Review: So Hot it Burned Out
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
I really liked Nina Pierce's Healer's Garden and decided to give this book a try. Unfortunately, it didn't have the depth of character, plot, emotion or tension so abundant in Healer's Garden. And maybe that is a little unfair of a comparison because this book is 100 pages shorter. But Pierce still brings plenty of imagination. This book reminded me a little of Star Wars, with the tavern filled with aliens and the roguishness of Dallas as a great stand-in for Han Solo. And sidekick Thaegan is a heck of a lot more appealing than a Wookie.The description says there is a "whole lot of passionate sex" and that is right. The sex scenes really overwhelmed the plot to the point that I felt cheated on what was set up to be a great story. The beginning of the book was very good, but the ending was rushed.Lilly, Dallas and Thaegan are likeable, but the angst of Lilly and Dallas and their situations seemed forced. I just couldn't get vested in their emotions. Maybe because the sex was so incendiary that the emotion just got burned out.