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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Among the best in the series, 25 Mar 2007
I was a tiny bit worried when I started reading this book. "Pretender" had left me a little cold, and I couldn't help thinking that maybe this series really was going downhill after the peak that was "Explorer", like some people have said. (Well, I did like "Pretender" too, but not nearly as much as some earlier books.)
Now I can say that although "Explorer" still holds its place as my favorite book in this series, "Deliverer" is a very close second. Of course, that might simply be because I love Cajeiri, and this book is very much about him. In fact, for the first time we hear another voice than Bren's: a very big part of "Deliverer" (almost one third, I think) is told from Cajeiri's point of view, presenting his thoughts on various subjects from Bren to manchi.
The only problem I had with this is that Cajeiri, who is having troubles in fitting into a world that is quite strange to him, feels in many ways like a human kid. (His motives and thought patterns appear quite familiar, you see, and don't guite feel ... alien.) Nevertheless, there definitely is an atevi side in him too, he's not quite your average eight-year-old human. He is delightfully resourceful, somewhat unruly (in atevi terms, anyway), and, well, just himself the way we're used to see him... so no, I'm not complaining.
Overall "Deliverer" could be divided into two parts: the beginning is slow and calm, the latter half explodes to action. Bren gets to do both some politicking as well as some shooting, and he too is just his lovable self. Even though three times three would be a good number of books in a series, I'm sure there will more. This book presents new problems and new questions that are not yet answered, and I'm quite eagerly waiting for the next installment and the return of the kyo that doesn't seem to be _that_ far away.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Always leave them wanting more..., 20 Mar 2007
And that's exactly what this does. I found the third book of the series on a book stall in a grey and thoroughly depressing small town in Northern France. I was in between trains and desperate for something to relieve the boredom. After the first chapter I was hooked. Since then I have happily tracked down the rest of the series.
When I came to the end of Pretender, I wondered where the story could go from there. At the most, with a classical happy ending lurking just around the corner all that could happen would be tying up the loose ends. Not a bit of it. I won't summarise the story because if you haven't read it you should, but when this book opens, all is very far from "happy ever after" for reasons which demonstrate just how much thought has gone into the creation of the world of the Ateva and the extraordinary culture which has shaped it. I have no idea whether or not we are going to get another in the series (yes please!) but the ending of this book is curiously and satisfyingly incomplete - just like real life.
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