Review: Disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Normally I am a fan of S.E.Smith but this book just didn't work for me . At all. Torak was gross, he was just a perv and had no real personality to make up for it. Usually I can connect to at least one character in Smith's books but everyone in this book annoyed me, There was nothing to any of them and the blatant disrespect shown to women in Kassian society wasn't cute, wasn't sexy, wasn't anything but obnoxious and a huge turn off. I am not averse to sex scenes, but these just went on and on and on and weren't particularly well written. Unlike some of S.E. Smith's other series, where I was eager to find out what happened to the other characters, I have no need to read any more about anyone in this universe. And why do the girls all have to be virginal, wide eyed innocent sword swallowers? Are these adult romance stories or a thinly veiled glorificiation of pedophilia? I gave it two stars instead of one because the story started out promising but once they got off the Tearnat warship, it went downhill fast.