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dustydigger
Posted 2016-08-07 11:14 AM (#14145 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		I needed to read a title beginning with the letter ''H'' for a challenge,and chose to reread C J Cherryh's Heavy Time. Big mistake. I had been away from the space station helldecks for a couple of years,and once I revisited I was hooked again. Heavy Time is perhaps one of the weakest of the Alliance/Union series,very confusing even to an old Cherryh fan,(we need at least a smidgen of exposition sometimes C J!) but the intensity,the gripping hold that world has on you so that you are dazed when you surface from the tale, dragged me in and I just had to read the sequel,Hellburner, one of my faves in the series.This was my 3rdreading of the book and I think I am getting my head around it,and probably another couple of reads and I will fully grasp things! lol.. Cherryh does not make it easy for us,and I'm sure a lot of people are put off by the unusual style,but we see new things every time we read,
Once started the book I had to keep going and reluctantly left the last 50 pages at 3 a.m. when my eyes were refusing to stay open.,and finished it next morning. Tiny snippets in the story were glances at others in the series and I very much fear that I will feel the need to check in on the rest of the series,despite all the challenge books I still have to read......sigh.....

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