Cherryh, CJ - Gate of Ivrel

[oyceter]

An alien race once travelled everywhere via gates, but something in the technology made it so that a) the alien race didn't survive and b) the existence of gates still is a threat to the world.

Or, um, something like that.

Morgaine is a legend in Vanye's world, which explains Vanye's surprise when she appears in front of him after he's exiled from his clan. He becomes something like a bond-servant to her and her quest to destroy all the gates.

Unfortunately, I read this while my brain was going wonky, and as such, I don't remember much of it at all. The prose is rather old-fashioned in that old-fashioned fantasy way, and no one has a sense of humor. I really like Morgaine's type, but I had a difficult time getting in the story because of all the honor systems and assorted clans and the formality of the language, for some reason.

But I still want to read more books in the Morgaine cycle, just because of the ending of this book, which made up for much of the Clans and the language and etc.

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I liked the cycle for many of the same reasons, and this is despite coming in at Exile's Gate (it was on a Please Read, Kids! kinda bookshelf in one of my English teacher's classrooms) and having to backtrack for the first three when I made it to the States.

And, well, overt humor not a typical feature of Cherryh protagonists. They're too busy being run down/running things down. The woman rarely ever lets up on the poor people.

[oyceter]

Oh cool! I mean to pick up other books, just because the Vanye-Morgaine relationship fascinates me. I only wish that there had been more of it in this book, because I couldn't keep all the Clans straight in my head.