Review: Review: Fragile Bond by Rhi Etzweiler
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
Title: Fragile BondAuthor: Rhi EtzweilerCover Artist: Petite-Madame VonApplePublisher: Riptide PublishingReviewer: SeanGenre: Sci-FiType: RomancePairing: GayLength: NovelHeat Rating: ♨♨♨Rating: ★★Blurb:Sniper Sergeant Marc Staille and his trusty rifle, Mat, are on bodyguard duty at a mining operation on a backwater planet. The resource-rich valley is crawling with tawnies, the native dirt-colored predators. Huge things that hunt in packs and kill as well with tooth and claw as Marc ever has with Mat.The rules change when a tawny uses an unexpected weapon: pheromones.Commander Hamm Orsonna, leader of the fefa clan, is determined to chase off the invading aliens. The one he sets out to capture for intel is scrawny and hairless, not very intimidating--until it takes out his entire squad. Seasoned warriors, felled from halfway down the valley by its metal death stick.Their sacrifice may be worth it, though. The alien male smells like he's interested in making things right. He smells of other things too, but nobody else seems to notice. Before long, Hamm finds himself fighting off his own kind to defend the alien, who might be his people's only hope for peace, and Hamm's only chance for happiness.Review:Before I started the review, I loved the cover and the blurb. It was the main reason why I chose to request a review copy from the publisher. I loved sci-fi and always will. When I noticed it'd be the aliens relationship I knew I had to pick it up and check it out. Unfortunately, this book left me disappointed. There weren't any excitement coming out of this book as I'd expected since it was tagged a military story, which I was hoping for some taste of the actions but I didn't get any.I struggled to finish the book, actually. It was really boring read for me. I knew this story was liked by a lot of my friends and sadly, I was one of the smaller crowd that didn't enjoy the book. I wanted to so badly. The descriptive of the world building and characters' appearance were amazing. I just wished that would also apply to the action part of the story. There weren't any romance in my opinion. Except toward the ending, which was very vaguely.I thought the story was too dull because it was pretty much all about what the main characters thought and felt throughout the story. I needed more out of it. Sure, there was some small scene where there were actually actions going on. It wasn't enough for me, though. I would give the author another chance for the author's other works. Hopefully, I'd liked it better than Fragile Bond. It wasn't the best sci-fi I have read so far. I hated to be disappointed, but I still think you should check it out anyway. Most readers liked it, so you'll probably be like the larger crowd that enjoyed the book.