Review: Fully Realized World and Creatures!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2013
I don't usually read science fiction without humans — or at the very least human-like beings — so reading Vokhtah was venturing outside my reading comfort zone. At first I was confused by the creatures of this forbidding planet, but A.C. Flory managed to pull me into their truly original and strange world. I was captivated by the "theatrical performance" early in the novel, a retelling of an important part of their history & mythology at a gathering. It was at that point that I became curiously attached to the Machiavellian creatures — their motivations, passions, ambitions and hierarchal society.