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Rift in the Sky
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Third in the prequel series to the Locus bestselling Trade Pact Universe novels.
Despite all good intentions, the lure of the Talent to move through space using the M'hir dimension is too much for the Om'ray of Cersi to resist. As the awareness of this talent spreads, all those Om'ray who are capable converge on the settlement at Sona. To prevent the disruption of the Agreement and the destruction that it would unleash, the M'hiray, as they now call themselves, agree to leave Cersi forever and try to establish their own haven within the Trade Pact worlds-only to learn that not everybody wants peace.
Despite all good intentions, the lure of the Talent to move through space using the M'hir dimension is too much for the Om'ray of Cersi to resist. As the awareness of this talent spreads, all those Om'ray who are capable converge on the settlement at Sona. To prevent the disruption of the Agreement and the destruction that it would unleash, the M'hiray, as they now call themselves, agree to leave Cersi forever and try to establish their own haven within the Trade Pact worlds-only to learn that not everybody wants peace.
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“4 stars, https://reviews.metaphorosis.com/review/rift-in-the-sky-julie-e-czerneda/
<strong>Summary</strong>
The agreement that governs the interaction of Oud, Tikitik, and Om'ray on the planet Cersi is beginning to fall apart, in no small way due to changes introduced by Aryl di Sarc and the community she has re-established. Offworld intrusion brings things to a head, and changes Aryl's Om'ray in ways no one expected.
<strong>Review</strong>
It’s difficult to maintain a consistently high standard across a series, and especially a prequel series. Czerneda has managed it here, introducing a complex, credible, and interesting world that partly explains the origin of the M’hiray – telepathic humanoids who can also teleport. This concluding volume of the prequel trilogy continues its close focus on the M’hiray themselves, though with tantalizing glimpses of the universe beyond them.
Czerneda does stumble on occasion, however. The defining moment of the M’hiray – what makes them different from the Om’ray they derive from – is somewhat murky, with too little explained, and too much reliance on mysterious, ancient artifacts that no one seems very interested in exploring. Still, the book is well written, satisfying, and ends well. Except…
Except that, after the epilogue-epilogue, there’s a novelette-epilogue telling us what happens next, and … murky would be putting it kindly. It’s frenetic and under-explained, and presents our key characters very differently than the preceding three volumes. There’s not even much attempt at handwaving to explain why they act as they do. It’s an attempt to set up the Mhiray for the next/original trilogy, but to me, it felt like a rushed afterthought. It is, at best, clumsy, which is not a word I’d often associate with Czerneda.
Overall, an effective conclusion to an intriguing trilogy. If you’re just reading it for that, skip the long epilogue. If, like most, you’re interested in the larger series, the epilogue is useful, but not really much fun.”
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About Julie E. Czerneda
Julie E. Czerneda is a biologist and writer whose science fiction has received international acclaim, awards, and best-selling status. She is the author of the popular "Species Imperative" trilogy, the "Web Shifters" series, the "Trade Pact Universe" trilogy and her new "Stratification" novels. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her stand-alone novel, In the Company of Others, won Canada's Prix Aurora Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished SF. Julie lives with her husband and two children in the lake country of central Ontario, under skies so clear they could take seeing the Milky Way for granted, but never do. You can find her at www.czerneda.com.
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