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Title: Local Custom by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller ISBN: 0-441-00911-5 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Wonderful - I Loved This Book!
Comment: Er Thom yos'Galan, Master Trader and Heir to Clan Korval knew his duty to his clan - to provide the Clan with a child of his own body. He also knew that he could never offer a contract wife the care and attention his honor demanded until he had seen Anne Davis one last time. Then he would seek the Healers on Liad and they would erase all of his memories of the woman who had captured his heart...
Anne, a Terran and brilliant linguist had met Er Thom years before and had a wonderful affair with him, falling head over heels in love, but knowing that he would leave her, as he had. What Anne did not tell Er Thom was that she bore his child, her precious Shan. She never expected to see Er Thom again and was stunned when he walked in to her apartment. They both found that their love was as deep and fierce as it had ever been and Er Thom found that he did not know how to say goodbye. Then Shan returned home and Er Thom found himself with an even bigger problem than before. For Shan was Er Thom's heir, but as a half Liaden, half Terran, there was no guarantee that he would be accepted by the Clan and the tho'Delm, Er Thom's mother. Er Thom knew that there would be a sacrifice to make in the time ahead of him, a sacrifice that would rip his heart to shreds. For the tho'Delm had rejected Shan and refused to even consider that Er Thom had a future with Anne and so he was faced with the difficult choice of weighing his honor and the honor of his clan against the love he could not live without...
Local Custom is the first book in the Liaden series as far as chronology goes (even though books 3-5 were written first) and introduces us to Er Thom yos'Galan and his son Shan yos'Galan, whom we see in Conflicts of Honor. I found the Liaden culture fascinating and loved learning more about the customs and mindset of these people. Lee and Miller have done a fabulous job at creating this universe and making their characters absolutely believable. I loved all of the characters and felt that I could identify with all of them in a different way. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses and all of them had their own part to play in the game. Although the romance of the two main characters is a large part of the plot, the world building, the characterization, attention to detail and the excellent quality of writing kept me absolutely riveted - I couldn't put this book down!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Liaden book
Comment: I only give it 4 stars instead of 5 because later books in the
series are better.
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprisingly Enjoyable
Comment: I read Local Custom as part of the omnibus "Pilot's Choice". It is my first novel in the Liadan Universe. It is a surprisingly good foray into the Liadan series. I find myself wanting more. For me the book started out very slow and didn't really seize my interest until the protagonists went to Liad. From then on, I was hooked. Indeed by the end of the book, I was completely immersed in the Liadan Universe.
As has been stated by other reviews, the SF aspect of this book was mostly in the setting and mood, not really an important part of the plot. For me this was not an issue because I was drawn in by the characters and the environment. I am not a fan of the Romance genre and perhaps that is why I was not impressed in the beginning. A lot of time is spent convincing the reader that Er Thom as the perfect man and that his love for Ann is a perfect love. Capitulations about the love that knows no end, is not for me...I don't love fantasy. Anyway, as soon as they get to Liad, there is more "balance".
The characters that I liked the most were not the protagonists but the supporting players of Daav and Shan. I wanted to know what happens to these two. Er Thom and Ann Davis...I wasn't nearly as invested in their lives. I am a little uncomfortable with the impression that with the exception of Ann Davis, most of the women characters were written as petulant, flighty, irrational, mean-spirited and "bad". Though it is obvious in the Liad Universe that both woman and men both occupy positions of power, the execution of the story struck me as having misogynistic undertones (overbearing mother, jealous cousin, duplicitous trader). I am willing to find out if it was simply characteristic of the story or if this is an underlying theme in the Liad Universe.
All in all, I would say that I was surprised how invested I had become by the end of the book. That is the sign of a very good read.
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Title: I Dare (Liaden Universe Novel Series) by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller ISBN: 1892065037 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Plan B by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Michael Herring ISBN: 1892065002 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: 30 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller ISBN: 0441009646 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Carpe Diem by Sharon Lee, Miller Steve, Steve Miller ISBN: 0441010229 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Tomorrow Log by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller ISBN: 1892065878 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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