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by: Louise Marley  List Price: $6.99 Price: $0.78 You Save: $6.21 (89%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780441011070 ISBN: 0441011071 Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: April 27, 2004 Publisher: Ace Release Date: April 27, 2004 Studio: Ace Related Items:
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 Rating:  - What resistance?The Maquisarde is the story of Ebriel, a woman who loses her husband and daughter in a supposed terrorist attack. Distraught with bereavement, she is offered the opportunity to join the Chain, a self-styled "resistance" movement. Running parallel with her story is that of James, a military officer with a troubled past of his own, who begins to doubt the integrity of those he serves. And then their paths finally cross . . . I wanted to like this book better than I actually did. I found the setting ... Read More Rating:  - An Interesting PremiseI enjoyed this book. The transformation of Ebriel from a rather self-centered musician to a revolutionary was interesting, as were the out-of-the ordinary locales uses in the book. It was an interesting change-of-pace story. I did have a few quibbles with it, though. Given the fact that the Line of Demarcation was an artificial construct, drawn after nuclear and biochemical warfare, it just seemed a little strange to me that drift didn't seem to be taken into consideration. There also didn't ... Read More Rating:  - Splendid Evocation of a Bleak FutureLouise Marley's "The Maquisarde" is among the best novels I've read set in the late 21st Century. With respect to style and tone, it most closely resembles John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" cyberpunk trilogy, especially since it deals with many of the same issues which Shirley wrote about years ago. "The Maquisarde" is a compelling saga about French flutist Ebriel Serique, who loses her husband and young daughter in a terrorist attack which she blames on the military leader of the International Cooperative ... Read More Rating: - Good, butI've enjoyed Marley's work before, but this one left me a bit disappointed. Mostly that was because I was reading it during the days of the Beslan tragedy, when real resistance/rebel fighters took real lives. This book was just too tv-like for me by the end. Everything was neatly wrapped up - sure there was work left to do, but it was just work, not the Big Struggle. I will say that Marley writes well, and I will continue to read her books. Rating: - Some of Marley's best work to date--a fine sci-fi novelI actually liked "Maquisarde" better than "Glass Harmonica", Marley's award-winning novel. The premise, a resistance against an evil corporate-government entity is not unique, but this is a well-handled rendering of the subject. The novel is in some ways reminiscent of Marge Piercey's "He, She, and It" though without Piercey's richness in creating a future world. Ebriel, a French flutist, loses her family in a shocking event which is covered up. She goes on a heroic quest to bring the perpetrators ... Read More 
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