Yeah.
Cherryh's usual style is the slow buildup to a roller-coaster conclusion. In 'Foreigner' she just starts the roller-coaster on page one and doesn't let up until the end.
Part of the "angst and helplessness" is that the perspective character isn't a man of action, he's a diplomat. He has a certain level of character-shield protection, but he doesn't know it and he can't exploit it like, say, a Bruce Willis would.
In general, however, I enjoyed the series.
Unlike a couple of others recently read. Travis Taylor's The Quantum Connection is Marty Stu at its most pelagic. I got about a third of the way into the book and wanted to throw it against the wall. I felt like I was reading a Skysaber fanfic. And not 'Wizard of Gotham', either. (OTOH, Taylor's collabo with John Ringo, the 'Looking Glass' series, is -excellent-, and I highly recommend it. Somehow I think EGG would approve of humanity's first starship being NCC-4144, USS Vorpal Blade... especially when he caught the joke in the NCC number.)
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
Cherryh's usual style is the slow buildup to a roller-coaster conclusion. In 'Foreigner' she just starts the roller-coaster on page one and doesn't let up until the end.
Part of the "angst and helplessness" is that the perspective character isn't a man of action, he's a diplomat. He has a certain level of character-shield protection, but he doesn't know it and he can't exploit it like, say, a Bruce Willis would.
In general, however, I enjoyed the series.
Unlike a couple of others recently read. Travis Taylor's The Quantum Connection is Marty Stu at its most pelagic. I got about a third of the way into the book and wanted to throw it against the wall. I felt like I was reading a Skysaber fanfic. And not 'Wizard of Gotham', either. (OTOH, Taylor's collabo with John Ringo, the 'Looking Glass' series, is -excellent-, and I highly recommend it. Somehow I think EGG would approve of humanity's first starship being NCC-4144, USS Vorpal Blade... especially when he caught the joke in the NCC number.)
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.