Review: Neanderthals in space
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
The writing in this book is comical.  It's the sci-fi version of Me, Tarzan; You Jane.: "He led her to table.  It was crowded.  He put down the water and sat.  He spread his thighs."  And: "You are little.  You would not survive long.  They would hurt you.  You are mine.  You and I are in love.  Do you understand?"  Um - yeah, I understand.  I'm pretty sure a third-grader would understand this level of writing.  I get why the author wrote dialogue in this manner.  But there's no justification for the non-dialogue to be written in the same fashion.  The lead characters are a human, Ariel, and an alien warrior.  The author works around the communication issue by having Ariel's ear implanted with a translation device that allows her to communicate with the aliens.  All well and good, but couldn't the author have attempted a level of English that falls somewhere in the middle of Neanderthal-esque and Shakespearean?  I almost felt embarrassed reading it.Bad dialogue aside, the book is harmless fun.  It's the story of a race of aliens capturing females around the universe for potential breeding, as their own females are dying out.  The author compensates with some juicy sex scenes, and the book gets three stars just for that.