One informant reports we're getting sandbagging reviews on amazon.de -- but how would I know? Anyone here speak German?
I do. Although I sometimes read German texts that make me wonder...
The thing is that the English editions - which Amazon.de also sells, at least some of them - get four and five star reviews throughout.
'Eine Frage der Ehre' had five reviews, three 5*, 1x2*, 2x1*.
It seems as if the readers are dissatisfied with the space-romance aspect of it - the characters aren't complex enough; the SFna; element too weak, ('there are spaceships but it might as well be set on a pirate ship 400 years ago.'
I'd be happy to read a German translation for you to tell you how bad it is; but it's pretty telling that the only bad reviews you get are for the German translation. Translating into German is awkward and I woulnd't want to do it; sentences that sound rich and enticing in English end up feeling overwrought and trite when you translate them, so you're only going to get a little bit of that, but still.
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I do. Although I sometimes read German texts that make me wonder...
The thing is that the English editions - which Amazon.de also sells, at least some of them - get four and five star reviews throughout.
'Eine Frage der Ehre' had five reviews, three 5*, 1x2*, 2x1*.
It seems as if the readers are dissatisfied with the space-romance aspect of it - the characters aren't complex enough; the SFna; element too weak, ('there are spaceships but it might as well be set on a pirate ship 400 years ago.'
I'd be happy to read a German translation for you to tell you how bad it is; but it's pretty telling that the only bad reviews you get are for the German translation. Translating into German is awkward and I woulnd't want to do it; sentences that sound rich and enticing in English end up feeling overwrought and trite when you translate them, so you're only going to get a little bit of that, but still.