A review by suzjustsuz
Destroyer by C.J. Cherryh
4.0
4+
Every now and then Cherryh manages to coincidentally remind me that the aliens are "not like us" no matter how much they seem to be. Now, understand that she does manage to TELL you that quite a lot, but sometimes she stops telling you and lets you forget and then lets you get hit in the face with it within the course of the story. I like that. I got a lot of that with this entry.
It took six books for me to stop calling it first "world building" and then "court intrigue." Today I'd call this story strongly character driven court intrigue in space. It takes a long time to develop, but it's quite good once it does.
Every now and then Cherryh manages to coincidentally remind me that the aliens are "not like us" no matter how much they seem to be. Now, understand that she does manage to TELL you that quite a lot, but sometimes she stops telling you and lets you forget and then lets you get hit in the face with it within the course of the story. I like that. I got a lot of that with this entry.
It took six books for me to stop calling it first "world building" and then "court intrigue." Today I'd call this story strongly character driven court intrigue in space. It takes a long time to develop, but it's quite good once it does.