Diamond Star, by Catherine Asaro

[keilexandra]

Diamond Star
by Catherine Asaro
495 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/SF/Romance

I didn't realize how starved I was for good fluff; I sped through this newest Asaro in a single night despite its flaws. I'm not a rock fan, so the premise didn't excite me, but I do adore the Skolian Empire world. Diamond Star involves an all-too-predictable addiction arc. I have little sympathy for Del being broke when he can splurge whenever he wants. Del himself treads a thin line between amusing and annoying. I love Asaro for both politics and relationships, but in this particular book, I wanted more space opera and less obstinate romantic misunderstandings. As buymeaclue would say (I hope I get this right): less boyfriend, more roller derby.

Still want more books like The Moon's Shadow, about Aristos politics. Especially Jai/Tarquine. Or even about Kelric, who is more interesting when he's not perceived from the POV of a rebellious teenage rock star. Dehya is really interesting too; I'm not so fond of Roca, but her story seems to have come to an end with Eldrinson's (natural) death.

Comments

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I'm going to end up reading that book, and chances are I'm going to end up not liking it because it looks like things don't move forward. I have built a checklist of Things Which Would Satisfy Me In Terms Of Series Completion-- abusive relationship, Jaibird is awesome, Althor the Younger gets his ass handed to him, Dehya dies-- and I do not think more than one of them is going to happen.

[keilexandra]

Abusive True Love and Dehya dying are never going to happen. Context reminder for young!Althor? And Jaibird = Jai III?

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Young Althor is Althor the cyborg. He's the one I want to smack the most. I am glad he's only shown up in one book, really. Jaibird is young Jaibriol, the son, poor tortured character, and really I want him to be the source of my Althor smackdown.

I know it's not going to happen. This is my equivalent of the OH JOHN RINGO NO comment, where someone said that the first stunt wouldn't work and the entire series should end with a frozen corpse falling out of the landing gear and it was all an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. My id is not her id.

[keilexandra]

Oh, I love Jai so so much. I want more Tarquine.

I'm still convinced that Owl Creek Bridge is naturalist.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I want more Tarquine, but I'm not sure that the Tarquine she'll give me is the Tarquine I want.