Review: Mixed Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2012
First I really enjoyed reading the story for the interpersonal/relationship/character development. The author handled that well. I also enjoyed the plot line. Nothing spectacular but a good solid story. I noticed very few if any editing issues in the grammar or tenses. I am not someone that notices that stuff a lot as I focus more on the story than the grammar when reading but nothing hit me over the head or broke the flow of reading because of grammar. based on my very limited medical knowledge the author is fairly knowledgeable about medical practice and procedures used in hospitals and doctors offices. I will be willing to read the next book if it comes out and is .99 or less based on this story. This is solely based on how I grew to like the people and people story in the book.Now the critical and I mean this to help the author. I get the sense that the author wanted to write a romance set in a science fiction setting but that they lack even a mild knowledge of the physics of space. Interstellar distances, population densities or the geography of our solar system or of the galaxy.Just a few of the major inconsistencies that I noticed.1. the station that the main character immigrated to is supposed to be between the orbits of mars and earth. yet it took them 17 hours or so at light speed to get there. The amount of time it takes light to get from the sun to the earth is only 8 minutes. Here is a rough guide, it takes from about 3 minutes for Mercury, to about 5.3 hours for Pluto for light to reach them from the sun. Mars is roughly 12 light minutes from the sun. Depending on where it is in relation to the earth in its orbit it could be as close as 4 light minutes away from earth to as far as 20 light minutes away. So this station is supposed to be halfway between earth and mars so it would be anywhere from 2 light minutes to 14 light minutes away depending on where in its orbit it is around the sun. If they traveled from earth at light speed for 17 hours they would be more than 3 times as far away from the sun than Pluto is. This is out in or past the Oort cloud and maybe even all the way into interstellar space outside the solar system past the Oort cloud. For most people Pluto would be the edge of the solar system.  here are a few books you might check out to learn about the solar system. They are very basic but seem to be sound in what they tell you about the solar system and astronomy.http://www.amazon.com/The-Planets-Journey-Through-System/dp/1905204264/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1335404101&sr;=1-19http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-About-Solar-System/dp/0064462307/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1335404101&sr;=1-172. Next in the first space battle the main character heard ships firing on their ship in space. Not being hit but just firing. Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum which is mostly what space is.some research in space physics would help. Here is one book. http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Space-Physics-Margaret-Kivelson/dp/0521457149/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1335404462&sr;=1-43. There is mention of fires burning out of holes in the side of a space station that is self destructing. There is no explanation how they are burning in a vacuum. For the majority of fires you have to have oxygen. If you have a breach by explosion in a space station you might have a fire for a few seconds but as soon as it is exposed to the vacuum of space it will go out as the oxygen is vacated from that area. This would happen extremely fast unless it was a very small hole.4. The space station the main character immigrated to ... why was it half way between the orbits of mars and earth. It makes no sense at all. there are no resources you could use to build a station there or for commerce after it was built. It's like building your new colony in the middle of the Sahara desert. Move it out past mars into the asteroid belt where you have access to water and minerals to mine etc..5. The population density and distribution of people and stations make no sense at all compared to volume of implied or stated traffic as well as the confusion in where these stations are. just in our solar system or other places in the galaxy. For the number and frequency of ships coming and going you would need a very well developed civilization in space. It would need to be much larger than 5 space stations.  Especially given how the author has indicated each space station is fairly specialized in its industry or area's of expertise.6 If we have ships that go the speed of light they would take 4 years to get to the nearest star to us. We do have something called absolute speed that is supposed to be faster than light speed but its just a kinda arbitrary speed with not explanation about how fast it is or why its different from light speed.7. There is pretty much no development of the civilization, solar or galactic geography, technology, etc.Right now this should not be listed under science fiction but under maybe paranormal romance or something like that where your market is just women that want a romance. Anyone that reads science fiction is going to trash it because of the technology/physics/solar geography issues.Now that I have nitpicked the story to death I want to encourage the author to continue writing. I liked the story. You handle the people and relationships and character development very well. If you developed the technology, solar geography and civilization as much as the people it would be a great book. Even if all you did was just get rid of the physical inconsistencies in speed and distance and what can and can't happen in a vacuum it would make it a very good book.here are a couple books that help science fiction authors build believable worlds.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158297134X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag;=httpwwwsco093-20&linkCode;=as2&camp;=1789&creative;=390957&creativeASIN;=158297134Xhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1896944396/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag;=httpwwwsco093-20&linkCode;=as2&camp;=1789&creative;=390957&creativeASIN;=1896944396http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158297103X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag;=httpwwwsco093-20&linkCode;=as2&camp;=1789&creative;=390957&creativeASIN;=158297103Xhttp://www.amazon.com/review/0595225535/?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints;=1&tag;=httpwwwsco093-20&linkCode;=ur2&camp;=1789&creative;=390957http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898795362/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag;=httpwwwsco093-20&linkCode;=as2&camp;=1789&creative;=390957&creativeASIN;=0898795362