A review by vasha
Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda

3.0

This was quite an enjoyable read. The first couple chapters are awkwardly crammed with exposition, telling us what our hero Esen-alit-Quar is and how the mechanics of her shape-changing work, but after that it settles into a lively adventure story, with an appealingly warm interspecies friendship at its center. Czerneda's taken a bit of trouble over coming up with interesting alien species, too, including the herd-thinking Ganthor and the touch-oriented Ket. Whatever shape she's in, Esen is a sensuist, reveling in the impressions of her senses, and Czerneda enjoys describing things that humans wouldn't be able to experience.