Stephanie Harrington always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl. Series:Honorverse (Young Adult with Jane Lindskold).Outside of a brief scene where Stephanie is irratated by some kids from town and another where a 16-year-old boy is described as being on site while she practices shooting, she does not spend time actually interacting with other teenagers. I think that is one of the major flaws of this book from a young-adult fiction standpoint. The rest involves Stephanie Harrington and some adults trying to protect the treecats from outsiders. The first third of the book is the short story "A Beautiful Friendship" from Worlds of Honor. I have high hopes that the other books in this spin-off series (written with Jane Lindskold) will be executed a bit better. It's a shame because the story ideas are good. Most youth would find this book slow-paced and a little condescending. Review 2: David Weber does not write for young adults, he writes to them. Good offshoot from the Honor Harrington series, probably for a younger audience. Sphinx is an interesting world, well elaborated.
Look, other treecat is falling from a tree." This doesn't require that any actual words be exchanged.Overall, great setting. If the treecats are as complex thinkers are the narration implies, surely they have the ability to use objects as symbols? "This stone is me, this stone is another treecat. And Stephanie's "oh, I am just reading their body language". more te with those two legs" a bit irritating. I did find the treecats' repeated statements of "oh, why can't we communica. If the POV shifts throughout the story, it is less disorienting. Once I have become really tightly attuned to one POV, finding myself suddenly inside a stranger's head is a bit disconcerting. Because this book started as three stories, these major characters aren't introduced until the 1/3 and 2/3 points. It may be just my personal preference, rather than a flaw in the book, but I find it very jarring when third person omniscient narration shifts to new character not previously introduced. The reader had slight tendency to make the females whiny, but it wasn't so bad I had to stop listening. I liked it, but I think it feels cobbled together.
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