Review: Wow - really, really good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2013
This is the 3rd sci-fi romance book I've read by Lolita Lopez and man is it a great read!  The hero and heroine are people who are smart, sensitive yet tough, AND do not have TSTL moments.  The heroine, Naya is this wonderful combination of street smarts, honor, and vulnerability.  Menace, her husband, is this big lug of a man who always puts her first and slowly tries to indoctrinate her to the Harcos way of life (as opposed to other alpha like romances where the "hero" seems to always be a bonehead and disastrously force the mate to his way of doing things).  When you have two great characters like this, you read a beautiful romance slowly unfold.There is the inevitable conflict in the book which totally had me on the edge of the seat and feeling emotional for the leads.  Usually I find the "big moment of separation" a colossal TSTL moment or forced with 2 dimensional villains and thus I quickly skim it, BUT Lopez avoids this with "Menace" and does a wonderful job in writing it-even the guy who caused the separation, you hate him, but you see how he got there.Ms. Lopez really has a talent for writing sci-fi romances.  I wasn't sure about her writing when I had read her werewolf menage, but "Menace", "Vicious", and "Skyport" are huge reading winners for me.  I anxiously await her next sci-fi romance!