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http://www.livejournal.com/users/lampbane/364951.html

"I found myself riveted by each volume and wanting more - alas, I don't think it's riveting enough for me to drop $170 on the remaining 17 volumes or so. But while I sometimes found the faces maddening, the story was pretty solid. Tak is a great main character because he's so clueless and competent. Clueless is good because it allows the author (through the other characters) to explain a lot of driving terms the reader might not know; competent is good because it avoids that feeling of helplessness. I hate characters that are just plain stupid, ingenues that need to be slowly taught and don't really have much of a purpose, don't really garner respect. I liked watching the other characters slowly realize what the reader already knows. There's sort of a meeting in the middle, since Tak isn't really part of that world, and he starts to warm to it." ( )