Review: Good sci-fi, but don't consider it SFR
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
Earth has all but the lost the battle to the Calithians, the alien invaders. The only hope for survival and freedom is Captain Michael Drake and his lone damaged starship. But he knows he can’t win against the entire empire, so he retreats from battle to re-strategize. He ends up on an abandoned penal colony where the prisoners have taken control. Drake and his crew are captured by the prisoners, who are led by a woman named Queenie. He recognizes her leadership ability and tries to convince her to help him fight the Calithians and save Earth.Silly me. I don’t know what made me think this was going to be a sci-fi romance. It’s not. It’s an action adventure sci-fi novel with just a hint of romance. The focus of the story is not on the relationship between Drake and Queenie, but on gearing up to battle the Calithians. It is filled with fighting, malfunctioning spaceships, and explosions. Queenie defines the term kick-ass heroine, and I liked that she was Hispanic. I think the author tried to create two dominant main characters, but Queenie struck me as the more dominant one.If you want an explosion filled sci-fi novel, this is good pick. I personally would have preferred more romance, but I am not sure that that was the author’s intention in this story.