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title: "Intruder (Foreigner series Book 13)"
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# Intruder (Foreigner series Book 13)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Another engaging page-turner in Cherryh's Foreigner series
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2023*

A comfortable visit from the lord of the space station. Excitement from the aiji's son's monkey-like pet. A crisis in the aiji's marriage. Fruition of the dowager's trade agreement with the young lord of the South. Altogether a satisfying read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A fine and entertaining installment, if not quite as riveting as most of the series.
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2021*

This is book thirteen in a long-running science fiction series that began with Foreigner (1994) and currently numbers twenty-one books.  I've hugely enjoyed the first thirteen books.The series, at least thus far, centers on Bren Cameron, a human translator and mediator living among aliens. Bren's thoughts are shown in a depth that I found fascinating and highly immersive. This careful meticulous detail reminds me of reading L. E. Modesitt, Jr., though Cherryh's themes are not Modesitt's. I note that some readers find the level of detail an annoyance and the pace slow. I do not. I also note that I found the starts of many of the books their weakest point.Spoilers ahead. Through Bren, the books conjure an intricate alien civilization, one in which words such as "friend" and "love" have no close equivalent, and in which there is an official, highly-respected Assassins Guild. The depiction of the atevi alien civilization is excellent: a great strength of the series. The conspiracies, secrets, intrigue are compelling: another strength of the series. But the primary reason I love these books is Bren. He's ethical, compassionate, courageous, thoughtful, often worried, often hard on himself. I grew attached to Bren in book one, and am, by now, entirely smitten.I'm also very fond of several of the supporting characters, especially the assassins Banichi and Jago, and the elderly grande dame, Ilisidi. The plot builds from book to book, with developments from the small and personal to those of sweeping impact. While there are gripping action scenes, there are also many scenes where the action amounts to conversation and the eating of tea cakes, albeit often high-stakes conversation.While Bren remains the principal character, books nine through thirteen include scenes from the perspective of Cajieri, the eight-year-old heir apparent. Book thirteen progresses the main thread of recent books concerning the future of the Marid, and interweaves it with a domestic thread about Cajieri's acquistion of a pet and tensions within the ruling household. The book is an important piece in the long-running plot, but is comparatively understated. While I was always eager to read more, I wasn't frantic to do so in the way that I had been during book twelve.Four out of five wax-sealed stars.About my reviews: I try to review every book I read, including those that I don't end up enjoying. The reviews are not scholarly, but just indicate my reaction as a reader, reading being my addiction. I am miserly with 5-star reviews; 4 stars means I liked a book very much; 3 stars means I liked it; 2 stars means I didn't like it (though often the 2-star books are very popular with other readers and/or are by authors whose other work I've loved).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good, but not what I hoped for
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 9, 2012*

I had been waiting eagerly for this one for a while since it seemed to have had a long gap since the last one. I had also been eagerly looking forward to the start of another trilogy-set in this series. However, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in this one, though it's not really the fault of the book.I love this series for three reasons: 1) Cherryh's use of language is fantastic, both in her English narrative as well as her English-rendition of the Ragi language, 2) her exploration of the mixed psychologies of human and alien (Atevi) and the political problems they generate has been fascinating, and 3) the stakes have always been high with the political ramification reaching out from the quaint villages into interstellar space.The first trilogy developed the world and hinted at the interstellar politics that were about to crash down on them. The second trilogy had Bren going out to face those politics and solve them. The third trilogy dealt with the fallout of what happened while he was gone. The fourth trilogy dealt with more fallout from the time they were gone. And... you guessed it, this fifth trilogy opens with even more fallout from the time they were gone.All the while there is another bit of interstellar politics looming over their heads, with its promised arrival date any day now.Or more to the point, any book now.So I was really expecting this trilogy to open with the resurgence of the interstellar problem that was left open during the second trilogy. And MINI-SPOILER, it didn't. In fact, so strong was my expectation that I went through most of the book expecting it to pop up at the most inconvenient moment, or at the very least, at the end in a sort of cliff-hanger/teaser for the next book. But it didn't.Yes, the political intrigue was suspenseful, and I'm really enjoying the growing relationship between Tabini (essentially the king) and his young son Cajeiri. I'm also intrigued by the increasingly visible fractures in the ever-secretive Assassin's Guild, and I really like what it's showing us about the back stories of Bren's bodyguards.But this is the seventh book in a row dealing with the political fallout of what happened when Bren was away in space. How many more will there be before we get back to that looming interstellar crisis? I feel a bit like I'm complimenting an endless line of chicken dishes, all the while craving another taste of beef.And yet it was good, so I can't really fault it for dashing my own expectations. So, I'm giving it a qualified thumbs-up.

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