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The Clan Corporate
The Clan Corporate: Book Three of The Merchant Princes | Charles Stross
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Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade ) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in The Hidden Family). She fell in love with a distant relative but he's dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders, betrayals. Now, however, in The Clan Corporate, she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is for instance the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they'd never make her do that, would they? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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xicanti
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I‘m back with Daisy-May for a couple days! She was all over me when I first got here, but now she‘s decided I‘m old news.

Dogs, man.

I got Charles Stross‘s first two Merchant Princes books through the Tor.com Ebook Club a looooong time ago, read them a fair bit after that, and only just managed to get #s 3 & 4 in June. I‘m hard into this one so far. It‘s such a cool take on portal fantasies, with lots of meaty economics worked in.

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majkia

With this book the series gets more interesting, as our Earth has discovered there are people walking through universes. Miriam finds herself being used by multiple sides and needs to figure out who to trust and what she can manage to actually do.

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Creme_de_la_them
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Mehso-so

To be fair, this is the 3rd book in the series and I haven‘t read the first 2 (I picked this one up in a box of free books) so that‘s probably influencing my opinion. The first 2/3s of the book was slow and seemed to be familiarizing the reader with an overview of the first two books. Helpful for someone like me, but slow. The last 1/3 picked up and was engaging enough to make me want to read the next book in the series.