Review: Heart Pounding MM Sci-Fi with a Heart of Romance!!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
~ ~ ~Banter - check!Incremental Tension - check!Believable Characters - check!Really Great Writing - check check check!"They couldn't borrow enough time to fix the past now."I'm probably supposed to tell you about the suspense, tension, pending doom and gory horror, but I'll leave that to someone else, because what stood out for me was a moment in this book that was a shock to my romanticalistic system! I had been completely wrapped up in the action when suddenly the concern for everything these two were going through, and had gone through, just flat out punched me in the heart. I felt them. I was reading, engaged, caught up in the intensity of the danger when, BAM, the love and care totally hit me. This is like the best of sci-fi with a heart of romance!THE CHARACTERSThanson Nez - The Discretionary, he has to keep secrets. Refined, graceful and carrying the weight of the world in his head."I'm a glorified message-taker exiled to the @ss-end of nowhere, and you left Corve to *ck half the 'verse for blackmail material.Big win, right there.""A sixteenth." Thanson's smirk held all the mirth he'd abandoned, his negligent hand wave almost dismissive. "An eighth, at most. I have to sleep sometime, you know."Kazra Ferdow - A fighter, a scrapper, a survivor. "Kazra needed to die trying..."THE STORYKazra and Thanson have a past, but it's the immediate future that's out to get them. At every turn a new obstacle tries to cut them off from their one chance at rescue. Between being chased by not!zombies and an impending support system failure on an outlying space station these two show us glimpses of their difficult teenage relationship. Through their banter and recollections there is no doubt that these two have a lot to work through, and they do, all while being chased and running out of time.You find out that escaping is what these two do best, unfortunately, the last time, they lost each other along the way. Now that they've caught up again their long hidden emotions rise to the surface for better or worse. It's shocking, tender, heart-wrenching and all the while I was being pulled deeper into their relationship.It ends with a HFN and I really, really hope this series will give me future glimpses of these guys.THE WRITINGThis is my first Reesa Herberth book, but it will not be my last. I found the writing to be tight, with no wasted words. In fact, I thought, there were moments of writing brilliance. Not fluffy or drippy (how wrong would that be in sci-fi?), but emotional and tender in a way that fit the story-line, perfectly.If I have one issue with the story it's about my failure to understand how it's going to connect into the rest of the series. I think I'm missing something here. It didn't detract from the story though and there will be more explanation in future books, so I can be patient. I am most certainly not done with this series, or this `verse. I really feel like this is going to be one to sink my teeth into.~ ~ ~I would like to thank Riptide Publishing for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.~ ~ ~