Review: Life Happens to Star Pilots Too
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2013
Reckless Rescue (a barren planet romance) by Rinelle GreyWhat a delightful story!Tyris had everything he wanted.  He lived on Urslat in relative luxury.  He had married the General's daughter, Milandra, the girl of his dreams.  As a starship pilot, his job gave him both challenge and pleasure.  What could be better?He and Milandra had talked about having a child, but she wasn't ready.  In reality, neither was he.  It was not a subject they discussed often.  But that changed when he received a notice that he was to report to his doctor for a contraceptive chip, a device that was ordered for criminals.Tyris wasn't exactly a criminal, but he had taken part in a protest when he was in college.  He thought Milandra would understand.  She hadn't really wanted children anyway...Milandra exploded.  What would people think?  What would her father say?  How was she ever to hold her head up in public again?  She left him.Later, moping around his brother Kerit, he voiced his fears.  Milandra was never coming back.But, Kerit countered, he could have her back, and the chip removed, if he found a new source of anysogen, the gas that made star travel possible.  With the gas in diminishing supply, he would be a hero.  They'd give him anything he wanted.So began Tyris' search for another source of anysogen.  Perhaps the hidden planet, Semala, the one removed from the starcharts, would be a likely place to start.But from the beginning of his entry into the Semala system, everything went wrong, and Tyris crashed onto an adjacent planet, not Semala which he had found utterly destroyed by an asteroid.On this planet he found the survivors, the few who had been able to leave Semala before it was destroyed, in a dying community slowly being made infertile by anysogen gas.  Anysogen gas!  But with no way to tell anyone back on Urslat of his find.Tyris, however, found something else that he was not looking for--Marlee.From the beginning, author Rinelle Grey draws the reader in.  You want Tyris to succeed.  But you also want Marlee to succeed, and for a time their purposes might be counter to each other.Ms. Grey does an excellent work in rounding out her characters, not through description, but through dialogue and actions.  She builds the drama as events progress, even conspire, in keeping Tyris trapped on this dying planet.It is definitely a five-star book.