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2.0étoiles sur 5
One Word: Difficult, Mai 16 2001
C.J. Cherryh's "Faded Sun" books are very sophisticated & unique, but the writing is....well, DIFFICULT. Sometimes the text becomes boring or you lose track of what's happening and what is being discussed, so be prepared for HARD reading.The story is a bit garbled, but the basic idea is this: the "mri," a humanoid mercenary race adapted to desert environments, have been exterminated down to a scant hundred (or so), some of which are concentrated on a desert planet called Kesrith. Much of the story is told through mri point of view, and it is a bit confusing at times; the mri value honor, which isn't hard to grasp, but still........ The "regul" (see "Barlowe's Guide to the Extraterrestrials"), a merchant species, have also colonized this world. The book begins as a regul-human war closes, and regul prepare to welcome the humans. The regul ship "Hazan" comes with a few human passengers, which thankfully provides a human viewpoint sometimes, although that's not always more helpful. It also bears the corpse of a mri named Medai, and this is a great event for the mri people. The story moves nice and slow for some time, until the ship "Ahanal" arrives with the rest of the mri. A young mri warrior, Niun, is dispatched to meet with them. As he leaves, however, the regul destroy "Ahanal," "Hazan," and the Kesrithi "edun" (mri colony). Now with his sister Melein and an equally dispatched human, S. Duncan, they trek across the harsh desert-lands to recover a sacred object. So the plot is pretty interesting, but some of the concepts discussed are remarkably dull, plus you may be craving for someone to lighten up a bit. If I could rate it 2&1/2, I probably would, for the concepts can also be interesting, and if you could read the book carefully and thoroughly, you could find something enlightening, but it's just too complex for good reading.
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