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thatgirlinblack's review
3.0
So Vonnie, her clandestine AI Lam, and her friends who covered for her have successfully negotiated a treaty with the volatile sunfish beneath Europa's frozen sky. But all is not right as rain, as there are still many questions about this mysterious new species.
Military and science teams from all the world's major and semi-major players approach the area. Vonnie and her friends interact a lot with the sunfish, discovering that there are many tribes, each of which is headed by a few intelligent, strategizing matriarchs managing many dumb, savage males.
The nearby Brazilian team is always ready to respond militarily and has a short fuse to boot. Vonnie is bringing more of her team to her and the sunfish's side, but they have to constantly send reports to and receive orders from Earth to mitigate whatever they're thinking of doing. And a cantankerous old foe sneakily causes more mischief for them to deal with. Vonnie is keen on a human-sunfish partnership, but there is a long way yet to go on that, with hurdles provided by the creatures' volatility and violence, and human greed and noncooperation.
This is a very short book and should be considered a novella. It's like 1/3 the length of the first book. As such, there isn't much romance or language, though Vonnie and her boyfriend Ben are definitely closer and there's a triangle including their boss.
Vonnie continually rips humans and defends sunfish, wound about with her own convoluted moral code. Humans are idiots because they kill but sunfish just do it because that's the way they are. Why can't people be more open to these new creatures, while she berates a crewmember who doesn't particularly like sunfish. Give the sunfish a chance, but there's no chance that there's a God. Again, the constant bias is irritating.
Military and science teams from all the world's major and semi-major players approach the area. Vonnie and her friends interact a lot with the sunfish, discovering that there are many tribes, each of which is headed by a few intelligent, strategizing matriarchs managing many dumb, savage males.
The nearby Brazilian team is always ready to respond militarily and has a short fuse to boot. Vonnie is bringing more of her team to her and the sunfish's side, but they have to constantly send reports to and receive orders from Earth to mitigate whatever they're thinking of doing. And a cantankerous old foe sneakily causes more mischief for them to deal with. Vonnie is keen on a human-sunfish partnership, but there is a long way yet to go on that, with hurdles provided by the creatures' volatility and violence, and human greed and noncooperation.
This is a very short book and should be considered a novella. It's like 1/3 the length of the first book. As such, there isn't much romance or language, though Vonnie and her boyfriend Ben are definitely closer and there's a triangle including their boss.
Vonnie continually rips humans and defends sunfish, wound about with her own convoluted moral code. Humans are idiots because they kill but sunfish just do it because that's the way they are. Why can't people be more open to these new creatures, while she berates a crewmember who doesn't particularly like sunfish. Give the sunfish a chance, but there's no chance that there's a God. Again, the constant bias is irritating.
thomassmith's review
4.0
A great continuation to the series! I hope Jeff is right now feverishly working on the next installment
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