Review: I had some issues...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
2 stars for the readability of the book and the fact that I read it straight through. I'm a huge fan of alien/human romances and I really did enjoy the backstory of the Hunters. But I had some issues...In fact several of my notes just say "WTF?"It is clear the story takes place in Canada, but honestly I didn't get a real big "Canadian" feel to the story. It felt almost all the unique aspects of that country had been scrubbed from the book and made more generic.A giant alien spacecraft crashes. They have special magic fire stuff that eliminates all the bodies and ALL of the remaining ship. When the investigators come, they are all la-di-dah, can't find any evidence of aliens except WHAT ABOUT THE GIANT SCORCHED AREA OF EARTH THAT IT MUST HAVE CAUSED!!! No mention of that, nope, investigators can't find any evidence of a crash despite the fact that they arrived in a helicopter and had been surveying the area.Wish there had been more made of the "alien-ness" of the Hunters. What? No double peen? Just kidding.The heroine is in hiding from an abuser and then comes this explanation:"With sudden insight, Ardal understood. She was like a wounded animal seeking shelter. A man had done this to her so only a man could fix it."I think I popped a blood vessel when I read that.The idea that the heroine is so amazingly beautiful that men immediately approach her and make rude comments. Even for a "motorcycle gang" it seemed a bit much.Speaking of the "gang", wait till you get to the scene where the Hunters kill 30 of them and then the old trucker from the truck stop come across the scene of this mass murder and is all casual about the killings, warns them to flee, and to make sure they take of the young lady. *sigh*Her sister! Wait, first why does the heroine get an unusual name like "Fiona" and her sister is named "Karen"? I won't even get into all the shit she spouts about how her sister's abuser couldn't be one because he was so nice and a DOCTOR TOO!"Look, if you didn't like the man that's fine by me, but don't go off about abuse.""Fiona" never showed her family her injuries? The police completely ignored her because the guy had "alibis"? I just felt very uncomfortable with how the whole abuse situation was handled.I won't even tell you how far into the book you have to go before you get to a sex scene. Let's just say, there ain't a whole lotta nookie happening and I almost thought the book would end with a fade to black scene.Ends at 99% on my Kindle.Part of a series but stands alone.