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Book Review of Stardoc (Stardoc, Bk 1)

Stardoc (Stardoc, Bk 1)
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This is a rather hard to describe science fiction book. Some parts are lighthearted. Others are rather grim (plague with threat of planetary extinction, for example).

Cherijo is an experienced surgeon from Earth who goes to another planet to practice medicine on non-Humans in an attempt to escape from her controlling father. She falls in love with an alien at first sight, performs surgery on species of which she has no knowledge, is emotionally very immature (result of controlling father?), and has little impulse control. Meanwhile, her father is willing to start an interplanetary war to get her to come home again.