authors helped to mold my love of science fiction. I have seen David Weber's name on numerous books but never tried his... more fiction. Jane Lindskold's byline appeared on her collaborations with the great Roger Zelazny. I figured I was in for a treat.I found this to be a solid entry into the science fiction YA field. The authors did a good job of developing the characters. I was puzzled by the title. I thought the war would play a bigger part in the story. As this is book 3 in the series, I was worried that I would be lost. Weber and Lindskold filled the reader in while keeping the story moving. I had no problem following the story. The story impressed me enough that I will go back and read the first two books in the series.If you are in the mood for a good old time Norton style book, I recommend picking up "Treecat Wars".
review 2: I'm not going to be writing a formal review for this one, because I had to read it but never would have picked it up otherwise. Much as I love cats, the whole science fiction alien cat thing really didn't hold much appeal and still doesn't. Whenever the roving third person limited POV went to the treecats, I was soooo bored.Actually, I was bored for the first half of the book. I didn't even read the first two books in the series and there was still so much recapping that I was going "I get it. Stephanie's brilliant and the fire's sucked last season. CAN WE MOVE THE FUCK ON?" If I'd read the previous two, I probably would have been tempted to throw my iPod across the room.The book did get more interesting along the way, particularly due to the non-HEA romance. However, the book hardly had any real conflict. There was set up of bad guys, who would occasionally have a POV chapter and laugh evilly about what they would do to the meddling kids, but all the bad guys actually did was help the kids and so not all that effective or scary. This might play into why the book wasn't interesting.Also, though I get why it happened, it's like Russian lit up in this book with how many names the characters have, since they all have a treecat name and a human name. But, for all that, both cultures refer to their kind of creature as 'people' rather than having different words for it, which is not confusing at all. And if I have to hear the term 'mindglow' one more time, I may throw something.I will say, though, that this is the most I've ever liked Khristine Hvam's narration. That could be due to the fact that I didn't much care about the book, but I was still more impressed with her than I was in either Reboot or Days of Blood & Starlight. less

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