Coyander Kenso at Finifter
In which Tan Sim pen’Akla collects the mail.
The ship on which Tan Sim is serving out his exile has undergone a mysterious transformation. When he told his tale to Jethri in Balance of Trade, the ship was Genchi and its captain was named sea’Kira; now, though it’s clearly the same ship, its name is Coyander Kenso and the captain’s name is dea’Blanco.
We learn in passing that Tan Sim plays a musical instrument, of the keyboard family, though we don’t learn whether he has one available to him in his exile.
It appears Tan Sim is going to be able to persuade the Captain (whatever his name is) that accepting the invitation to the trade fair will be good for the ship as well as for Tan Sim himself. If he keeps this up, by the time Master ven’Deelin and Jethri get their rescue planned out he may not need rescuing.
PA: The ship on which Tan Sim is serving out his exile has undergone a mysterious transformation. It gets weirder when we’re back to Genchi a few chapters later. You’d think, in these days of electronic “manuscripts” that authors and editors would be better able to excise these sorts of inconsistencies.
“The ship on which Tan Sim is serving out his exile has undergone a mysterious transformation. When he told his tale to Jethri in Balance of Trade, the ship was Genchi and its captain was named sea’Kira; now, though it’s clearly the same ship, its name is Coyander Kenso and the captain’s name is dea’Blanco.”
I was sure it sounded quite wrong to my ears, but I was too lazy to go back and check. After all…I’m not the author. It seems an odd mistake. Maybe she checked an earlier draft.
It’s interesting that—at least for this most recent (still awaiting publication) book—Sharon was accepting edits/corrections of errors, i.e., “tyops” [sic], from readers of the eARC. Inconsistency and misspellings of names was one of her specific requests. Considering how many errors we’ve seen in the three books leading up to this one and in this one, I hope that the additional input for Accepting the Lance will yield an improved final product.