Showing posts with label star kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star kingdom. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #18 featuring A Beautiful Friendship

Welcome To


With Amber ~ The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty


Wunderpurr greetings fellow book lovers

It's so lovely to have your company again this week, and I so love our little book club...


... not many of mew will know this, but I am quite a shy and quiet kitty, [much like a snow leopard, mew only see me when I want mew to see me] keeping to myself much of the time, that's why I so enjoy Wednesdays as I get to spend time with my fellow bibliophiles, I can't tell mew how pawesome it is, like on so many levels! MOL 

And now I think it's time to share this weeks selection.



This week on book reviews with Amber, I'm sharing

A Beautiful Friendship 

Star Kingdom


by

David Weber


Today I have a novel in a completely different genre fur mew to explore.  It's a sci-fi/fantasy novel and it's classed a young adult read.

Here's a little bit of the book blurb:

Young teen Stephanie Harrington forms a telepathic bond with an intelligent alien treecat on a pioneer planet - and must fight for the freedom of her new friend and his species against highly-placed enemies determined to claim the world for humans only.

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This is my furst david Weber novel and I have to say I really rather enjoyed it.  The descriptive writing was fab and landscape had a reminiscent vibe of Pandora from the movie Avatar with some of the indigenous mammals having six limbs rather than four.  The worldbuilding was very good and really enjoyable as the author takes mew to exciting new frontiers, and some of the planets inhabitants are rather deadly and supurr furocious too, just to keep mew on your toes. 

The novel tells the story of Stephanie Harrington who is relocated with her parents from one planet, Star Kingdom of Manticore to a new one called Sphinx; here she encounters a sentient arboreal cat-like creature.  Aftur a near-tragic accident Stephanie is saved and then  'adopted' by one of these indigenous treecats who is called, Climbs Quickly. 

The treecats are telepathic which is great fun, as is the dialogue between the treecats. As the story progresses the bond between Stephanie and Climbs Quickly grows and this leads to an even bigger and more deadly adventure. Obviously, I'm not going to spoilerize anything fur mew, but needless to say this was undoubtedly a great read and I already have the next two books in my library waiting to go as soon as I've finished this review. That should tell mew effurything! 

Book II

 Fire Season

Book III

Treecat Wars

Thus far aftur book one, I see this as a highly purromising series and in my humble opinion, it's definitely not just fur the young adult market.

Paperback copy: 384 pages

Audio Edition: 10 hours 58 mins long


The Amber Biblio Rating System Fur Offurall Enjoyment:


Ratings of:

 A Beautiful Friendship 

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Characters

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Narration

Offurall Enjoyment


I do hope mew enjoy this novel and if mew've read it already, tell me did mew like it?

Sadly it's time fur me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time!

Happy reading or listening

Bestest biblio purrs

Amber xox







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