Review: Just One More Thing...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Well...While I agree with 95% of these reviews, I have a little different observation about this story.And it could be that I am just being the “Devils’ Advocate” here, but...There was an underlying facet to this story’s multidimensional plot that I found almost traumatizing.And that is the subject of addiction.It just boggles my mind when I think about all the different ways that subject was touched in this story.First off, Lefi’s body makes a chemical that he has to be wary of when he gets romantic with Afton because no one knows if Afton can become physically addicted to that chemical.There is also the whole problem of Afton’s entire race being extremely vulnerable to drug addiction of any type.Then there is the problem of the drug trade being "in bed" with the slave/prostitute trade. (Pun intended)And the prostitute trade uses drug addiction to control it's prostitutes...The author then goes into the different species that have been trapped as prostitutes and how they are affected by the drugs.The reader also gets explicit details about a close acquaintance, which is the same species as Afton, and how he is being killed by drugs and prostitution!  That poooooooor guy/alien.I haven’t even mentioned the whole topic of scientists trying to come up with a chemical breakdown of that drug to use for medicinal purposes to treat addiction to said drug; or the whole topic of treating one drug addiction with another potentially addicting drug…Do you see where I’m going with this???And then…THEN!!!  *******SPOILER***********As if that isn’t disturbing enough…AFTON GETS KIDNAPPED!!!AAAAAARRRRGGGHH!!It broke my heart what those drugs did to respectable…honorable…beautiful… Afton.To be honest, I was never as happy as when I found out that I wouldn’t have to wait too long in my reading for his rescue.I was soooo afraid it was going to be like "The Island" , a book I still haven’t been able to finish. That poor guy they kidnapped…Anyway, I guess what I’m trying to say, after all that…Is that, after reading all three books in the series, this last book was by far the most profound for me..And maybe…just maybe…Drug addiction may need to be included as a warning to readers under the Amazon “Publisher’s Note.”