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Good story, with an odd and out of character exploration
of alien manage a trois sex

I was initially excited to read this book, and the back story and beginning were interesting, if not exciting. I finished it out of commitment, rather than the thrills or terrific writing. Now, a year later, the story is vaguely remembered. I’m too old to read books that are vaguely remembered.

Getting to be a real slog, with a soppy romance in Chad combined with another developing in the White House, with adolescent angst thrown in for good measure. Spying and geopolitics appear to be an excuse for a book, rather than a story. Putting it down for a while.

I am having a very difficult time with this book. There is a lot of technical detail about "things," but not a lot of nuance about the characters, who appear to be colored either very scrubbed, clean, dedicated "Americans," of a military bent, and very black-hat bad guys, with an evil genius running the show.

The plot, while incredible, does have possibilities, with the apparent kidnapping of an American POTUS

After starting to read this, I quickly realized that I had read it before.

My German is not really up to this.

Just started and rocketing my way through. It seems to be more tightly written than Kerr's last few books; this is somewhat of a flashback to the March Violets tense noir style that got him going for me.

Just started and am a bit put off by the Victorian blah, blah and hope it gets better