The sequel to JOURNEY blends science fiction and family saga to create a complicated and vibrant world, the people who cherish it, those who want to conquer it and those who bring it to the edge of ruin. The Kennerins pursue their desires and hatreds from the reaches of deep space to the smallest islands on Aerie, in a series of dangerous games whose stakes include the world and space and tauspace, beyond the reach of time.
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"DANGEROUS GAMES is wonderful. Although I liked just about everything about it, the thing I liked the best, I think, was the book's leisurely pace and the sheer expanse of the thing. ... I like the book's muscularity and its interest in family affairs and family ties. I liked the fact that the women were strong but the men seemed to be presented fairly. I loved Chiba and his hot-air balloon, and the kasirene were great." - Stephen King
"Marta Randall is one of those writers who just goes right along getting better with each novel. Journey was so much better than her first couple of novels that it seemed like another writer entirely. Now, with a very long sequel to that novel, she has created one of the finer novels to appear in years. Randall does a fine job with her characters, as usual, and the early chapters in particular present a fascinating interplay among the crew of a starship. She has also created a fascinating personality in Tatha, the cat woman, who is a pivotal element in the plot against the Kennerins. Dangerous Games is a mixture of science fiction and historical novel that may put some readers off. Randall doesn't rush headlong int her plot, but carefully considers each step before she proceeds. But it is that very cautiousness which makes the novel so effective, an approach many another writer would do well to imitate." - Don D'Ammassa, S.F. Chronicle
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Very readable - couldn't put it down!,
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The sequel to 'Journey', 'Dangerous Games' continues the family saga of the Kenneran Family as they attempt to stave off the depredations of Parallax who is trying to take over their planet. Complex and twisty, the plot has enough turns for the inveterate reader and will keep you guessing as to what will come next. It reads like a true family history - I wonder which historical family it is actually based on?
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Finest kind of reading, entirely satisfying and more,
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This is the kind of book most of us wish for -- full-bodied, rich, superbly writen, entirely perfectly imagined, mighty tasty and more. Randall does world creation better than most. I just wish there could be more books like this one these days. So, I'm after Randall's "Journy" which is said to be a precurser of "Dangerous Games." Can't wait!
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