Only the adolescents have clear unmarked skin, until that is the Terrans turn up. As V’Dan progress into adulthood, they acquire coloured spots and stripes on their skin. Relations between the Terrans and the V’Dan are a little strained due to one significant racial difference. Some of the other races in the Alliance have trouble comprehending this and see the Terrans and V’Dan as one race with the Terrans being a long, lost cousin. The Terrans and the V’Dan might be thought of as a single species, human, but they do have two very different civilisations. This is an important point as the world created by Johnson is complex. To make things a little more complicated, the V’Dan are actually a 10,000 year-old off-shoot of the Terrans. This includes the V’Dan but not the Terrans, who have only just begun the process of joining. They have launched an all-out war against a collection of intelligent races known as the Alliance. The Salik are a vicious race of intelligent beings like frogs in their physical build but, of course, much, much larger. I’m also new to the author not having read any of her previous work.įirstly, a brief synopsis. I’ve not read the first two books so it will be a good test to see if this works as a standalone novel. The other books in the series are ‘The Terrans’ and ‘The V’Dan’.
‘The Blockade’ is the third and final book in the ‘First Salik War’ series by author Jean Johnson.
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