A very sad point is Crispin's afterword in which she writes in 2011 that she wants to write a 3rd Tesa novel-and Crispin died in 2013, so unless O'Malley writes it on her own, we will probably never see this story. I have to say that something that makes me side-eye these books is the emphasis on American Indian spiritualism, since I worry that it feeds too much into stereotypes, though as best as I can tell, they do a good job with accurately depicting Lakota practices.Īll that said, I really do appreciate these books with Tesa and following a book with multiple deaf characters. There's a romance here, too, but while the pairing is fine, it really felt far too quick. There's also a new character that I liked a lot, though he's not introduced until halfway through the book. The invading aliens were really interesting, despite how horrifying they can be (how they create their original slaves). She writes the Starbridge series, and several movie tie-in novels (such as works set in universes such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and more). Some characters I didn't like actually were vastly improved in this volume, which was a pleasant surprise. Ann Carol Crispin (1950-2013) was an American author of science fiction novels. I can clearly see that the Crispin/O'Malley collaboration is the strongest thus far in the StarBridge series in terms of writing and plotting, though there were a few annoyances in the beginning ( Jib and his TSS and K'heera's general intransigence-for being diplomats-in-training, they sure don't communicate enough). I'm not sure that anyone made it out of this story intact.

It's also one of the most brutal stories thus far in the StarBridge series-we've had violence before, of course, but usually of the criminal or accidental kind, but here, in addition to war, we have some rather gruesome torture and enslavement, both implicit and explicit. Silent Songs probably presents one of the biggest challenges yet for the Cooperative League of Systems, as an alien species invades the world of Trinity, and Tesa and her friends resist. This is book is a direct sequel to Silent Dances, though taking place after Serpent's Gift in the timeline (due to two references).

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