I guess I just wanted to point out that Lyone and Bill were obvious plants to me, they didn't fit the Spy template either so I wasn't terribly shocked by their behavior. I also figured that Kolb was going to die as soon the final fight started, because he is the best fighter remaining and him being ...

I do feel that the interior monologue of too many characters bleed into each other. (you could take the names and book-specific concept out and the dialogue would be pretty much the same) I could be given a paragraph like that and would immediately realize it was a PS Power character. I still read t...

Biggest part of the delay is likely Big Publisher who usually take about 6 months minimum to edit promote and package a new book. Generally they only have so many slots and any year you see more than one or two books from an author is an exception. That's why the more prolific authors that go that r...

Not sure why this is a surprise. All of his other locations are based on real places. All the way down to the mall food court. Admittedly not the same vendors, though I am sure they have changed a lot since 1999 when I was there. Camas where the summer camp is a real location too. I installed some e...

Don't hate any characters in this series really. I find Grey to be extremely annoying but that is because of her one-sided mindset and not really anything else. I mean c'mon, that world was dying, killing off 98% of the population would actually be a good thing in the mind of a 3000 year old crazy ...

Oh, and don't think I am being THAT critical, I can't help analyzing. :) I lost like 4 days there, and a lot of that skimming was the result of running out of time but being too deep in the metastory to be willing to wait for another long stretch of uninterrupted time to see how it ended. I do feel ...

bah, had a long reply posted and the login timed out, erasing it when I tried to send. (one of the flaw of ubbs, its not the first time) Thanks for the additional info, Dale. I still feel a bit doubtful about running a full continental kingdom with footsoldiers and carriages. Post flight, yes. Even ...

Hey Red, if I may call you that, (I'm lazy that way) not really sure what world building issues are causing a problem for you, but as far as social structure goes I've always thought that Green' s meddling with genetic and psychological programming had pretty much stabilized any un-workability issu...

I gather that Nobles can keep growing into their 20s, it also seemed that they have a slightly longer lifespan but not as much longer as the extended growth would imply. Odd when paired with their very young age of adulthood. Its also interesting that it doesn't seem to affect the start of adolescen...

I think a little shorter than that, more like 5'11 or so. Maybe less, I think she only seems girlish because she is always hanging out with Nobles. I would guess that Cordes liked blondes and made the gene a bit stickier, its usually a recessive and rarely does body hair (Sara and Collette were both...