Review: almost but not quite
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2011
This story had promise but fell short.  I think the problem was that the story did not quite decide which genre it wanted to be and had a bit of each and succeeded in none.  As a sort of dystopia fantasy, it needed more world building and veered unevenly between people using offworld technology of security cameras and those clinging to the old ways by riding horses and fighting with swords.  As a traditional romance, it was a little too erotic/gritty/realistic about the kind of deviant behavior desperate people would get into and had to be endured by the hero/heroine.  Probably succeeded most as an erotic story, but, strictly speaking, other than the interaction between the hero/heroine, everything else was glossed over and probably not descriptive enough for that genre.