Linda Mooney
Autor/a de The Battle Lord's Lady (Battle Lord Saga, #1)
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Obres de Linda Mooney
Neverwylde (The Rim of the World, #2) 4 exemplars
Neverwylde (The Rim of the World, #3) 4 exemplars
Cavender (Tales from Alta Novis Book 2) 1 exemplars
Berta (Tales from Alta Novis Book 1) 1 exemplars
A Faerie's Tale 1 exemplars
Runner's Moon Trilogy Megabook 1 exemplars
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- Obres
- 59
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- 214
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- 3.7
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- 13
- ISBN
- 93
There was a decent attempt at world building. It suffered a bit from "space sprawl." Many new or casual sci fi authors tend to make their civilizations too big. Instead of a rational number of star systems, there were references to galaxies which would just be too unwieldy for any empire to rule or govern or police. But the actual planets and destinations within those planets were fairly vivid with some drawn more clearly than others. Space ship tech was largely ignored. No effort made to convince me any thought had been put into how ships would move through space with or without FTL.
The cultures of the hero and heroine are basically not explored at all which was a bit of a disappointment, as it made it difficult to understand the characters as well as I could have.
Captured for forced alien sex is a fairly typical set up and I can usually be tempted into giving it a read. This one held up better than some motivation wise. It was basically for revenge and greed. Sex scenes were fairly explicit and hot.
Our two protagonists were both police officers of a sort. The forced sex caused them to break the intergalactic law against interspecies sex. I liked how the author chose to include that and her rationale for making the law. If she chooses to revisit this universe with other characters that set up could be a background for many more relationship stories.
The relationship was nice but could have been much richer. The two of them decided to make the best of the forced sex thing and during the 2 down times developed a certain sort of caring for each other. My belief in that relationship would have been greater if more time had been spent on this portion. If they had had more than 2 or 3 days to fall for each other before they escaped. It would have made their trying to get back together more believable also. I
I was actually looking forward to their learning to live together and finding a spot for themselves in a universe where their love was forbidden but the story didn't go that way even though it seemed like it was heading there. The whole idea of no cross species sex was just dropped even though the reason for the ban was not solved in any manner. These two ended up together and that seemed hunky dory after all the hoopla about no interspecies sex so that crossbred horrors would not result. That was one of the biggest oversights of the book.
The biggest problem I had with the book was that the heroine was just too powerful. She was a bit of deus ex machina all on her own. She was a psion. So basically she could shut down whole space and/or energy fields, stop bullets, put people to sleep and spy on the minds of a whole planet looking for someone who'd seen the bad guy. Come on, put some limits on your power and show me your writing chops by having your characters work with what they have. They ought to have to sweat a bit. Give her one power not 10, not whatever power she needs just at that moment.
The hero was a bit under developed. There was no POV from him. He showed signs that maybe he thought he was dominate but the author didn't do him justice. I liked him but I would have liked him to be more fully realized.
So on the whole it was an entertaining read and I felt like it was a solid SFR effort. I'm thinking this author can only get better.
I received this from netGalley for free to review.… (més)