Review: Too long and jumped around
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2011
Jaide is being forced to amp up the Draconian ships along with her mentor, Sesame.  But that's not her real problem... the real problem is Sky.  Sky really wants her, and will stop at nothing to get her.  Jaide doesn't want anything to do with him... or does she?Ok, I admit it... I looked at the reviews and strongly debated getting this book.  But with one really good review and one really bad, I got a sample of the book instead.  The sample seemed good, so I took a chance. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you loose, and this time I appeared to have lost.The book starts off with two spunky, brilliant women that are in demand because of their talents with revving up space ships.  My first clue that this book was really going to annoy me was when the Draconians showed up, demanded they give up everything and go with them... and they did. Then Sky was romancing Jaide and expected her to understand his customs, even though he hadn't said anything and their society was known to be secretive so she wouldn't undertand.  This created some problems that could have been prevented if he'd just explained.  Jaide ended up being so submissive it was annoying.  Yes, she runs off, but for some reason comes back and puts up with all of his stuff AGAIN, even to the point of shrugging her shoulders when he purposefully gets her pregnant when she told him she wanted to wait.  The thing with the brother really annoyed me, and the ending was just to contrived for me to believe it. To top it all off, I have no idea why the synopsis included Sesame, as she's not really in the story that much except for the beginning.The book started dragging for me half way through, and I kept checking the indicator in Kindle to see how far I got.  There was little chemistry between the two characters, and Jaide was definitely not consistent in her character.  One minute she's a strong person, the next minute she's a wuss who lets him walk all over her.  It was very confusing.  So, why give it a 2 instead of a 1?  The story did have some good points; the writing wasn't too bad, and I liked the idea behind it.  Occasionally I found myself drawn into it, and then the story would spin off into some odd direction (really?  She's gone for two years and decides she was wrong?  What?) and annoy me all over again.  Hopefully I'll have better luck with the next book I buy.