![]() ![]() (And he does so very little that is right.) He complains. He’s a celebrity, and the text seems uncertain how to present it to the reader – what happens is very close to the Paris Hilton effect – even before he does anything wrong, you’re not quite disposed to like him. He’s a teenager, and is described quite exhaustively in terms that would fit quite well in a romance novel. ![]() The opening of the novel is almost deliberately geared to make one dislike Ryan. ![]() And the boy is doing Silver, Austro’s version of pure recreational drug. And recently, ever so recently, he was a bystander at a terrorist attack in Hongkong, an attack aimed at least partially at his paternal grandfather (Admiral Ashrafi, who adopted Cairo when he was eighteen – a full year younger than Ryan is now). He’s met his father in the flesh thrice his entire life. He is the son of a daringly rebellious war hero (Cairo Azarcon, whom we saw a great deal of in Warchild) and Austro’s public relations officer (Songlien Lau, who is sleeping with Ryan’s bodyguard, Tim Sidney/Sid). Burndive delivers, but it is a very different novel, and in some ways, I think, more ambitious. I only heard of Lowachee a year ago, and so cannot be certain, but given that Warchild won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award I imagine that hopes ran high for Burndive, with people wondering if it could match Warchild’s bitter fluency. It functions as a sequel/stand-alone related novel to Warchild. Karin Lowachee‘s Burndive was published by Warner Aspect around 2003. ![]()
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