Habiku Smoothtongue corrupted everyone and everything that ever meant anything to Megan Thanesdoom--including Megan herself. But now Megan has returned, and she's not alone. Backed by barbarian warrior Shkai'ra's sword, Megan is ready to claim her rightful status in the world.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Cage,
By not4prophet (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The CAGE (Paperback)
I will pay "The Cage" the following left-handed compliment: it is considerably better than what you would expect from a book where the front cover shows a tall blonde in a chain-maille bikini and the back cover contains the phrase "...and left her with a thirst that only vengeance can slake." The story opens with the improbably named Megan Thanesdoom returning home to claim her trading company, two years after being betrayed and sold into slavery by her former subordinate Habuki. The rest of the novel sees Megan and her gal pal Sh'Kaira heading north along the river, fighting battles and gathering allies as they prepare for the final showdown with Habuki.As I said, it's not quite as bad as it sounds. The characters have real life, and Megan and Sh'Kaira in particular have unforgettable inner fire. We see psychological realism here, far more than you normally expect from this type of book. Megan struggles with the contending forces within her head; her all-consuming drive for revenge eventually pushes away all of her friends. The pacing is good, and the world-building is also above average. No standard fantasy fare here, as each city that the crew visits has a unique geography and social scene. The battle scenes are so-so. Some are genuinely exciting while others drag on for too long. Lastly, the lesbian sex scenes do not disappoint. The downside is in the writing, where the authors make a number of juvenile mistakes. First of all, clumsiness with the pronouns. The sentences and paragraphs get so jumbled that frequently you can't tell who is doing what. Secondly, the authors can't just refer to characters by their names. Megan, for instance, is alternately called "Megan", "Thanesdoom", "the captain", "the owner", "the Kommisat" and several others, often all within the same paragraph. Confusion reigns, and it takes longer than it should to sort out who's who. Finally the editing mistakes. Spelling errors, grammar errors. Get an editor already!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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There should be more like this...,
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This review is from: The Cage (Baen fantasy) (Mass Market Paperback)
_The Cage_ is one of the best works of sf/fantasy written in the past two decades. It is a tragedy for the genre that there aren't more novels like this one being written these days. Like the rest of the Fifth Millennium series (Mr. Stirling, Ms. Meyer, Ms. Wehrstein, if you're reading this, won't you please think about writing a few more for us?), it is set in a brilliantly crafted future world which sets itself apart from the usual run of post-destruction-of-current- civilisation settings by not being a cheap copy of the Middle Ages with a few odd bits of anachronistic technology floating about. Instead, there are many carefully thought out cultures, complete with their own languages. Language, after all, is necessary to completely developing a culture, and, despite what some irritating people seem to think, there are many people (especially three thousand years in the future:-) who really don't speak twentieth century English. And, BTW, all the languages of the novel are perfectly pronounceable. People who don't like created languages (especially the beautiful developments of Stirling and Meyer) really shouldn't read SF. Or would such people perhaps prefer the atrocious attempts of certain past authors to represent the language of post-nuclear America with strange phonetic renderings of Southron speech? I'll take Brahvniki over the Duchy of Memfiz any day.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A book set in the future after recovery from a holocaust,
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This review is from: The Cage (Baen fantasy) (Mass Market Paperback)
The book has a well developed plot, and does well creating a medieval setting with all of its customs, vices, evils, and treachery. The book would have been better except for two failings, it is apparently part of a continuing series and does not have a synopsis of what has gone before, and the authors fall into the habit of many science fiction/ fantasy writers of trying to create a new language. In this case, the authors have created a language with names that cannot be pronounced. It adds difficulty in reading when one continually runs into names of people or places that look like bltzpk'n.
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