Review: Anti Muslim stance is offencive to me... 2.7 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
This review by Scott Sammons (Christina's husband) using her account.In book two the sex hinted at in book three is brought to full bloom and while tastefully written and in no way prurient in nature (sorry Fifty Shades fans) is a factor of romance novel format that should be acknowledged.  Like the first book this needs a better editor with the power to send back for re-write prior to publication.  These stories are raw and need polishing to tighten them up into well crafted works.The use of Arabic and Muslim gestures and religious practices to designate the "Satanic" influences is sufficiently offensive to prevent me from reading further works in this series.  The characters are very believable and well crafted (Vulcan angelics aside), the dialogue is mostly very good, the imagined universe is creative and enduring, overall I enjoyed the book very much, the anti Muslim stance felt like such a cheap shot that it jarred my enjoyment through the first half of the book.It is with regret that I turn away from this author.  Those with fewer social quibbles or who have a similar prejudice and distain as the author may well enjoy the books even more than I did.Note to author a little more research in the means of silent killing with a knife to the throat would have helped an old farm boy who has bled out many an animal in the butchering process continue to suspend dis-belief (you never want to sever the trachea is you want to keep things quiet just plunge the knife in at the juggler / carotid and go behind the trachea other wise the bubbling froth is quite loud.  Romans chose to go for the subclavian artery for this reason to make executions quiet.  Thank you for your hard work I thoroughly enjoyed reading your books except for those times that I was deeply offended.  I consider it a cultural bias that may well be a factor of me being more sensitive that average (I turned away from a white supremacist culture and do not wish to return to its embrace)  In making White superior and non-white of questionable sentience, you have made the entire work tainted for me.