Review: Cool dystopian thrill ride with two sexy, touchingly in love men.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
Liam and Daniel are reunited lovers out to take down an evil corporation in a dystopian future where the wealthy live in skyscrapers that reach into the sky, funneling their pollutants down to be breathed in by the less fortunate who live below in the dangerous `gutter' area of factories and poverty. Both men are the sons of prominent `Sky' families and Daniel is the son of the man at the top of Cybernetix--the corporation they are determined to see fall.It is a cool world, but wait, when it comes to the characters, there are more twists here than you can count. I won't spoil them all for you, but I can say I was surprised by a few and I can give away the one that opens the book... Liam comes from a prominent Vampire family. These aren't your `cursed by god' vamps--they're entire race was created by a genetic modification. We meet Liam at a point when he has been long cast out by his family and has done terrible things to survive. Most recently, he was hired to kill Daniel by Daniel's father. That apparently, didn't go down as planned.Liam and Daniel are great together and the scenes of the two of them getting reacquainted and learning who they each have become are touching and sweetly sexy. I loved watching them re-learn to rely on each other as they face one harrowing situation after another and charge their way forward, men on a mission that seems determined to land them in prison or dead.My one disappointment was that their moment of re-connection came in an earlier story that I hadn't read.A Chip in His Shoulder (Falling Sky)The author did a good job of giving enough detail from the earlier story that I was never lost or confused, just wishing I'd read that story first.