Although I attended all of Julie Czerneda’s book launches, I waited for her to finish this entire series to start reading it. This one is Reunification #1 and it was launched in 2015. I got it with a nice autograph at the Bakka Phoenix Bookstore launch.
Now, I know I said this is the first in a series, but actually it’s the first book in the third trilogy inside a three trilogies series, called “The Clan Chronicles”. Julie is an expert in creating vast, sophisticated worlds with huge casts of characters, that needs at least a trilogy to explore the whole universe and the entire plot.
And I promise you, once you get inside one of her worlds you won’t want to leave.
Not only because of the nerve-racking plots and beautifully done characters, but also because the surprising secrets her universes always hide. Oh, yes, there’s never only the interesting story that keeps you reading in Julie’s case. The secrets start being revealed in the second half of the book and their significance rises exponentially. When you’re done with a book you can’t wait to get your hands on the second and see what happens next.
I feel like, despite the magnitude of her work, Julie Czerneda is not as known as she deserves. For the kind of galactic tapestries she weaves and the kind of major ideas she comes up with, she should be among the Grand Masters of Science Fiction, read by millions and translated in over a hundred languages.
Well, give her a couple more years and she’ll be just there.
