Killashandra (Crystal Singer Trilogy)

As with all Anne McAffrey books this is a fine work. The Crystal Singers are a breed apart, the planet on which they work the crystal from has a deadly secret. One which both lenghten's their lifespans and can destroy them if they stay away to long.....

Another series to collect for my library. This is the last one I needed. Like McCaffrey's tales a lot.

This has got to be one of my all time favorite characters in SCI-FI. Anne Mccaffrey has a fine sense of detail without smothering you in them. This book is eclipsed only by one other similar book, it's predicessor Crystal Singer. Buy them, buy them all. Crystal Singer, Killashandra, Crystal Line. Read and thrill with Killa as I do. Ramjet

The first Killashandra Crystal Singer stories were in a series of sci-fi books that serialized short stories. The Crystal Singer story was expanded and the first book, Crystal Singer, was put out in novel form. I recommend you read Crystal Singer first as it sets the stage for this, a continuation of the story.Killashandra finishes her apprenticeship in the first novel as a Crystal Singer, a miner of crystal on the planet Ballybran. Crystal Singers are a special breed; they must possess perfect pitch and be able to adapt to the unique rigors of Ballybran. They mine the valuable crystal with its energy properties by singing in tune with a sonic cutter. The geometric crystal forms are sold through their Guild for high prices throughout the Galaxy to be used in power drives and many other types of equipment. Singing is hazardous work, though it provides some unusual advantages. After one of Ballybran's gigantic Mach Storms ruins Killashandra's mine claim of valuable black crystal, she must take an assignment that, again, has much more under the surface that meets the eye. She must tear herself away from the Guildmaster, her love interest, but finds that even though she is destined to lose him, another awaits her on a far planet. Fine reading and part of an excellent trilogy.

This book's title is markedly different from the other two in the trilogy. Appropriately, I think, for this is not a book about Crystal Singers. No, this book is entirely about Killashandra Ree, as she discovers true love. There is also a conspiracy to be fought, but Killashandra seems too busy with her feelings to pay it much attention, and so does the book. :-)At one point I rated it 4 because it simply did not deal with crystal singers, the story I had been looking for since the first book. That story I found in the trilogy's last book, and that enabled me to look back at this one as a satisfying book, with a sound story and a sense of completion at the end.