Freedom's Ransom: 4 (Freedom Novel) - Softcover

McCaffrey, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441010202 ISBN 13: 9780441010202

Publisher: Ace Books, 2003

Synopsis

Enslaved on an uninhabited planet by the alien Eosi, Kristin Bjornsen and her fellow humans not only survived against all odds to colonize the world now known as Botany, but liberated themselves from their captors and claimed it as their home...

The colonists could not have achieved victory without the help of the exiled Catteni alien, Zainal, who helped Kris contact other races subjugated by the Eosi, and inspired the rebellion that freed them all. To ensure Botany's future, its people must build alliances.

In the wake of alien devastation, Earth has been looted of its technology--technology Botany desperately needs. If Kris and Zainal can reclaim the stolen goods, they can assist Earth while setting a foundation for Botany's place in the universe...

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Review:

In Freedom's Ransom, the fourth part of the Catteni sequence, Anne McCaffrey brings the massive saga of interplanetary looting and a desperate struggle for the survival of a race to a breathless conclusion. Earth has been ransacked by the greedy merchants of Barevi, who are demanding a ransom before they will return all they have looted. The resourceful Zainal (Catteni by race, but now leader of the multiracial domain of Botany) needs some of the spoils for his desperate people, and undertakes a dangerous strategy: to ransom the ransomers and snatch back the items so urgently needed.

As in everything she's written, McCaffrey practices a perfect economy in her description of strange and alien locales, conjuring up exotic landscapes with maximum vividness, and the reader comes to know the various worlds in Freedom's Ransomas well as the strongly-drawn characters. Zaina is one of McCaffrey's most persuasive protagonists, and as we approach the carefully orchestrated climax, we're happy to sacrifice subtleties of characterisation for the induced adrenalin rush. So many fantasy sequences come unstuck in their final volume; McCaffrey is too sure a hand to fall at the last fence, and aficionados need not hesitate.--Barry Forshaw

Review:

"Masterly [and] memorable."--Booklist "Touching and humorous."--Publishers Weekly

"Touching and humorous."--Publishers Weekly

"McCaffrey is masterly at creating universes and characters so memorable that readers can slip comfortably back into [her] world...Full of humorous events as well as excitement, the fourth entry in McCaffrey's Freedom series will be relished by fans."--Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0441010202
• ISBN 13: 9780441010202
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304