About this title: You can't go home again...What do you do when home is a conspiracy that's been discovered and destroyed? When home is a planet in a star system that's gone missing? When home means working for the destroyers of galaxies? When home is a spaceship that's calling out to the enemy? Cantra 'yos Phelium isn't a quitter, but she has more than a little ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13:9781592220878ISBN:1592220878
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Edition: First edition. Ace Mass-Market ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780441015498ISBN:0441015492
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is in excellent condition. Cover and pages are clean, binding is tight. We ship daily, Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ace
Date Published: 2007-11-27
ISBN-13:9780441015498ISBN:0441015492
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Meisha Merlin, Decatur, GA.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781592220878ISBN:1592220878
Description: New in New jacket. First edition/first printing. Book is in fine (unread) condition with a fine unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks. read more
"I love this Liaden series origination/migration duology. What is not to like about a book where one of the main characters is a sentient tree that can use biochemistry on the fruit it produces. Loving this!
The two stories explain a lot about the series,and are just very well written."
"Excellent read. I love the Liaden Universe books. The Liaden Universe is strongly drawn and the details are consistently well thought-out. The books have action, suspense, romance and characters you really care about. The hero and heroine of Crystal Dragon and the prequel Crystal Soldier are Cantra and Jela, both people you would like to know and definitely people you would want on YOUR side in any disagreement. In my opinion, though, neither is really the best place to start the series even though chronologically they fall before the Conflict of Honors/Agent of Change/etc. books. I would recommend reading them in the following order:
Current generation Korval: Conflict of Honors Agent of Change Carpe Diem Plan B I Dare Fledgling Saltation
Previous generation Korval: Local Custom Scout's Progress
Earlier in Liaden and Terran contact: Balance of Trade
Founding of Liad and Clan Korval: Crystal Soldier Crystal Dragon"
"Positives: the tree, the final quarter (ish) of the book and especially the conclusion.
Negatives: the massive amount of new (and mostly irrelevant-in-the-end vocabulary), the majority of the first half.
Verdict: Read it, because you know you need to know how they got there, and how Korval came to be. But then you can shelve it and go back to better stories like I Dare and Scout's Progress.
An e-mail I got the day I was reading it said "I picked up and read the first 20 pages of Crystal Dragon. Is it a SF novel or BDSM porn?..."
Sadly, my reply was "Yeah, it reads like the Lackey/Anthony book in some ways - they bother to go all the way to "bonding the submissive (male) through sex" to the female ::sigh:: It really isn't very good. Though the parts with Jela and Cantra aren't a total waste of time.
... I'm going to finish it before I give up and consign it to the shelf behind Tomorrow Log. (I'm on page 250)""
"Not nearly as fun as the first volume in this duology -- this is a much sadder tale -- but very exciting towards the end as the sprawling tale neatly ties up the origin story. I don't think I would've appreciated this story on its own without having already fallen in love with the universe from the other books."
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