Review: Bodice Ripper Fantasy, not much here
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2012
You probably should take this review with a grain of salt since I do not often read this genre.  Mostly I read Sci-Fi and fantasy as well as "better" fiction.  This was billed as a Sci-Fi romance and I have enjoyed the work of Lee & Miller very much so after reading the "free" sample I decided to give it a try. That was a mistake on my part.  The genre for this is the well known "Bodice Ripper" romance where the handsomest man that ever lived eventually winds up loving the most beautiful woman in the universe after various trials and tribulations.  The sub genre is "Fantasy Porn".  There is no world building here, no Science Fiction and precious little character development.  He is a powerful Emp, (but a native peasant) which means he can sense and fix emotional damage by opening up her "ramas" and she has damaged emotions from growing up with an evil father (she is the Imperial princess and next in line to the throne) and from being kidnapped by rebels and held prisoner and repeatedly raped for SIX YEARS!.  Because of this experience she cannot relate to other people and fears all men.  Of course he fixes her up and then she melts and moans in all the right places and he is the best lover ever especially since they have been soul mates for thousands of lifetimes.  She is mostly a self centered brat and he is mostly a very sensitive emotional wimp (despite being 6 foot six of amazing hunk of man!) At the end she hasn't changed much as she blows off the one member of her guard who actually seemed to care about her.  While the hunky Emp couldn't care less about the emotional problems her guard must have faced and leaves them in shackles for his convenience. No one other than the main two characters is worth any character development at all, completely cardboard cutouts. If his thousand lifetimes soulmate had been one of the guards it would have made a better story.  To summarize, the plot is thin but might have had the makings of a good story, the porn is pretty standard stuff for the genre, the writing is OK and the editing is passable with only a few annoying mistakes.  If I had paid under $3 for it I probably wouldn't have bothered to write this review but it was billed as Sci-Fi so I think its fair to warn people before shelling out the asking price.