Review: Good concept, not so great execution
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
I thought the concept for this story was good. Unfortunately, I was less pleased with the execution. The story tends to focus on sex and skips most of the plot. The entire story of what happened when the team landed on the plant is worked into a paragraph. Worse, at least to me, lead warrior Suzzie loses what credibility she had. After fighting off aliens, being captured, drugged, and waking up; she attempts to escape. Halfway through the escape, she stops and decides to have sex with the stranger who is holding her prisoner (she has known him all of 5 minutes). No logic, or thought, she just stops being intelligent with no explanation. Presumably her loss of consciousness during sex was less about it being great and more about an aneurysm, since she then explains to the aliens all about the women living on the planet, their defenses, how to find and capture them. Suzzie goes from being intelligent, protective, and a leader to being a ditz within a couple of pages. A couple of hours later, she has decided she is in love and that is the end of the book. It stops right in the middle of the plot. If you want to find out if she actually gets off of the ship, you have to buy the next book.