Great cover illustration, disappointing book ( )

well written with a lot to like. I am struggling to connect with the main character, it feels like she has largely given up (I prefer fighting to the bitter end). For the series to work, she has to snap out of it at some point, but can I endure that long...
might return to finish the title as it is well written. ( )

I'm quite happy to have started this book. Stricly speaking, it is fantasy, but it reminded me quite a bit of the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey (which are fantasy). Finders seekers is about human beings on a different planet, where there is a telepathic cat-like race, the ghatts, that bonds with certain humans. These humans become Seekers, since their relationship with the ghatts makes them suitable for a career as judge: the ghatts can tell whether people speak the truth or not. Finders Seekers follows Doyce and her ghatta Khar. Doyce has had a hard life, and it is about to become more difficult when her lover is murdered in a highly suspicious way. The seekers believe something sinister is going on, and an investigation ensues...

What I like about Finder Seekers is that not all information is disclosed to the reader all at once. Slowly, you find out more about the secrets and intricacies of the world. I rather liked this writing style, although in the middle of the book, I wouldn't have minded if the pace would have picked up a bit. The world is very nice, in particular the ghatts and their relationship with their Seekers. Because of her past, Doyce has some trouble completely opening up to her ghatta, and the more you learn of her past, the more you feel for her, and hope she will find happiness.

I'm not completely satisfied about the ending. One of the revelations was sort of obvious(Doyce's stepson Vesey being alive and responsible for all the misery), and the way some of the issues were resolved (Vesey and Evelien dying) seemed a bit too easy for me. Still, the book was quite nice, and I'm definitely interested in the sequels. Part of the story had an open ending, so I would like to know what happens next. Plus, I always like fantasy books where women and men are treated equally, which is definitely the case here. Seekers are men and women both, eumedico's (doctors) are men and women both, and nobody makes an issue about it. Very well done. ( )

It's an amusing (although hardly unique) concept and an entertaining plot line.
While I COULD put the book down, I had no problems finishing it. ( )

This is one of those times when I look at the reviews on Amazon and have to double-check that we're talking about the same book. They were so universally positive that it almost made me want to go back and re-read the book to see if maybe I'd missed something. But it's a 500+ page book that I had to force myself to finish, so there's no way I'll be doing that.

On the world of Methuen, there's a sentient alien race called Ghatti, who look like oversized housecats. They can mind-speak among themselves, and bond and mind-speak with certain humans referred to as Seekers. A Seeker-Ghatt pair is able to discern truth, so they serve as something like circuit judges in the old west.

When a Seeker is killed and his Ghatt basically loses his mind, it's up to his friend and lover Doyce and her Ghatt Khar to solve the mystery.

There's really nothing new or exciting here. The Ghatts are just too precious, starting with the name. The concept was interesting--both the set-up with the bonded pairs and the mystery, and it did pick up once it was revealed whodunit, near the end, but it was just a chore to read.

I'm sure Finders, Seekers wouldn't have looked quite so dull if I hadn't read it right after Cursor's Fury, but it illustrates some of the comments I made--it's full of way too many characters with oddly-spelled names, and long passages of authorial intrusion--interminable descriptions of things the author wants the reader to know about the fantasy world.

Worse yet, too much of the narrative doesn't really have a point, and just bogs down the story. For example, we learn everything about Doyce's life history (in dreams, no less), and only a small portion of that has any bearing on what happens later.

This is the sort of book that made me stop reading fantasy in the first place. I just don't have the patience to sift through all the extraneous stuff to get to the story. Not my cuppa. ( )