Review: Not for me
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2011
Hold is a Science Fiction Romance by author Zannie Adams and tells the story of Riana who has been convicted of a minor crime and is sentenced to life imprisonment on the prison plant Genus 6.  The Hold as it is known is a prison located under the poisonous sea of Genus 6 where no one escapes from.  The Hold is a mixed gender open prison with very few lockable cells.  The prisoners are thrown together and fight amongst themselves for food.  The guards to nothing to help the prisoners it is a free for all where fighting, rape and stealing are a daily occurance.  Upon entering the prison Riana is advised by one of the guards to find the strongest man there and give herself to him as payment for his protection.So from the description of the book I was very keen and excited to read this.  It looked like an interesting plot, a women trying to survive in a dangerous futuristic prison and obviously there was going to be a guy and some romance going on, I thought it was going to be a good book from other reviews that I had read.  I couldn't have been more wrong.  The start was good and the story was very bleak and dark, just my kind of thing, then Riana meets Cain the imprisoned guy she gives herself to for protection and the story turns into some kind or porn with the plot as a side story.  I was fed up reading about all the times they had sex and in what position and who was watching.  I was looking forward to one or two hot sex scenes after being teased into a frenzy by the author but this just wasn't the case.  I also didn't like the language Ms Adams used.  Don't get me wrong I am not against swearing in fact I have a bad potty mouth myself but I felt it was inappropriate.  I also didn't think this language fitted with the type of character that Riana was being portrayed as.  I so wanted Ms Adams to concentrate on the promising plot rather than how good Cain was at thrusting.  There was very little Sci-Fi in this book and I nearly gave up on it a couple of times.  I really don't like giving a negative review for a book, and please note that this is my honest opinion, as I mentioned earlier I have seen a lot of reviews for this book where people really liked it, however it just wasn't for me. I am going to give this book 1 star out of 5.