Lucien Barnes
Nice idea, bringing out two books with feline species in the same month. Year of Intelligent Tigers is an interesting beast that you're happy to let warm itself by the fire. This book gets shoved straight back through the cat flap.
The savage aliens aren't much fun. They're either brutal and unpleasant (which is kind of cool for a bit), or they're ridiculously dim (why do they fail to eat Peri so many times?).
There's a fairly smart alien planet (although, oddly, very little is really made of it) and some promising incidental characters who turn out to have very little to say and obligingly die when they've nothing more to do.
It's a weirdly passive book in which stuff happens, but without anyone having much say in anything. The Fifth Doctor spends much of his time avoiding being put in a fridge, which says it all, really.
Lucien Barnes
Stant327
I enjoyed this book, but I have a criticism.
The killings are annoying. It's as if characters are killed off when there's nothing else for them to do. The plot is padded and you can't figure it out.
Kind of recommended.
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