cahn

Yes, I can see how that might happen, reading them all at once.

And both Clay's Ark and Patternmaster pretty much failed on the "I want at least one character i want to sit down and have a chat with over coffee/tea/cocoa/etc."

...That's part of what I mean about Butler being strange, actually. I find very few of her characters to be people I would be comfortable spending time with, though many of them are rather fascinating.