On my new read

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Need was such a seductive, dangerous word. Need was the vacancies. Need wasn't, dammit, love, not in any sense. If love was giving, it was the opposite of love, it drank love dry, it sucked logic after it, and it didn't ever output.

Not terribly catchy but good, I thought. Noteworthy enough for me to want to put it up here. That quote is from the second book in the series I've currently gotten sucked into , book titled Invader, series titled Foreigner (I believe) by C.J. Cherryh. The only other things I'd read by Cherryh were The Fortress in the Eye of Time set and some of her Morgaine series. Cherryh loves the intrigue and politically intricate plots, and Foreigner seems the epitome of it. The first book was interesting mainly because all of the events until the very end unfolded *around* the main character. I think it's hard to pull that off without alienating your readers...and I'm sure a lot of people would say Cherryh was unsucessful in her endeavor. I found an anchor in Bren-ji, though, and couldn't stop reading. I ran to the library yesterday and picked up the next four books in the series. I guess that means I'm going to slack a bit on the schoolwork. Or not.