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City Of Ruins (2011)

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

161614369X (ISBN13: 9781616143695)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Pyr

series

Diving Universe

review 1: The second in a series of books about a woman that dives derelict space ships and is battling family and the Empire to find out the meaning of 'stealth technology' and how it works. I started off not being a fan of the way the writer wrote this but couldn't put it down over the last 100 pages. Most sci fi books downplay the inherent danger of working in space. In most sci fi books power trains just work (although some have actual science behind the them, or at least the possibility) and people live and work in space like it's no big thing since they've been doing it for a long time in most cases. This series of books goes in the opposite direction and paints a more realistic picture of how dangerous space can be, even at its most benign. I enjoyed the way the author d... moreescribes a mission and all of the safety parameters that are emplaced in order to make the dive successful. But still, the main character is a dour, no nonsense woman, probably because she is so focused on safety, that when she lets her hair down and the author breathes a little life in to her the book become very hard to put down. Looking forward to more in this series and seeing 'Boss' live a little more.
review 2: Because I had read a later book in the same series (Boneyards) before I read this one, I was already familiar with some of the characters. This book introduces the Ivoire, a "Dignity Vessel" from 5,000 years in the past, with its captain "Coop" Cooper, into the story line. The book is very well written, but the ending is a bit abrupt, perhaps because it was originally published as a novella in a science fiction magazine. No editing errors were observed, loose ends were tied up at the end of the book, and the story moves along steadily, in spite of a lack of suspense and action. less

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