Reviews for Argo

The average rating for Argo based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-22 00:00:00 Christopher James Meh, I dislike how this book treats Enslaved Folks. It really brought home for me how uncomfortable the portrayal of Enslaved Folks in this feels not just in this particular book but in this series a whole. I think it's more obvious in this book because of the experiences of Kelric. Enslaved Folks as a group can best be characterized as an ingenue: innocent, naïve and in most cases intelligent but unbelievably & unrealistically ignorant. The Enslaved characters largely exist as extensions of their owners and are treated as such in the books. Most especially if they born into this of parents who have been enslaved as well. Pains are taken to distinguish between Skolians & even Allieds, who are unfit for slavery and those born into it who are innocent & ignorant to fight back. As the descendant of Enslaved peoples I'm insulted at this literary oversight. This author should've done research on how societies with large Enslaved populations behave. The reality is that pretty much all modern music in the USA and even abroad is the product of Enslaved West Africans from Jazz to Rap to Rock and Roll to Country. The West African Diaspora hid their religions from home in the religion forced upon by their captors/enslavers. Everything from style, to speech, to dance no part of western culture has not been influenced by not just West Africans but Asians and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. That's kinda missing and this view of slavery is presented more like certain folks tend to view those who were enslaved under the 'lost cause' narrative. I'm sure none of that is intended by the author and there is a lot of story here and I think she chose to develop other aspects of her worldbuilding. I think this suffers from inattention and not malice. Still it grates. There's never been slavery without resistance and mass revolts. I know it's set in space and the future but fucking yikes Review from 2018: This is a significant improvement over the first installment in Kelric's story, The Last Hawk. Kelric is an interesting character. In many ways he reminds me of a softer version of Soz. That said I'm uncomfortable with the way slavery and the suggestion that an Enslaved person could consent to sex with a person holding them in captivity is uncomfortable. Otherwise I think this installment in the saga.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-20 00:00:00 Hansjoerg Uhl Hearing that Kelric was going to end up as a provider I kept thinking, hasn't the man suffered enough? I liked how everything ended up working but I so wanted him to realize that Jaibriol III is Saus's son.