A colony, far from the Earth and desperate to survive, finds itself fighting against a native populace. The natives turn out to be more intelligent and resourceful than thought, and start to figure out how to turn the more advanced settlers' tools against them. Interesting premise, worthy of a read, but not C.J. Cherryh at her best. ( )

I'm a little out of patience with the protagonist of this book. He's supposed to build a dam? and the world is inhospitable? He (and the author) don't know what they're talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo The Blackfly Song on YouTube tells about surveying for a dam in REALLY inhospitable country - northern Canada. The settlers can't get supplies from Earth? So sad. If the settlers of medieval Greenland had had Hestia's one ship every seven years (OR if they hadn't had to cope with the Little Ice Age and its encroaching glaciers), they probably would have made it. New France had a climate nearly as horrible - far better than Hestia's - and slightly better (although highly unreliable) supply lines, and thrived.

TL/DR: More attention to worldbuilding would have resulted in a more believable novel.

Romanzo di formazione. Carino, ma non di più. ( )

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