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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Writing a review for the 11th book of a beloved series, nearly two decades in the reading is probably not the most useful thing I could be doing with my time. If you've got to book 10 I doubt you are going to need much prodding from me to pick this one up. But I love this series too much not to want to just tuck the book away and move on without getting a few words about it out of my system. The politics is thick in this one. There's always quite a bit but this one seemed to have more than usual. I'm not much of a political animal so I'm glad Bren, our trusty paidhi, is on hand to keep track of the situation. Like the previous book, instead of the single Bren point of view we also get to see the world from the perspective of the precocious Atevi lordling Cajeiri. He's having a spot of bother with his new bodyguards who are showing no signs of forming manchi with him, that unquantifiable (at least on human terms) Atevi instinct that causes members of their race to form attachments. To their cost humans have confused manchi with the Human understanding of love or friendship, neither of which have any Atevi equivalent. Inter-species linguistic confusions caused the Atevi-Human war not long after the Humans first arrived. Peaceful co-existence was deemed too unstable and prone to further misunderstanding and the human survivors were ceded an island kingdom and a permanent separation from Atevi interaction. With one exception. Bren Cameron. He is the paidhi. A diplomat charged with interpreting all Human-Atevi contact. Things have moved on quite a lot since those early days and Bren is now paidhi-aiji. He's basically gone native, and become so valued by the Atevi high-muck-a-muck's he's been granted his own lordship, land and the loyalty of his own Atevi aishid (currently four Atevi bodyguards). Great characters, thorough world building, Cherryh's brilliant style of prose and restricted point of views make for fascinating and beguiling sci-fi. If you haven't tried a Foreigner book yet, do yourself a favour and go hunt out book one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What can one say about the Foreigner series? It never seems to end, but somehow you're almost never left completely up in the air unlike 'true' series like the WoT: unusually this one does end in a clear 'to be continued' note. As other reviewers have written, it's very much a 2-voice (more so than Conspirator (its predecessor) from Bren's & Cajeiri's POVs. The way Cherryh manages to evoke the latter's 'alienness', yet enabling the reader to understand him is simply wonderful. After reading Deceiver through (in one night), I went back and read ALL the series - I'm champing for the final in this trilogy now.
Cherryh is simply a GOOD writer, she grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck and never lets go & her English style is truly fluid)
Cherryh is simply a GOOD writer, she grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck and never lets go & her English style is truly fluid)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
An excellent book, a part of an excellent series which I am now re-reading for the third time whilst waiting on the next volume.
Each time I read this series I get more from it beyond the initial (superficial) pleasure I get from the initial romp through.
Buy it, buy the entire series or pester your local library
Each time I read this series I get more from it beyond the initial (superficial) pleasure I get from the initial romp through.
Buy it, buy the entire series or pester your local library
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Deceiver starts only a day or two after the end of the previous book, Deliverer, but I almost didn't buy Deceiver. Why? Read more
Published 12 months ago by The Tome Raider
Deceiver, another Foreigner success
I am a little hard-pressed to explain why the Foreigner series by CJ Cheeryh is so enjoyable and why I look forward to each new release. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Grumpybaldprof
Marvellous sequence of books!
This author does it, time and time again. The worlds she creates are perhaps the best of any SF author's writing today. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Hydra
Another great book from CJ
I have just recieved this new book in the Foreigner series and read it through at one sitting.
I will now go back and read it again to properly appreciate it. Read more
I will now go back and read it again to properly appreciate it. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mike
Deceiver
As always a great read. The Foreigner series is fantastic -- so full of insights into the human and alien psychology.
Am looking forward to the next instalment.
Am looking forward to the next instalment.
Published 23 months ago by C. R. Narraway
Deceiver
I must confess to being biased in favour of this author and the 'Foreigner' series of books of which this is just the latest instalment. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. Keith Lepla
Another gem in the Foreigner universe
Cherryh just keeps getting better - and the more I learn about the Foreigner universe and its characters, the more I want to know! The detail she puts into each book is amazing. Read more
Published 23 months ago by D. Slater
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