Review: 4.5 Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
This book is an excellent example of what I look for in small press. Love the fresh feel, raw, off-the-page characters, and tech talk. Exceptionally tightly written, fast-paced, tough heroine, dangerous hero, romantic plot balanced well with the rest of the story. I was especially enamored of the love scenes: steamy, but not wholly explicit. The world-building was excellent, except that I felt disadvantaged at the start. I stopped reading after the (action-packed) first chapter to check the author’s website in order to find out if I really needed to read the preceding novella. She/they said it was really only a prequel and this book stood on its own. I’m not so sure. I did manage to suspend my confusion and just embrace the story until things became clearer (rather like I did watching “The Cloud Atlas” movie, if that helps). Although the ending was quite satisfying (a sticking point for me), I do hope another book in the series gets published. There were a number of intriguing secondary characters from which to choose and the epic story arc remains open.