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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - By Schism Rent Asunder
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Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765315014
ISBN: 0765315017
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2008-07-22
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: 2008-07-22
Studio: Tor Books
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The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them. Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.
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But the powerful men who run the Church aren’t going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world’s seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows, far too much of the kingdom’s recent good fortune is due to the secret manipulations of the being that calls himself Merlin—a being that, the world must not find out too soon, is more than human. A being on whose shoulders rests the last chance for humanity’s freedom.
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Now, as Charis and its archbishop make the rift with Mother Church explicit, the storm gathers. Schism has come to the world of Safehold. Nothing will ever be the same.
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Summary: A little less conversation, a little more action
Comment: I liked this book but pick up the pace. At this rate, it will be another 100 books before we make it back into space. The concept is wide open for almost anything and we are forced to spend our time discussing the painful details of how a flintlock works. I can tune into the Discovery Channel if I want to know the history of firearms.
I'm sure I'll read the next but I hope this doesn't turn into a never ending story like Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
If you want a quick, action-packed read, keep looking. If you want to sign on for the long haul, enjoy!
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Summary: not science fiction
Comment: You can skip this book and wait for the next in the series (or maybe the one after that). There is nothing in this book that makes it science fiction. Read a few pages and then skipped to the end. Suggest you doi the same, but do it in a bookstore and save a few $$
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Summary: I hate meetings
Comment: One of the things drummed into me at my writer's group meeting is "show" don't "tell." And that is my issue with this novel. But with a twist, because, for the most part, the author isn't "telling" what's happening directly. Rather, he is having his characters, in one meeting after another, "tell" what's happening in the novel, i.e. in other parts of the world. Page after page of this group or that group debating some event that happened weeks before and what they plan to do about it. And when something is done, again for the most part, we don't see the action, rather some other group debates about it later. There is some "show" in this, but the "tell" drags on and on.
And there is a "cast of hundreds" with speaking parts to try to keep up with (look at the appendix in the back.) I don't know how he kept them all straight. I know I couldn't -- at least not the Baron of this or that that really all sounded the same.
I will say this. In the queen, Weber has his first female character in all his novels that I can distinctly recognize as a woman -- beyond the obvious physical description. His other female characters are disturbingly male in the way they talk and act and have little or no interest in members of the opposite sex.
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Summary: By Schism Drifting Off to Sleep
Comment: While I really enjoyed Off Armageddon Reef, this book was extremely slow with endless expositions of political minutiae that did not advance the story or plot. At the end of the book, the story has advanced little, and I was left dissatisfied. Some of Weber's Harrington books are like this as well, so I hope this is not the way the series will play out.
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Summary: The Sekrit Sequel to Heirs of Empire
Comment: This was a Weber book. His personal story thumbprints were all over it. And it was totally hypnotic and I lost a ton of sleep to it, because the story just zips along. The characterization is about par. The story, well... I think if it occurrs on a planet far far away, we could maybe FILE THE DAMN SERIAL NUMBER OFF. Earlier in the book I said it was O HAI REFORMATION? Yeah, it is, and the Big Bad Evil church is not even disguised. They have priests and bishops and mass and all the things a person expects from the actual historical Holy Mother Church. Which was irritating, because although there were bones thrown to the good guys in the church, there weren't a lot, and it ended up feeling like an anti-Catholic polemic, even if it wasn't meant as such.
If you liked the empire-building in the Belisaurius books, you may enjoy this (different authors, similar feel). If you are interested in war-by-trade, it's not bad. If you wanted more Heirs of Empire, this is the series for you.
Avoid if you are allergic to anything that looks like religion, if you are bored by empire-building, or if you are vulnerable to losing sleep to books that are gripping but not great.
Will be buy the next one? Yup. But I wish I found Tor as easy to buy ebooks from as Baen. I buy ebooks, I buy paper books, I buy the same book twice, and everyone wins.
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