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Shikari #2
Staré
Staré Rights! Staré Freedom! Staré secrets...
Auriga "Rigi" Bernardi, now a young woman and a recognized artist, returns to Shikhari. Neither an adult nor a child, Rigi navigates colonial society, wishing humans made as much sense as do the native Staré. But the Staré now demand independence and full rights as sapient beings. Or do they?
An archaeological expedition gone lethally awry leaves Rigi caught between cultures, a human in a Staré world. Then her uncle and his Staré assistant disappear just when Rigi needs his advice the most. Rigi and her cousin Tomás have discovered the key to the lost cities. Now someone—human, or Staré?—wants her dead.
Auriga "Rigi" Bernardi, now a young woman and a recognized artist, returns to Shikhari. Neither an adult nor a child, Rigi navigates colonial society, wishing humans made as much sense as do the native Staré. But the Staré now demand independence and full rights as sapient beings. Or do they?
An archaeological expedition gone lethally awry leaves Rigi caught between cultures, a human in a Staré world. Then her uncle and his Staré assistant disappear just when Rigi needs his advice the most. Rigi and her cousin Tomás have discovered the key to the lost cities. Now someone—human, or Staré?—wants her dead.
291 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2018
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July 11, 2018
Awesome
She captures the British Raj really well. The story really is told in the style of the adventure stories of the nineteenth century with a bit of Nancy Drew added.
The characters are clear, the dialogue is the Raj at its best and it's worst. This society is really believable and drawn well. It captured the symbiosis of a small number of East India Company type colonial administrative characters and large land owning families with a small percentage of natives, namely families engaged in personal service, native authority figures, individuals recruited to the military or employed by colonial enterprises.
The flip side is interesting to think about. I started to imagine how the story would read told from a native's point of view. The book puts the assumed superiority of the colonial mind on full display from the defeat of the French in Southeast India through the Sepoy Rebellion through the end of the Raj. In any case, this novel is a job well done. There is action but it's not built around massive battles and it moved with a kind of nineteenth century grace. I know this is a writer I want to read again.
She captures the British Raj really well. The story really is told in the style of the adventure stories of the nineteenth century with a bit of Nancy Drew added.
The characters are clear, the dialogue is the Raj at its best and it's worst. This society is really believable and drawn well. It captured the symbiosis of a small number of East India Company type colonial administrative characters and large land owning families with a small percentage of natives, namely families engaged in personal service, native authority figures, individuals recruited to the military or employed by colonial enterprises.
The flip side is interesting to think about. I started to imagine how the story would read told from a native's point of view. The book puts the assumed superiority of the colonial mind on full display from the defeat of the French in Southeast India through the Sepoy Rebellion through the end of the Raj. In any case, this novel is a job well done. There is action but it's not built around massive battles and it moved with a kind of nineteenth century grace. I know this is a writer I want to read again.
August 7, 2018
Good series science fiction in alien and colony planet
Second in quite good series. Author influenced by British in India fiction. Unlike first, includes murder mystery.Heroine almost of age and out of school, started on career as illustrator.
Second in quite good series. Author influenced by British in India fiction. Unlike first, includes murder mystery.Heroine almost of age and out of school, started on career as illustrator.
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