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Title: Queen of Denial by Selina Rosen ISBN: 1-892065-06-1 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Hilarious four and a half star debut
Comment: Selina Rosen has a winning effort in "Queen of Denial." The plot is fairly easy to sum up; Drewcila Quah has been a Salvager for many years. She's good at it; she drinks hard, loves hard, and swears a whole lot, as the other Salvagers do.
However, there's a secret in her past that is about to be revealed; seems that she's the missing Queen of an important planet. Her husband waited five years to come after her; now, he's found her.
The sparks fly, but not the way he wants. The King, Zarco, is a very boring guy; he's done a whole lot of warring, he slept with Drew's sister Stasha, and he's not a very nice guy at all in my opinion. Drew, even with all her swearing, bedding and other stuff, is the sympathetic one.
I really liked Drew; she's extremely funny. Her partner the alien is also amusing, and they interact well together. Her sister Stasha is also played for laughs, and is much more sympathetic than any other character in this book other than Drew.
Thing is, plot alone is not the reason to read this. The reason to read it is because it's absolutely, positively hilarious. There are many laugh out loud moments here, too many to list, and the _only_ real drawback is that the frontispiece for the novel (the initial page, explaining things) has a whole lot of punctuation and spelling errors. I don't completely understand this; how did it get through one printing that way, much less multiple printings?
Never mind. Ignore that page. The rest is extremely good.
So, the final tally is four and a half stars, highly recommended.
Barb Caffrey
Rating: 4
Summary: Rednecks In Outer Space!
Comment: This book was a lot of fun and a definite change of pace from "typical" SF (if there is any such thing), starting with Don Maitz' truly magnificent cover, which grabbed me by the lapels, dragged me over to the bookcase it was displayed on, and forced me to pick it up. Selina Rosen took over from there and carried me off to a magical universe with beer cans and ice chests and rednecks in space. Drewcilia's and her partner, Van Gar's attempts to cope with the twists and turns of this intrigue make for a lot of fun, and I only have two nits to pick, which cost it a star. First, the book gets a little politically preachy in spots, which causes it to drag as we switch from wickedly funny to earnest and sincere, and second, although plot twists conceal it until the end, this is clearly the first volume of a planned series so that the main characters end up not changing a bit, which was something of a disappointment. But if you want to boldly go where no SF author I've ever read has gone before, say hello to the Queen Of Denial.
Rating: 4
Summary: Take a break, sit back, pop a beer, and open this book!
Comment: If you are looking for nose-in-the-air literature, you are looking in the wrong place with Queen of Denial.
However, if you want a lightening fast read that will leave you chuckling, kick back and enjoy.
Drewcila Qwah is the best salvager in the galaxy. She loves beer, smoking, rousting about with her first mate Van Gar (a large fur covered alien) in the spaceport bars, and causes a disturbance wherever she goes.
Surprisingly, her garbage scow is hired to transport King Zarco back to his homeworld, and she is made an offer she can't refuse.
But during her mission, she finds out that Zarco has been searching for his missing queen Taralin, and that she's the one he's looking for. She has no memory of her abduction or anything prior to it, for her captures removed part of her brain. Still, she decides to go ahead with Zarco and see what she can get from this planet. After all, she's their Queen.
In an uproarously funny adventure, Drew and Van Gar wind out turning Barion upside down while trying to fix their post war problems, all while someone keeps making attempts on Drew's life.
This book is nothing more than a simplistic romp from one planet to another, more of a character story with a sci-fi background. There is hardly any prose at all, which causes the book to be a bit jumpy, but the dialogue is smart and sassy and filled with laughs and clever banter.
If I were ever to take a space adventure, I would want Drew as my pilot. So put away your snobbish discretion and settle down into the wacky capers of the irascible Queen of Garbage. Enjoy!
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Title: Recycled by Selina Rosen ISBN: 1892065932 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Chains of Freedom by Selina Rosen, Charles Keegan ISBN: 1892065428 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Chains of Destruction by Selina Rosen, Claudia Christian ISBN: 189206569X Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair ISBN: 1591050898 Publisher: NovelBooks, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: An Accidental Goddess by Megan Sybil Baker ISBN: 1553165780 Publisher: LTDBooks Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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