It's Shipped!

[ann_leckie]

At the start of the stirring ninth entry in Cherryh's much praised Foreigner series (after 2006's Pretender), the atevi ruler Tabini has thwarted an attempt to overthrow him, though the usurper, Murini, has not yet been captured. Things appear to have settled back into routine, except for the hijinks of Cajeiri, Tabini's young heir, who has grown used to the liberties allowed a human child but not the heir to atevi rule. Then Cajeiri disappears and a troublesome Eastern lord is suspected of kidnapping him. Murini may also be involved. Human translator and diplomat Bren Cameron, along with the elderly but indomitable atevi matriarch Ilisidi and their deadly servants from the Assassins' Guild, must set off cross country in the dead of winter to attempt a rescue, while Cajeiri must prove that he is indeed worthy to be Tabini's heir. As always, Cherryh alternates complex political maneuvering with pell-mell action sequences in an intensely character-driven SF novel sure to appeal to the many fans of this series. (Feb.) (Publishers Weekly)

Deliverer has shipped! Amazon told me so! EEEEEEEEEEE!

And I've been staying away from Shejidan, but tonight I found the traditional sentence by sentence.* In the past (for Explorer and Destroyer) I have rendered this service myself, but for Pretender and now Deliverer I didn't feel up to the savage bidding for ARCs that you have to go through to be the doler-out of sentences. And knowing that someone would surely be doing it, I stayed away because I would probably go batshit insane with waiting.

Have I mentioned how much I love these books?


*For the past four books, someone at the Cherryh Pit (now the Halls of Shejidan) would get their grubby paws on an ARC and then, one month before the official release, give the board a single sentence every day, to tide us over until we could get our own copy. It's a beautiful tradition, it brings a tear to my eye thinking about it.

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(now I know what to do with the rest of my Amazon Christmas gift certificate...)