Review: Enjoyable disaster sci-fi romance. 4.5 stars.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
This one brings back warm memories of those days watching disaster sci-fi movies which always feature a het couple, one of them predicting the disaster. Only difference is that this time, it is a MM romance, LOL. I like this writer's style which is easy to immerse in. More so when the premise could easily be classified as a hard sci-fi, which sometimes get bogged down by all those scientific terms. I thought the writer has done a convincing job conveying a terraforming activity gone all wrong. The plot builds up nicely culminating in the all consuming inevitable disaster. That said the devastation, loss of lives could be handled more tragically as this is the climax of the plot. On the other hand, one of the guys' near brush with death have me glued to the pages. The romance angle is sastifactoriy conveyed even if I feel that there is no need to inject complication towards the last 30% of the book. This is foremost a plot driven sci-fi. So the romance complication coming that late in the plot seems forced but it is OK, I guess. Both characters are likable even if Adam is the usual playboy type suddenly hit by love. Zach is a more interesting character as this reluctant hero takes it upon himself to save his "world". 5 stars for well conceived plot and 3.5 stars for romance.