snazel's review against another edition
3.0
Don't try to con a con artist. And especially don't con a con artist who's a decorated military hero.
walford's review
3.0
3.5 rounded up. This is a sidebar to the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, and doesn't add much, but I always enjoy Caroline Sula's company. I read this to get ready for The Accidental War, first in a new series set in the Praxis universe. Space Opera lovers, if you do not know these books you have a treat coming.
jontia's review
4.0
Solid short story. I just hope this means a full book set in the Praxis universe is incoming.
tasadion's review
2.0
Not enough plot, and far too much fluff, of interest to people invested in the characters but not to others.
tome15's review against another edition
4.0
Williams, Walter Jon. Impersonations. Dread Empire’s Fall No. 3.75. Tor, 2016.
Impersonations is set between Conventions of War and The Accidental War. Lady Sula’s bosses, unwilling to share the limelight of the Praxis’ recent victory, transfer her to Earth, now a backwater planet that lost out in the wormhole lottery. Sula is a fan of Earth history and its artistic porcelain—though one wonders how any of her collection survives all the mayhem in which she participates. Her longstanding impersonation of an aristocrat is endangered when she receives a visit from someone she is supposed to have known at school. Then there are assassination plots and natural disasters, and a quiet hitch on a backwater planet is suddenly anything but quiet. Impersonations is a more lightly focused and shorter novel than the main numbers in the series. If you are in the series for the space battles, this is not the novel for you. But if you like the planetary adventure and palace intrigue, then enjoy. I did.
Impersonations is set between Conventions of War and The Accidental War. Lady Sula’s bosses, unwilling to share the limelight of the Praxis’ recent victory, transfer her to Earth, now a backwater planet that lost out in the wormhole lottery. Sula is a fan of Earth history and its artistic porcelain—though one wonders how any of her collection survives all the mayhem in which she participates. Her longstanding impersonation of an aristocrat is endangered when she receives a visit from someone she is supposed to have known at school. Then there are assassination plots and natural disasters, and a quiet hitch on a backwater planet is suddenly anything but quiet. Impersonations is a more lightly focused and shorter novel than the main numbers in the series. If you are in the series for the space battles, this is not the novel for you. But if you like the planetary adventure and palace intrigue, then enjoy. I did.
jameseckman's review
3.0
A decent space opera that in this case was more like a police procedural. The hero Caroline Sula certainly has an interesting past! While part of a series, it can be read as a standalone though there are some spoilers. Very short by modern standards, it's a fast read.
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