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One of the best in the Wess'Har series. In the first couple of books, Traviss' aliens suffered from "Planet of Hats" (look it up on TV Tropes if you don't know what that is) but it's blown away in this book by the Eqbas showing up - the wess'har's ancestral civilisation, separated by ten thousand years, vastly more powerful than the wess'har we thought were advanced in the first two books. Humans are in for even bigger shocks. The cultural and philosophical divergence between eqbas and wess'har is described with a verisimilitude that continues to flesh out the wess'har as a species and takes away the Planet of Hats feeling. The main characters continue to be great - I've never seen a science fiction series that covered both war and romance so well. (this is book 3 in a 6-book series and the only one I thought was really meh was the 6th which felt like an afterthought, as the main conflicts were wrapped up in 5.)


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The World Before The Wess'har Wars Karen Traviss 9780060541729 Books Reviews

How to live with the consequences of your choices.

This is the dilemma Traviss' characters circle in this latest installment of Wess'har series, begun in 2004 with City of Pearl and followed in 2005 with Crossing the Line.

Journalist Eddie Michallat worries that by helping the Wess'har he has lost his objectivity. The Wess'ej on F'nar fear their way of life will be ruined by the arrival of their brethren from Eqbas Vhor, the titular World Before, from whom they have been separated for over ten millennia. The Isenj prime minister commits an act of political betrayal in hopes of convincing his countrymen to seek the help of the Wess'ej in rebalancing the ecology of their overpopulated world. Shan Frankland weighs the risk of an imminent restructuring of Earth's ecosystem by the Wess'ej from Eqbas Vhor.

This is not the future of Star Trek's Federation, where humans act benevolently in their exploration of the cosmos. In Traviss' universe, humans are as we know them today - greedy, grasping, intolerant, and ready to kill for advantage. No longer the preeminent power in the universe, humans must now learn to accept limits to their expansion imposed from afar by a more powerful species.

Besides a refreshingly candid portrait of homo sapiens, what distinguishes this series of novels is Traviss' development of character. The players grow and learn as a result of their experience and Traviss is not afraid to explore faults in her heroes, or redeeming qualities in her villains. Naval commander Lindsay, for example, once in charge of the Thetis mission and now responsible for setting off a nuclear device that results in the near extinction of the aquatic Bezer'ej, learns to deny her selfish desires for revenge and for her own death by choosing to spend the rest of her life helping the Bezer'ej to rebuild their society.

Aside from a few contemporary references that don't seem to fit in the world of the 24th century (such as white boards at managerial meetings), there is little with which to find fault in Traviss' writing. This series is well conceived and expertly drawn. I don't read many books a second time, especially fiction, but these novels were worth it. I look forward to the story's conclusion and hope that Traviss has the ability to finish with as much skill and aplomb as she began.
"The World Before" is the third book in the Wess'har war series by Karen Traviss. As with the book before it, "Crossing The Line", the action here picks up right where the last book finished with Aras dealing with the loss of his "isan", Shan, and Ade dealing with his new life carrying the same symbiont that Shan spaced herself to keep out of Earth's government's hands. Meanwhile. the wess'har on F'Nar must deal with the arrival of their long-separated ancestors, the Eqbas Vhor, now summoned to deal with the human threat and growing unrest and upheaval among the Isenj.

Upheaval and change abound here for all characters, human and alien--including a perhaps not-very-surprising return from the dead for one character. Also crucial to the plotline in this book is determining how to deal with those responsible for the near-extinction of the marine bezeri in the last book, which leads to pivotal events near the end that set up a major plotline for the rest of this series (or so I imagine; I'm only one more book along at this point.)

Traviss keeps us engaged through her well-developed characters, and many thoughtful debates between the humans and aliens over morality, responsibility, environmental responsibility, religion, relationships and punishment. At times I did find scenes repetitive, however, as some characters keep repeating their same arguments and feelings over and over again. The author also has a tendency to keep rehashing or summarizing past events and facts about her characters and the world she has created. This is perhaps helpful to those who have taken a break between reading each book, but if you're reading them one right after another as I have been, it can feel like unnecessary word-count padding.

But these are minor concerns at this point. Overall I was very pleased with this book and considered it a worthy addition to the series. It left me hungry to pick up with the next book right away, as while a few things are resolved, much is still left hanging in the future for the next book(s) to come...
One of the best in the Wess'Har series. In the first couple of books, Traviss' aliens suffered from "Planet of Hats" (look it up on TV Tropes if you don't know what that is) but it's blown away in this book by the Eqbas showing up - the wess'har's ancestral civilisation, separated by ten thousand years, vastly more powerful than the wess'har we thought were advanced in the first two books. Humans are in for even bigger shocks. The cultural and philosophical divergence between eqbas and wess'har is described with a verisimilitude that continues to flesh out the wess'har as a species and takes away the Planet of Hats feeling. The main characters continue to be great - I've never seen a science fiction series that covered both war and romance so well. (this is book 3 in a 6-book series and the only one I thought was really meh was the 6th which felt like an afterthought, as the main conflicts were wrapped up in 5.)