Deluge: Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee [Mass Market Paperback]

Anne McCaffrey (Author), Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Author)

Book Description

Series: Twins of Petaybee | Publication Date: March 24, 2009

InterGal Corporation has long desired to exploit the resource-rich Petaybee. But the planet and its guardians, led by Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili, along with their twin children, Ronan and Murel, have successfully thwarted every attempt by the Corporation to impose its iron-fisted dominion. Until now. With a bold move, InterGal’s military arm has dispatched an invading force to subdue the planet once and for all.

While their parents work to foil the assault, Ronan and Murel are captured and sent to a desolate prison world where an old enemy, Dr. Mabo, waits to continue her cruel experiments on the shape-changing siblings. The twins’ only hope of escape lies in the uncharted seas of the prison planet. But in the murky depths, something else is waiting. . . .

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Precocious twin selkies Ronan and Muriel set out for their heroic third mission (after 2007's Maelstrom): rescuing an old friend who's been wrongfully imprisoned. Petaybee has been invaded by troops intending to arrest the twins' parents and others for aiding Marmion de Revers Algemeine's evacuation of the endangered inhabitants of Kanaka. Marmion herself is languishing in the Gwinnet Incarceration Colony. Ronan and Muriel dodge the soldiers and hitch a ride with space-faring deep-sea otters to reach Versailles Station, Marmion's home base, where they hope to beg influential Federation friends for help. Instead they wind up incarcerated with other youngsters at Gwinnet's Camp Neverland and cruelly tortured until their special skills and friends (including Zuzu, a telepathic cat) help them survive a tsunami and volcanic eruption and complete their mission. This concluding volume of the twins' trilogy will primarily appeal to young, animal-loving SF fans. (Mar.)
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Review

“The suspense is palpable, the pace is breathtaking, and the interspecies interactions are engaging.”—Booklist

“The collaborative effort by veterans McCaffrey and Scarborough brings together two consummate storytellers in an adventure suitable for both YA and adult audiences.”—Library Journal

“Magnificent . . . a glorious conclusion.”—SFRevu

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; Reprint edition (March 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345470079
• ISBN-13: 978-0345470072
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( M ) > McCaffrey, Anne

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic space opera, March 15, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deluge: Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee (Hardcover)

On the sentient planet Petaybee, the Company Corps has made a serendipitous landing, hoping to catch the natives off guard so they can round them up easily and send them to the prison planet Gwinnet. They arrive to find an empty village, the inhabitants hiding in the communal cave where they speak to Petaybee. The Corps is trapped in their ship by a terrific storm the planet sent their way.

The Selkie twins Ronan and Muriel have convinced the ship changing aliens who usually take the form of sea otters, to use their city-ship and take them to Versatile Station owned by their influential friend Marmie. She has been sent to the Gwinnet prison planet by corrupt officials bringing false charges against her. The twins want to contact Marmie's influential friends to talk to them about her imprisonment and the invasion of Petaybee. They can't use Petaybee's com because of bad weather conditions. They reach the station ahead of the Corps and they send a message just before the Corps takes over. They and the inhabitants of the station are taken to Gwinnet where the twins old enemy professor Mabo is waiting to conduct painful experiments on them to figure out how they change into seals when in water

DELUGE wraps up the Twins of Petaybee trilogy and all the questions are answered and all the loose ends are sewn up. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this fantastic space opera with its fast pacing, action scenes and the interaction of humans and shape-shifting life sentient aliens. There are plenty of villains from corrupt prison officials to power hungry men and women of the Company Corps to a mad professor; readers will thoroughly enjoy the tale in hope they get what they deserve, especially those that are irredeemable.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Deluge, April 5, 2008

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Tine "voracious book reader" (PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deluge: Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee (Hardcover)

Please keep in mind that the hero and heroine in this story are 11. Not 21 or 31, 11. They have help, but they are 11 and it seems that the mother, a heroine in her own right in an earlier story, is totally unable to control two 11 year olds and that they obviously give no weight at all to her opinion.

Once you accept, that they are 11, the story is OK.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, June 23, 2008

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bookcat123 (college) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deluge: Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee (Hardcover)

The Petaybee books were my favorite Anne McCaffrey series, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is a great writer too. I was really looking forward to this book...and it fell flat.

The second book (Maelstorm) didn't have a tidy finish, instead promising much for the next one. Which is fine, as long as it can deliver. But it didn't. Deluge has a two-part climax: the first is deus-ex-machina and over almost before you've realized it's starting, and relies on incredible coincidences. The second is a fake-out. It's basically "But there's another problem...never mind." And is solved in an abbreviated, over-used, and, as presented, completely unbelievable way.
And then the book's over, and I'm left wondering what went wrong.

Still, if I hadn't been expecting so much, it would probably have been more enjoyable. I loved the cat.