Tananarive Due, Patricia Due, Karin Lowachee

[teaotter.livejournal.com]

Freedom in the Family, Tananarive and Patricia Due

This is a fantastic book! In alternating chapters, Patricia Stevens Due and her daughter, Tananarive Due, talk about their histories with the Civil Rights movement in different eras. The stories are personal, the writing engaging. I particularly enjoyed being able to see some of the same themes played out in completely different ways in their lives.

The Living Blood, Tananarive Due

This is the sequel to My Soul to Keep, and continues the stories of Jessica and David, both now immortal, as their daughter's mystic powers grow out of control. I had been hoping that this book would be quite different from the last one, considering the ending of MStK. Instead, this is a very similar book in tone and construction. I'm not very fond of the 'mother is afraid her child may be evil' genre, so I found this one disappointing.

Burndive and Cagebird, Karin Lowachee

Oh, I loved these! They are books 2 and 3 of a series (Warchild --book 1 -- has been reviewed in the comm before), but you don't have to read them in order, because they follow different main characters. I love hard science fiction, and these qualify. You get to see the lives and choices of people caught up in the seemingly endless war between human-settled worlds and the alien strits -- and the pirate ships preying on both sides.

Comments

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

I really need to track down Cagebird, now. I thought Warchild and Burndive were excellent.

[teaotter.livejournal.com]

My library doesn't have Warchild, but I liked the others enough that I'll be buying a copy.