Review: corn chips
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2012
Scifi romance at its best uses future society and other worlds to create characters that reveal some human truth. Sometimes however, the scifi aspect is just a prop-- interchangeable with other locales and times. Sadly, Mara could just as easily been a smuggler in old England and Kell  an officer in the British army. Instead, Kell is a black wraith pilot fighting against PRAXIS--a mercenary corporate government taking over the known universe, and Mara is a scavenger coerced into helping him rescue another black wraith pilot taken to the Smoke--a world of smugglers and criminals.Cliche abounds. Everything gets a new, spiffy futuresque name, but stays the same. Mara wears a nyrrkin hide jacket that hugs her curves instead of leather, but it does the same job . They fall in instant--lust despite their differences and the constant danger of their mission (flying through asteroid belts and infiltrating black market auctions) and can't keep their thoughts (and hands) off each other. Together, these two are definitely hawt--and the sex scenes have the emotional/character revealing qualities of this author's Blades of the Rose series that I heartily reccomend. However, in the end their romance and Mara's decision about her life path felt rushed and undeveloped.This Book's Snack Rating: a snack sized portion of corn chips-- salty and crunchy but leaving you with a desire for just a bit more flavor.