Review: Hard-Hitting and Sexy Romp
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
Rogue Hunter: Life Force by Kevis Hendrickson is a speculative fiction novel about a young bounty hunter named Zyra Zanr who seeks the help of handsome Doctor Ryan Grant during a danger-filled stopover to repair her spaceship.Zyra, still recovering from a harrowing trip that nearly took her life, wants nothing more than to lay low at Space Station Phoenix. But a sweet one-night stand with a lonely woman, then getting involved with sexy Ryan, plunges her into passionate tte-à-ttes. Even worse, someone wants her dead. Zyra battles hardened thugs who will stop at nothing to humiliate and kill her.Rogue Hunter: Life Force is a whirlpool of bedroom romps and desperate mlées. Puzzling out Zyra’s illness, plus the unexpected development of Ryan’s research project, kept this reader holding on to the very end. The story concluded with some delicious revenge for the bad guys, and bittersweet developments for our heroine. Zyra is a kick-booty gal in a fight, but the story also showed her emotional vulnerability with lover Ryan.Adjusting or removing some phrases could make this hard-hitting and sexy romp even better. For example, the story’s verisimilitude suffered with using current day idioms like “good Samaritans” and “hell in a hand basket.” Zyra’s futuristic world had no context for these biblical references, and they pulled me out of the tale.Hendrickson’s story delivers gritty blows and is not for the fainthearted. Fans of explicit romantic scenes and carnage-filled brawls would enjoy the adventures in Rogue Hunter: Life Force.