![]() ![]() ![]() One of the major themes of this trilogy has been who/what is sentient life and how vastly different species can coexist in harmony. About two thirds in, I started to get bogged down in the repetition, but Tchaikovsky ties everything together in a stunning conclusion that justifies the entire book. I had to pay close attention to the chapter titles to track who was narrating and when. The multiple timelines are overlapping, cyclical and repetitive. At points the narrative is a bit confusing. However, this book is not as strong as the first two. They are easily the best part of this book. Here again, Tchaikovsky shows off his world building skills in the development of the uplifted corvids. Living in disguise among the locals are familiar favourites from the first two books, Kern, spiders, an octopus, and the sentient virus, now calling itself “Miranda”, along with two new companions, a pair of corvids. Torn by her conflicting loyalties, Liff struggles to do the right thing.īecause there are strangers in town. Liff, a girl of around twelve in Earth years, hears voices calling to her, asking her to help locate the strangers in town. Rather than following an uplifted species through its accelerated evolution, this story is about a human colony on a distant terraformed planet, Imir. This book is a bit of a departure from the other two books. This review contains spoilers for the first two books. I highly recommend reading the first two books before diving into this one. ![]()
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