Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who had scouted the planet for the First Droppers and, in exchange, been promised their freedom forever from human domination. By laws of the Guide Guild and the First-Landing Pact, she could never call to the cats, never speak with them, never approach them. But then capture and imprisonment, torture and slavery took the place of an empty future. Suddenly Tsia's only hope lay with her gate--and once she had touched the cats, there would be no turning back...
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Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who had scouted the planet for the First Droppers and, in exchange, been promised their freedom forever from human domination. By laws of the Guide Guild and the First-Landing Pact, she could never call to the cats, never speak with them, never approach them. But then capture and imprisonment, torture and slavery took the place of an empty future. Suddenly Tsia's only hope lay with her gate--and once she had touched the cats, there would be no turning back...
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A glimpse of life,
By "darkramoth" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cat Scratch Fever (Mass Market Paperback)
"Cat Scratch Fever" is the start of Harper's second major series. This series is set in a colonized world filled with a dazzling array of technology and opportunities. And amidst a society that we can only dream of now, an elemental earthy force of life and death still rules. The main character starts off the book, dragging the reader into her predicaments one by one, leading down the path to her own destruction or salvation. I absolutely love Tara K. Harper's books. This was the first book I read, though it's her second series. There is a sequel to this already in print, titled "Cataract" and a third book is due any time. The emotion and action that Harper puts into her books and into her characters, and the way she presented it to me as a reader, gripped me by the mind and the heart and would not let go. I suggest this book to as many people as I can, everyone who is interested not only in scifi and technology, but in the bare basics of survival in a ruthless and cut-throat society. When you're nothing but a number, where is freedom. Thick throughout this book is a heavy dose of symbolism related to slavery of one's mind, heart, emotions and body.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Caterrific,
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This review is from: Cat Scratch Fever (Mass Market Paperback)
Cat Scratch Fever was the first of Tara Harpers books I read and it sold me on her as an author. In Cat Scratch fever we learn about the psycic links between the colonists and the animals and the promise to the cats. Tsia wants one of the animal links unfortunately hers is to the cats. She avoids using her link and does not want to lose it because of the other benefits to the link. Then Tsia gets into trouble and her link to the cats is helpful and the cats seem to welcome her into their world.
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A great book with some funny twists,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cat Scratch Fever (Mass Market Paperback)
I found Cat Scratch Fever to be a very well
thought-out book. The characters were, in general,
well developed. The interactions between characters
were realistic, and showed plenty of personality. The
bits and pieces of what appear to be a foreign language
are very intriguing, and I found myself actually using
them in everyday life! Aside from a marvelous story,
Cat Scratch Fever has an interesting message. Tsia's
tale of slavery and bondage helped me to understand
much about being a slave that I had never thought
about before. What happened next in the storyline was
never what I expected to happen. Each time I read
this book, I find myself caught up all over again
in Tsia's struggles for freedom from slavery, both
internal and external. A very good book, and I
recommend it to other Sci-fi lovers.
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