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Read 'Hunting Party' first!, Déc 5 2000
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The initial pages ramble as the author gathers all the threads begun in 'Hunting Party'. If I hadn't read the two books back to back I would have had to reread the first to know what was going on. The middle is solid and gripping, but the end, I think, sets you up for 'Winning Colors'.
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Go, Moon, Go!, Nov. 25 2000
This is probably one of the most satisfying books in the long series of the Familias. Though the plot unravels a little bit too fast and too easily at the end, the book is packed with action, full with non-related plots that intersect each other anyway. There is also a comforting sense of completion at the book's end, something which is often missing from Elizabeth Moon's books (on her series).
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4.0étoiles sur 5
Absorbing Space Opera, Oct. 9 2000
The first of Elizabeth Moon's Familias Regnant novels, _Hunting Party_, was enjoyable, but the second, _Sporting Chance_, is much better. It was, for want of a fresher word, gripping. It compels reading, it's very exciting, the character are extremely involving, and it has some interesting ideas too. Heris' employer Cecelia has noticed that the Crown Prince appears to have been tampered with: he's acting unusually dull. She tells the King, which turns out to be political folly. Cecelia ends up poisoned in a scary way: she is paralyzed, still conscious but unable to communicate or convince anyone else that she is not a vegetable. She has left Heris her ship in her will: thus Heris becomes a prime suspect. The story follows several threads: Heris takes a secret mission for the King, trying to find the Prince's illegal clones; while Brun and Ronnie, two younger members of the nobility who were "reformed" by Cecelia and Heris in _Hunting Party_, take action to get Cecelia appropriate medical treatment, and Heris' new employee Sirkin deals with a foolish lover who gets her involved in some very dangerous situations. The action is pretty much nonstop, despite much of the story being told from the viewpoint of a paralyzed, incommunicado, individual, and the resolution is solid. My main quibble is that the villains are too too BAD.
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