Review: A interesting premise but too short to deliver on the poignant potential
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2012
The idea that the hero needed to get home to his world in order to bring justice to his sister's killer, but would forget more and more of his life there and his purpose the longer he remained on Earth was an interesting premise but the execution...I really like Butcher's Sentinel War series, but this standalone alien romance just didn't click with me for some reason -  I guess I just never fell for the leading man. I think that if there had been a better reason for the hero to make it home before his powers and his memory faded - one with more pathos - I might have liked it better. As it was, the hero just wasn't conflicted enough between his responsibility and his sudden feelings for the heroine to win me over. The heroine on the other hand does manage to stir some sympathy, she's loved and lost and is destined to loose again and I respected her willingness to accept that loss to do the right thing.When all is said and done though, it is likely the real problem was the length of the story, this was fairly short and in order to fit a fair bit of steamy stuff in - and with short span of time that the pair were together - there just wasn't time to develop the emotional part of the connection between them.