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give this three and a half but, since I can't do that in Goodreads, the flaws in the writing style made me pull it down towhich is still a very satisfactory rating, by the way.
As with the first book Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore, Tepper's imaginary worlds and their connection to this novel's real world are what make the book shine.
It is worth reading simply for those although I enjoyed the overall story well enough that this is probably my third or fourth time through the series.
Not one of the author's best but still entertaining, When Marianne's parents died, leaving control of their fortune to her feared older brother, she struggled to make her way as a student in America and her old home began to seem as unreal as a fairy tale, her childhood there as distant as a dream.
. . Until the Magus came to claim her, and the Black Madame to destroy her, and the Manticore to hunt her down through the streets of another world for there is magic in Marianne's blood, and magic in her soul.
And in a battle fought in an everchanging world of warped time and wicked magic, it is the souls of Marianne and her family that are the ultimate prizes.
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods is the second volume of Sheri S, Tepper's acclaimed Marianne Trilogy. Eh, I got bored. Really thought the romance would work for me, but it just wasn't developed, reread now makes more sense in context with Manticore Very cool book, It doesn't need to be longer, because it manages to fit everything in and yet still run smoothly.
I wasn't
too lost for reading it without reading the first one, which was good, The momegs are cute characters, I'm going to track down the others now, The opening chapter of this book explains the hasty ending of the previous, which is a plus, This book also has the wonderful dream worlds of the previous, The author manages to create worlds where each step follows logically from the previous one but, taken as a whole, makes no sense at all just like a dream.
She has an impressive imagination,
On the down side, this book also ends abruptly, However, the amusement provided by the momegs and, in particular, Makr Avehl's experience as Prince Charming more than makes up for that flaw for me.
This second book of the Marianne trilogy just isn't as good as the first, The settings no longer hold the cameolike perfection of the first book, Marianne due, perhaps, to the things she herself turns out to have done is no longer such an engaging heroine.
The other characters are less clearly drawn than before, And the plot well, it explains the ending of the first book, which was a bit outoftheblueish, and puts an actual end to the affair of Madame Delubovoska, but it has a certain mundane feel to it that just isn't what I expected or wanted.
Overall, somewhat disappointing, As might be intuited by their playful alliterative titles, Sheri S, Tepper's trilogy of Marianne booksMarianne, the Magus, and the Manticore, followed by Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods and Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouseare lighthearted caprices.
Written early in her career, they're also the shortest of Tepper's output,
Yet they're not slight in content, Tepper's heroine becomes trapped in a series of alternate, fantasy universes, each with their own oddball and inexorable set of rules from which she must puzzle her way out.
Imagination as a wild creative force, and specifically the concept of being trapped in worlds created by the imagination of others, is a conceit that Tepper explores again to deeper and more tragic effect in her later novel, Beauty.
But in these short works Marianne's determination to prevail is charming and humorous, . . and sometimes her determination to reshape history in her favor is even a little frightening,
If the third book in the trilogy is a little less compelling than its predecessors, it's simply because the antagonist of the piece never appears until near the Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods's very end, and it's difficult to take him as much of a threat compared to the terrifying Madame of the first two entries.
Still, all three books are among Tepper's most whimsical, and can easily be consumed in an afternoon or two.
It was okay. Sheri Stewart Tepper was a prolific American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels she was particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant.
Born near Littleton, Colorado, for most of her careershe worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, where she eventually became Executive Director.
She has two children and is married to Gene Tepper, She operated a guest ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, She wrote under several pseudonyms, including sitelink A, J. Orde, sitelink E. E. Horlak, and sitelink B. J. Oliphant. Her early work was published under the name Sheri S, Eberhart. Sheri Stewart Tepper was a prolific American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels she was particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant.
Born near Littleton, Colorado, for most of her careershe worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, where she eventually became Executive Director.
She has two children and is married to Gene Tepper, She operated a guest ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, She wrote under several pseudonyms, including sitelink A, J. Orde, sitelink E. E. Horlak, and sitelink B. J. Oliphant. Her early work was published under the name Sheri S, Eberhart. sitelink.