This is the sixth book in a series. Gardner’s heroine, Admiral Festina Ramos appears once more, this time with Youn Suu as protagonist. As a direct contrast to Ramos, who has a purple birthmark on one cheek, Youn Suu has a birthmark on the other cheek, and the book makes much of the difference be...
This book was pure joy for me to read. I loved everything about it -- the world, the characters, the very idiosyncratic voice. After I came down from my reading high I found myself poking holes in some of the assertions about the world, suspect of the ways Gardner chose his characters to discoura...