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Title: Eternity Row (Stardoc (Paperback)) by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0-451-45891-5 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Doc is back, and as Cranky as ever!
Comment: Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil, now Cherijo Torin, is a new mom, a healer on board the Jorenian ship Sunlace, and is married to a human telepath who was raised by various aliens (and has the biggest case of emotional repression seen in science fiction).
I really love this series, and am always anxious when the new book comes out. "Eternity Row" delivered what I'm getting used to out of Viehl: a series of emotionally frustrating events that leave you growling out loud at the situation, with deadly funny situations and bon-mots tossed throughout. And, of course, a big revelation at the end that leaves you hanging and thinking, "But... but... what next?"
Duncan Reever and Cherijo are their usual combustible selves. They have a few trillion arguments and disagreements throughout this book, and as usual I found myself ready to toss Duncan out an airlock. I have a hard time rationalizing why anyone - let alone Cherijo - would stay with this man, but I suspend my disbelief and keep reading like a good little book addict. The rest of the plot is always worth it, and this book was no exception. The other quibble was the use of "babytalk" when Cherijo's daughter was speaking. Sometimes I had to read them aloud with a nasally kid-voice in an attempt to translate what the child was saying into english. "Pree dars" is pretty stars, for example. Ouch.
With Marel (Cherijo's daughter) developing a sub-plot of interest, and the return of old favourites like Dreen and Alunthri, you'll be content with this episode in the Stardoc series. I sure was. Now I just need the next one...
'Nathan
Rating: 3
Summary: More of the same
Comment: I really enjoyed the first two Stardoc books, and the third book was OK. Unfortunately, the fourth book was a chore to finish. It's not just that it is more of the same medical emergency and melodrama as its predecessors. The new characters and new alien societies introduced in this book are not very interesting. When you get right down to it, it's the quality of the villain in a melodrama that makes it. The best Viehl comes up with for a villian in Eternity Row is a bad tempered fiancee. I'm afraid the series is loosing steam.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cherijo is back, and doing what she does best!
Comment: This is a continuing story, and I very much recommend that you start with the first book, Stardoc, and read the sequels in order: Stardoc, Beyond Vallarean, Endurance, then Shockball. If you haven't, the rest of this review will contain spoilers for the first four.
Contrary to what a lot of other readers seem to think, I believe that Eternity Row has brought Cherijo back into her groove.
In this Fifth installment of the StarDoc series, Cherijo Grey-Veil is back on board The Sunlace with her husband/linguist Duncan Reever, and their new child Marel. With them on the huge HouseClan Torin ship are their two tag-alongs from Shockball; Hawk Long Knife, a Terran/Taercal halfbreed, and Dhreen, an Oenrallian who is Cherijo's former-friend and recent betrayer.
Eternity row starts with HouseClan Torin decreeing that they will no longer turn their backs on their enemies, and have outfitted The Sunlace for war, willing to declare ClanKill on any who attack. Being upset enough about this, Cherijo goes to visit Dhreen and accidentally shoots him, causing a grievous injury. When Dhreen wakes from his surgery, he has trauma induced global amnesia. And everywhere Cherijo goes, she is now followed by the suspicious new psychiatric resident Qonja, cousin to Clan Torin.
Eternity Row is packed with more adventure than the third and fourth books, which bogged down a little on the war between the League and the Hsktskt. Although The Sunlace rescues some ships disabled and floating with both League and Hsktskt survivors, Cherijo treats them aboard the Sunlace until they can be offloaded, and thankfully does not return to this in this installment.
Instead, they head for Hawk's home world of Taerca hoping that he can locate his father. What they find is an openly hostile race of dying people, living under strict religious standards. It's trouble on Taerca, and trouble after the leave the planet when Squilyp's mail order bride from Omorr arrives, a haughty little thing who immediately begins to push around the big Jorenians. Trouble waits for Cherijo still when they arrive at Dhreen's home world of Orenrall, where things are not what they seem to be. Orenrall is hiding a horrible secret from the universe, and its up to Dhreen to remember it before the Bartermen sell them all as slaves.
Eternity Row is back on the 5 star list along with books 1 and 2 in the series, recapturing the excitement, bizarre worlds and species, and helter-skelter race against life and death that Cherijo always gets herself tangled into. Strange planets, purple moulds, feline deities, squishy worms, planetary drug addictions, the strange ClanCousin Qonja watching her every move, and a racial struggle for death rather than life all will plant themselves in Cherijo's path and force her to confront them.
What I really liked about this installment in the series is that they put aside the war for a while to concentrate on bringing back the more sci-fi elements of the series. I like the books better when Cherijo and Duncan get along, their squabbling can get tiresome at times. And I love the places and Beings that S.L.Veihl can dream up, and was getting tired of the Hsktskt/League conflict.
The worst and most annoying thing about this installment is the baby talk that Marel speaks. Okay, I know she is supposed to be a precocious child, but I dearly hope that her speech is better in the next StarDoc book. And Ms. Veihl, you had better be working on it now, because I can't wait to take off again with Cherijo on her adventures. Enjoy.
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Title: Endurance (Stardoc (Paperback)) by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451458141 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stardoc II: Beyond Varallan (Stardoc (Paperback)) by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451457935 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blade Dancer by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451459261 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Stardoc: A Novel (Stardoc (Paperback)) by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451457730 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bio Rescue by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451459784 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 06 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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