A review by essinink
Alliance Rising by C.J. Cherryh, Jane S. Fancher
3.0
(Review written 2 months late, and I lost my notes, so this is very abbreviated.)
As part of the Alliance-Union universe, this is an interesting bridge. As a standalone novel, it suffers.
There's a kind of claustrophobic despair common to AU books that's missing here, possibly because of the multiple PoV. The writing is also in multiple iterations of the same discussions. It would have been a tighter read if those discussions were restricted to the characters with the highest stakes.
As part of the Alliance-Union universe, this is an interesting bridge. As a standalone novel, it suffers.
There's a kind of claustrophobic despair common to AU books that's missing here, possibly because of the multiple PoV. The writing is also in multiple iterations of the same discussions. It would have been a tighter read if those discussions were restricted to the characters with the highest stakes.