Skyfall A Novel of the Skolian Empire (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Asaro Suzanne Weintraub Audible Studios Books
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Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Skolian Empire.
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Skyfall A Novel of the Skolian Empire (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Asaro Suzanne Weintraub Audible Studios Books
I'm rereading the series from "Skyfall" forwarded. I'm following the diagram in this wikipedia article: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Asaro#Saga_of_the_Skolian_Empire10 or 15 years ago I started with Primary Inversion and then read about half of the other books in the series--and I ended up a bit confused. I also missed several of the books including Skyfall. "The Last Hawk" book is not available electronically but I remembered it rather vividly when I read the second "Kelric" book: "Ascendent Sun". In summary I'm enjoying the series more than the last time I read it--plus this time I'm giving " Skyfall" and most of the other books I've read so far all 5 stars. "Primary Inversion" was, in '95 the first book published and received the lion's share of the good reviews. "Skyfall" came out 10 years later--but it is just as good as "Primary Inversion" and is now the highly recommended starting point for a now less confusing and also highly recommended series.
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Skyfall A Novel of the Skolian Empire (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Asaro Suzanne Weintraub Audible Studios Books Reviews
Love this series and all the books i have read so far.
This is the second book in the series that I've read, and it's the last. The narrative just doesn't move, nor does it move me. I think it's just a difference in gender perspective.
Okay, so I only got 20% through, but oh my god, this book was terrible. I had to read it for a scifi book club and I can't believe this [unprintable word] won a Nebula. The characters, dialogue, and setting are so lazily constructed. It's a science fiction bodice ripper with a blatant Mary Sue protagonist (she has glowing golden skin! literally!) who distrusts men because of abusive past relationships, but she goes to an alien planet and falls in love with the first hunky man who kidnaps her. Ew. Even though he seems like a kind person (despite the kidnapping), it's hard to believe that the heroine would give in to temptation so easily after her past experiences with men.
Anyway, the part that made me put it down was the "lyrines" or unicorns with TWO horns. Ooohhh such unique and "alien" creatures. And apparently this rather primitive society has space-age food that consists of brightly-colored spheres... probably because the author is too lazy to describe actual food. There are a couple of nods to Harry Potter in the descriptions -- she describes the candlelight, but you never really get a sense of the atmosphere, just little snippets here and there.
Maybe it gets better as it goes on (it did hint at some interesting technological feats), but the space opera part of this book is extremely tedious and doesn't give me a lot of reason to continue.
Asaro has a degree in physics and, like Asimov, has created a future world combining science, psychology and attention to classic emotions, personalities and dilemmas. A fascinating read....even the war scenarios which I usually skip
Catherine Asaro cannot make up her mind. I am sure from her point of view it keeps her from being bored. I prefer the science fiction side of her writing, but I admit, I liked this romance. It filled in some past/future gaps in the ongoing Skolian story and, unlike The Radiant Seas, was an easy read. But still the characters did not always ring true to themselves as described in other novels, especially Eldri. I had a hard time believing him to be so impulsive and hot-headed as a young man. The character's edges were not as hard and sharp as they were in Primary Inversion. The intensity of the Rhon connection that I felt with other Asaro lovers like Soz and Jai, Vryl and Kamoj, or Althor and Tina, was missing. This story is tamer. If this is your first time with Catherine Asaro's Skolian Sagas it is a sweeter, softer place to start. But my personal favorite will always be Primary Inversion. Forget having babies, I love it when the Skolian women kick ....
Since I accidentally read Schism first, this novel was partially like going back and filling in holes in a rug, but with reduced excitement since I already knew quite a bit who is still alive (or not) in the next novel, for example.
It has been great to read these two novels with the plot/character driven action; they are an appreciated contrast to the very splintered and disappointing last couple of books in Weber's Honor Harrington series. It's been sad to see the decline in that series; I'm done with it now and won't read any more.
I look forward to the next novel!
In this chilly prequel the extraordinary Catherine Asaro takes us back to How It All Began.
Roca, on the lam from her son Kurj, who's trying to ignite hostilities between the Traders and the Skolians while Roca's trying to prevent them, ends up on a low-tech backwater planet, Lyshriol (where part of story related in "The Quantum Rose" will take place), and the next thing you know she's carried off to a castle by the "barbarian" Eldrinson, who Roca quickly realizes is a powerful "psion." You don't have to have read any of the other books to guess what's going to happen next.
But this is a Catherine Asaro book and as always she can take the most hackneyed of situations and make something fresh from them.
The treat here is not what happens, or when; but how. That's where the suprises come in.
The last third of the book, which takes place mostly back in the high tech Skolian Empire with a bit of crosscutting, is emotionally wrenching and the climax is no bed of roses. As usual with Catherine, there's hardly a wasted word in the book's 307 pages (plus appendixes).
I'm rereading the series from "Skyfall" forwarded. I'm following the diagram in this wikipedia article http//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Asaro#Saga_of_the_Skolian_Empire
10 or 15 years ago I started with Primary Inversion and then read about half of the other books in the series--and I ended up a bit confused. I also missed several of the books including Skyfall. "The Last Hawk" book is not available electronically but I remembered it rather vividly when I read the second "Kelric" book "Ascendent Sun". In summary I'm enjoying the series more than the last time I read it--plus this time I'm giving " Skyfall" and most of the other books I've read so far all 5 stars. "Primary Inversion" was, in '95 the first book published and received the lion's share of the good reviews. "Skyfall" came out 10 years later--but it is just as good as "Primary Inversion" and is now the highly recommended starting point for a now less confusing and also highly recommended series.
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