Review: It passed the time, but was sort of meh for me overall
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2013
I love futuristic romance, I love arranged or contract marriage, and I love a woman on the run or in hiding. Love all that and was really hoping to score a kickazz read here. It's not a bad read, but I wasn't quite feeling this story, the characters, or the woman-on-the-run element. I felt some needed details were missing. I would have liked more about the colony, maybe more about the background and setting. I would have liked more about the heroine's previous life and danger, more of Louise's feelings, and more about Adam and his life and background, too. For whatever reason, I definitely feel I didn't get to know either main character that well. Also, Adam starts off really wounded, emotionally and physically scarred, and he's all rough at first, but he turned sweet and soft, and maybe that happened too quickly for me. The romance felt almost there but not quite all the way for me. Not a lot happened in this story. I got to about 80% and thought, what the heck? when is something going to happen?, and that's when it picked up. The ending, with the baddie, just felt a little easy and too rushed at that point. So I was not feeling the suspense or the danger all that much. I'm just kind of stuck here in the middle: I don't hate/dislike the book but neither can I say I particularly liked it or loved it.This book was 113 pages on my kindle.