Review: Interesting use of a Masquerade
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2013
MindLink has an interesting start and one that caught my attention right away.  Who would have thought to send an actress masquerading as a scientist to meet an alien species?  Of course she is caught, not because she is a bad actress but because the role was not what anyone thought.  With that novel beginning the story moves along a very unique path.  Sam or ZXQ-One goes from being the villain to being the hero.  Ashley becomes a star in a very different way.I like the way the plot developed.  There is no love at first sight for Ashley and Sam.  They start as enemies, progress to barely willing to speak, have to work together to escape and then there is the mind link.  Even that does not lead straight to love.  In fact it complicates things even further.  Who wants an alien knowing what you are thinking?  But who is the alien and who is the human?Both Sam and Ashley did a lot of changing and growing as the story progressed.  Sam had spent his life in a very structured society.  His change came as he realized that what he had always believed was no longer true.  Ashley had to forgive herself for the thing she did in the past.  The story worked because both characters grew and changed.I enjoyed reading MindLink.  It is a good addition to SFR.