Wendy Darling

Storm stumbled onto this story on the primary Wraeththu fan site and felt it was so in the spirit of her created realm that it deserved to be published proper. The stuff dreams are made of!

Ah well. I did really like it. It is the story of a very minor character who did not figure into the canon plot until the second book of the second trilogy, Lisia. Lisia was one of many secretly selected breeders kept in a facility to procreate with soldiers of a particularly vile Wraeththu tribe to keep their ranks replenished. The thing that makes this book stand apart from the rest, other than it was obviously not written by Storm, is that it deals with the question of the feminine aspect of Wraeththu head-on. The other books did not, and even later when Wraeththu began to understand more about themselves and the divergent other tribe that is originated from human females, there was still very much a masculine dominance. This book lacked Storm's established voice, but it was very well done, nonetheless. It fit into the mythos quite well. I must say that it is riddled with typos, which seemed to originate from poor typesetting rather than bad editing. Also, it is written as a plot in the present inset with flashbacks to Lisia's diary. There was one such inset that seemed out of place and affected the power punch climax the book was supposed to have. It didn't ruin it, it just really would have fit better in a different order. I was also reading it speed of light and didn't want to put it down, so it may well be that I missed some subtle tie-in that made its organization tight, as is.… (más)