Review: Wonderful premise, weak execution (also it's a novella, not a novel)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2011
I'm tempted to give this two stars (especially after seeing it was put out by a publisher and isn't an indie book), but I'm not that familiar with erotica, so maybe this is par for the course.I got suckered in because I enjoy steampunk, and the sample pages made this sound right up my alley. Smart mechanically inclined heroine in cool Steampunk/Wild West world off on an adventure to save her mentor.I expected a lot of action and adventure. Instead I got a lot of characters sitting around talking and/or lusting after each other with scads and scads of background information dumped on the page. I love a good romance along with my action (huge Linnea Sinclair fan), but this wasn't it. The world isn't fleshed out, and there's very little conflict, or anything interesting happening, and I found myself skimming almost as soon as the characters rode out of town.Again, maybe for erotica this is kind of the expected thing, so please take my review with a grain of salt. I was just disappointed because the premise sounded very cool and the story didn't live up to expectations.Also the publisher might want to put the word count in the description. I don't know how long this is, but I'm sure it's not novel length, and that may affect some people's decision to purchase at this price.