BL: The Merchants's War (Stross, Charles)
Charles Stross, The Merchants' War
Tor (2007) ISBN: 0-7653-1671-4
Score: 2
Fourth book fragment of the Merchant Princes series, in which everyone runs around panicking. An attempt is made to give the inheritable-ability-to-travel-to-parallel-worlds-by-looking-at-a-special-pattern a scientific explanation, but I still call it magic for only affecting one person and what they are carrying. I'm beginning to think this may be a series that's better to read once all the books have been published, since I had trouble remembering details from previous books (like Miriam's tampering with the post) and just who everyone was; it wasn't until I finished the book and was trying to figure out where everyone was that I realized Lady d'Ost had to be Brilliana, since everyone else was on the other side of the country then (in other words, a Dramatis Personae would have helped a lot).
Next Book: Eileen Wilks, Tempting Danger
Tor (2007) ISBN: 0-7653-1671-4
Score: 2
Fourth book fragment of the Merchant Princes series, in which everyone runs around panicking. An attempt is made to give the inheritable-ability-to-travel-to-parallel-worlds-by-looking-at-a-special-pattern a scientific explanation, but I still call it magic for only affecting one person and what they are carrying. I'm beginning to think this may be a series that's better to read once all the books have been published, since I had trouble remembering details from previous books (like Miriam's tampering with the post) and just who everyone was; it wasn't until I finished the book and was trying to figure out where everyone was that I realized Lady d'Ost had to be Brilliana, since everyone else was on the other side of the country then (in other words, a Dramatis Personae would have helped a lot).
Next Book: Eileen Wilks, Tempting Danger