Review: Author unwittingly assassinates characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
I finished this story in an hour; it's very short. It starts out with an interesting premise: two solo employees (a woman and a man) from rival companies work alone on separate space stations orbiting the same planet. Lonely, they meet online for chat sex. The writing is clean, the pacing somewhat slow. There is an interesting challenge that comes up (don't want to spoil it). But when they've just barely addressed it, the story ends. No conclusion. Even worse, just before the cliff hanger, the author commits a major faux pas.Romance novels are based on the evolving relationship between the hero and heroine, two characters the reader likes and roots for. In Collaterol Damage, it's suddenly revealed that the leads aren't what they were presented to be. They're untrustworthy. This caused me, as a reader, to feel mislead. Character development was already limited and focused mostly on their mutual sexual attraction.