Review: Extremely disappointing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2012
This is one of the first books I got when I bought my Kindle. When I was looking at the list of free books, I was overwhelmed with the list of trashy romance novels that showed up on there. I was excited to see a science fiction story that looked like was going to be interesting. Cyborgs, future dystopian society, aliens, made me think I might be in for a good ride. This one started out with some promise, giving an overview of the caste society that had developed in this future timeline. The science part of if was a little weak - problems were resolved without any clear explanation of what was going on, but I'm ok with a little flexibility in the science so I was willing to give it a chance.Then it introduced the naked "heroine" and it rapidly went downhill. It went from a potentially interesting sci-fi story into a lame trashy romance. And it wasn't just that romance got added to the plot - that might have been ok, but the romance that was added was of the trashy sort - did you know that in this future society, they produced robot soldiers who like to have orgies and have the ability to expand the size of their members as desired? Almost every other organic part of their body is replaced, but they keep their genitals? What possible reason would a cyborg soldier have for this?The plot holes get worse from there - the magical solutions to problems get more and more ridiculous, and the random bad guy who comes from nowhere just unravels things even further. In the end I spent more time trying to figure out what the heck was going on and why the author thought her plot made sense. And while I'm willing to accept some flexibility in the science but by the end it had gone so far beyond plausibility that I just couldn't believe it.*Spoiler alert*For some reason the unseen advanced race of aliens was not able to produce any way to resist a plague, so they have to alter humans to magically produce a new race of aliens...so they can genetically alter humans to allow them to mate and produce aliens, but they can't just alter themselves? Or produce a treatment to the plague? If humans can produce antibodies to the plague, then why didn't they just get them from human blood?  We can do that now, so I don't see how advanced aliens would not be able to copy what we do...There was definite potential for this story and I wanted to like it. I was happy that the grammar and spelling weren't bad, but the gaping plot holes and ridiculous "romance" put this one down at the one star level. I know there is a sequel, which might clean up some of the plot holes but frankly, I can't even bring myself to consider reading that one. If you're looking for a crummy romance novel that happens to take place in space, I suppose this might work, but if you want the scifi adventure promised in the title, then I'd recommend you look elsewhere.