Review: Missed the Boat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2011
It was okay but I was somewhat disappointed. The sci fi element was not very strong. There was a lot of sex and I'm not against sex scenes in their place but here they overwhelmed the story. I think the author missed the boat on making the hold so dark. It was so stark and bare down there that there wasn't much for our hero and heroine to do so the story lacked any real action plot. I did like the realism of the hero going ahead and "doing" the heroine right off the bat instead of being some noble paladin who protected the heroine but left her "pure."I would have preferred to see much more world building and interaction between the hero and heroine and other characters. Lacking that interaction, maybe the hero shouldn't have been quite so stoic and alone. No witty repartee here.Finally the author made a mistake that points to the author writing erotica set in space rather than writing sci fi romance. When a character states they live on the outer edge of thus and such galaxy and it's not the Milky Way you know they've failed to grasp the vastness of space and are stretching the plausibilities of space travel beyond reason. Sci fi feels more realistic and acceptable if you speak of star systems not galaxies. Otherwise you ought to spend some time showing me how such outrageously far places are reached.