Book Excerpt for the Day

    The homes were different.  While mostly silver or white in color, they were muc closer in physical appearance to the buildings I’d seen in Riverfork.  They stood three or four stories in height at most, and they all had the same steep roofs.  Many of the buildings were connected by bridges because, as I later learned, the Tal’mar dread setting foot on soil.  They believe it lowers them to the status of humans, whom many of them feel are little more than hairless apes.

    (from The Tinkerer’s Daughter by Jamie Sedgwick)

    7½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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