Belarus and Enemies by Lee Hogan: Not Quite a Review
I finished a book! This doesn’t happen as often as it once did.
A friend loaned me two books by Lee Hogan; Belarus and Enemies. They were very good, and quite different, not just for their Russian flavor. If it says anything about them, I look forward to being able to read the next one when presumably the bigger picture it’s been building toward comes to the fore.
Toward the end, I realized that the style and tone reminded me somewhat of C.J. Cherryh, and someone else whose name now escapes me, perhaps done better. Which implies the books won’t be for everyone.
Some of the technology and ideas are a nice escape from the mundane, if you can call your average science fiction (with a tinge of fantasy) “mundane.”
Anyway, now I have to select something else for bedside reading. I’ve been cruising through the hardcover of State of Fear in the reading room at the same time, so am most of the way through that too. I expect to have more to say on that than I did on Lee Hogan’s books. Which appear to be her first, but are not, as she also writes under another name.
I have a whole stack of possible reading picked out for Deb, but I hadn’t thought about it for me…
Update:
The other author I was thinking of was Iain M. Banks. whose stuff I have never quite decided to really like or not. Based on the two I have read, he has a knack for ambiguous flow of story, if that description makes any sense.
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