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This book has a number of flaws but it does one thing well - the author is very inventive in creating a zoo of fantastic/magical animals. Those passages describing the animals, their behaviour and their enclosures are the best part of the book. She also seems to be rather knowledgable about the work behind the scenes of a zoo. If you're in any part critical of zoos, though, this book would be very frustrating. The only criticism is only presented once and is rather superficial. I appreciate the effort of the author to make the protagonist someone with anxiety but unfortunately, she comes off as rather annoying and also immature for someone her age for about half of the book. There thankfully is some character growth eventually. The pace picks up at around the halfway mark and while the mystery turns out to be somewhat predictable in the end, I enjoyed the book overall. Objectively, it only merits 3 stars but it felt more like 4, so I'll settle at 3.5.

I really like the way that Interference takes the themes from its predecessor and extends them in different directions, without just being like "and this is the next thing that happened to all the same characters".

I particularly enjoyed the way she wove in the contingent from Earth - it reminded me strongly of the later books in the Planetfall series.

New humans, new life forms, new explorations - it builds a great new story on the foundation laid in Semiosis.

I loved the setting of this book - at a fancy party in a ballroom in ever stranger worlds. The world building was very inventive with the various Echos, the more or less evil supernatural beings, the guilds and the quirky teashop. Perhaps, the author could have gone into more depth here and there. The main story is a sort of detective mystery with a dash of romance. I appreciated how the main character is a new mother and how that's handled. There are a few minor things that keep it from being 5 stars but I found it a thoroughly entertaining read.

Someone wrote, the book reminded them of Star Trek, in a good way. And yeah, I get it now! I guess book 2 has to be different (won't spoiler, but book 1 brings... closure) - but will definitely check it out.

War auf einer Lesung bzw Performance des Trios. Mit Soundeffekten, Livedrawing, spontaner Kreativität und dem Bühnentalent von Kling hatte das durchaus was! Da gab's halt Ausschnitte, die auch gut in einen Kontext gesetzt wurden. Nur auf dieser Erinnerung basierend ringe ich mir 3 Sterne ab.

Habe es jetzt bei der Onleihe ausgeliehen und bin sehr froh, nix bezahlt zu haben. Alles sehr wirr, dachte manchmal, versehentlich Seiten geskippt zu haben. Aber der Plot hing wirklich einfach nur so "luftig in der Luft".

Im Grunde ein Remix von bekannten und ehrlich gesagt teilweise in die Jahre gekommenen Kling-Themen bzw. der immer ähnlich angesetzten Figuren-Perspektive. Das wäre OK, wenn sich alles zusammen auch progressiv weiter entwickeln würde. Warum geht es da nicht mehr vorwärts?

Gibt Witziges, klar. Aber gerade der wiederkehrende, so unnötige Sexismus enttäuscht mich. Hatte auch nicht mit Brutalität gerechnet oder damit, dass es erst mit dem zweiten Teil abgeschlossen sein wird und hier im Showdown abbricht. Am Ende also alles ein weiterer Profitbaustein? Mein Tipp: Kein Geld dafür ausgeben.