As usual, a very informative and enlightening post from Tarzanless Tangor, quite apart from the subject matter itself. Tara aside, I enjoyed everything about this book, too. I thought the Kaldane/Rykor concept, and Ghek himself, to be extremely imaginative, and I woudn't have minded another book with these creatures.

Unfortunately, in contrast to Tangor's fountain of knowledge, this post will inevitably become a dribble of drivel.

It's clear to me that Ghek himself couldn't resist the limitless charms of fair Tara, body or no body. Songs weren't the only thing going through that big head when she was around, in my view.

I don't know how any intelligent race could possibly engage in bisexual anything once she dropped into the warrens. If I was a kaldane, I would have seen the immediate lunacy of this practice once I met her, even if she did run off with some jed in the end.

Barbarians are not so different from kaldanes/rykors, in some respects. Our bodies are our weaknesses, at least when it comes to girls, and although we engage more in cross-dressing than cross-breeding, we don't care too much whether it's pain or pleasure of flesh; only that Tara is the one involved in the whole process. It isn't only the intelligent who get led astray with this girl. This whole mounting concept makes me dizzy.

Who cares what color she is? A few weeks of scuba-diving and laying around in the sun, drinking Pina Coladas and Coronas in Cozumel and Belize, will take care of that.

Well, enough about Tara of Helium, as least for this post. This post makes me want to read the book again, not that I need much motivation to read about the ultimate princess.

Tarak