The Skinner
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On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet revealed to him; Erlin, searching for Ambel -- the ancient sea captain who can teach her how to live; and Sable Keech, on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for 700 years. This remote world is mostly ocean, and it is a rare visitor who ventures beyond the safety of the island Dome. Outside it, only the native Hoopers dare risk the voracious appetites of the planet's wildlife. But somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop -- and Keech will not rest until he brings this legendary renegade to justice for hideous crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars.
While Keech is discovering that Hoop is now a monster -- his body and head living apart from each other -- Janer is bewildered by a place where the native inhabitants just will not die and angry when he finally learns the Hive mind's intentions for him. Meanwhile, Erlin thinks she has plenty of time to find the answers she seeks, but could not be more wrong. For one of the most brutal of the alien Prador is about to pay the planet a surreptitious visit, intent on exterminating all remaining witnesses to his wartime atrocities. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death.
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There was a really good and interesting story in this but there were just so many characters so that I couldn't process them all so I kept skipping chunks of parts of less relevant characters and when they became more important later on I didn't know what's going on anymore. What I was able to follow was great, though. There were characters which parts I really liked and if this book just focused on only a few points of view I might have actually loved it. But the way it was it just increasingly confused me. I liked the ideas and concepts of this world and the plot but there was too much going on for me. I had fun reading it and it was a pageturner is some way, so if you don't mind a ridiculous amount of characters you might like it more than I do.
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On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet revealed to him; Erlin, searching for Ambel -- the ancient sea captain who can teach her how to live; and Sable Keech, on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for 700 years. This remote world is mostly ocean, and it is a rare visitor who ventures beyond the safety of the island Dome. Outside it, only the native Hoopers dare risk the voracious appetites of the planet's wildlife. But somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop -- and Keech will not rest until he brings this legendary renegade to justice for hideous crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars.
While Keech is discovering that Hoop is now a monster -- his body and head living apart from each other -- Janer is bewildered by a place where the native inhabitants just will not die and angry when he finally learns the Hive mind's intentions for him. Meanwhile, Erlin thinks she has plenty of time to find the answers she seeks, but could not be more wrong. For one of the most brutal of the alien Prador is about to pay the planet a surreptitious visit, intent on exterminating all remaining witnesses to his wartime atrocities. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death.
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There was a really good and interesting story in this but there were just so many characters so that I couldn't process them all so I kept skipping chunks of parts of less relevant characters and when they became more important later on I didn't know what's going on anymore. What I was able to follow was great, though. There were characters which parts I really liked and if this book just focused on only a few points of view I might have actually loved it. But the way it was it just increasingly confused me. I liked the ideas and concepts of this world and the plot but there was too much going on for me. I had fun reading it and it was a pageturner is some way, so if you don't mind a ridiculous amount of characters you might like it more than I do.