Review: Bloodhype, Alan Dean Foster
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jeriendhalSummary: When the carnivorous and thoroughly imperialistic AAnn find a mysterious, world circling lifeform called the Vom, they transport it to their nearest imperial enclave on the Humanx Commonwealth world of Repler for study. unfortunately the Vom also studies while it gathers strength and plots to escape.
Meanwhile,oversexed Jane Bond wannabe United Church agent Kitten Kai-Sung and her Tolian partner Porsupah are on the trail of the manufacturers of Bloodhype, a drug so powerful and addictive that the smallest dose could mean eventual death. Along the way they're helped by Mal Hammurabi, a freighter captain who finds a shipment of Bloodhype in his cargo, and mysterious young man with a pet flying snake...
Review: This is one of the weirder books in the Flinx series, given that he shows up about halfway through and plays a minor role at best. He's overshadowed by Hammurabi and Kitten, the latter probably holding the unfortunate distinction of being the most irritating female character Foster has ever written. Which is doubly weird because in the Audible Recorded Books intro he claims he let her take over the story when it originally started as a more Flinx oriented novel. She proves to be totally incompetent at her job, getting captured three times in course of her duties by the bad guys, and isn't defined by much more than an argumentive personality and a tendency to screw anything on two feet, which even her partner calls her out on.
Honestly, the most likeable characters in the book are the AAnn, who may bring a deadly alien monster to Repler and like to consider the possibilities of tasty human flesh, but act reasonably cautious (with one major exception) and despise drug pushers.
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Review: This is one of the weirder books in the Flinx series, given that he shows up about halfway through and plays a minor role at best. He's overshadowed by Hammurabi and Kitten, the latter probably holding the unfortunate distinction of being the most irritating female character Foster has ever written. Which is doubly weird because in the Audible Recorded Books intro he claims he let her take over the story when it originally started as a more Flinx oriented novel. She proves to be totally incompetent at her job, getting captured three times in course of her duties by the bad guys, and isn't defined by much more than an argumentive personality and a tendency to screw anything on two feet, which even her partner calls her out on.
Honestly, the most likeable characters in the book are the AAnn, who may bring a deadly alien monster to Repler and like to consider the possibilities of tasty human flesh, but act reasonably cautious (with one major exception) and despise drug pushers.
