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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Fledgling - Sharon Lee, Steve Miller</h1>
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2020-05-12
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/liaden-universe/">#liaden universe</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2009/">#published:2009</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5585180-fledgling">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is
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home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both
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Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at
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the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have
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for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>First things first: I did enjoy the fact that the universe has gender roles
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inverted -- with women being considered "strong" and "intellectual" and men
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being the ones that want to look pretty -- and this is not throw at your face
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at every moment, although it gets explicit by the end of the book, but by
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then, you're already good with it.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, some things feel... weird. Not about the genders, but in
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the story itself. There is some great secret, something the main characters
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want to hide, doing a lot of schemes to conceal it and when it is said what it
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is... it feels dumb. Ok, someone is clumsy, but that's natural in someone's
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family and WHY THE HECK IS THAT A SECRET?!?</p>
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<p>Also weird are some dialogues. At some point, there is one character asking a
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question and getting annoyed at it at the same time, like he didn't like to
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hear the question he just asked. Some discussions just jump into conclusions
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-- in the right conclusions -- which, again, feels weird. And there is a short
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arc in the middle of it that leads absolutely nowhere. It is throw in the
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story, affects absolutely nothing and goes away without a trace.</p>
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<p>Maybe it's because I got the book from Humble Bundle and jumped straight into
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the 12 book of the series (the "Liaden Universe", although this is the first
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book about a sub-series of one of the characters, or so it seems), but I
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didn't feel compelled by any of the characters.</p>
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