Review: In Discretion
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
I totally got and liked the concept of a Discretionary. A Discretionary is basically a high priced prostitute that can’t spill your secrets. They are members of a highly regulated guild, a guild that specializes in obtaining secrets for the purposes of blackmail. I got a little lost on the fact that Thanson’s latest contract spilled some secrets in front of Thanson. I completely understand that Thanson cannot let the secrets be known. Common sense tells anyone who is enjoying a rent boy (who obtains info for blackmailing) to be careful about what said rent boy sees or hears. That is where this tale took a weird detour for me that it never came back from.Thanson manages to get off the ship he has been traveling on while working. Thanson found out something that is going to get him killed. While trying to send a distress message to the guild that he is employed by he stumbles into his ex. Kazra is the only person on the space station that can help Thanson. As soon as the communication line is open things go from bad to worse as the space station is attacked by something far more dangerous than anyone has ever experienced.As for the romance between Kazra and Thanson… its mostly thoughts from ten years ago with the thoughts of getting to know each other again. There was nothing there that made it obvious why these two men were ever together much less why they were going to give it another shot. The romance is light and seemed to be added in as an afterthought to this sci fi tale.I knew going into In Discretion that it was book three in Reesa Herberth’s Ylendrian Empire series. I also knew from Riptide Publishing’s website that the book should work as a stand-alone. I felt like I was missing something the entire time I was reading this title. By the end of the book I was never able to put my finger on exactly what I was missing though.book provided by the publisher for the purpose of an honest review