Review: I wanted to like it, but....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
I did not hate the book. Writing was not the best but I could live with it. Nothing very original in the story or the science. However, I did like the characters and did get involved in the story.Here is the problem. Mr. Smith REALLY needs to decide if he is going to write science fiction or romance. Yes, I know he discloses this in the description. I just don't think the two things fit together very well. Here I am reading a science fiction story and all of a sudden there are a couple pages of steamy romance thrown in. While I don't mind the "heat" so much. I am not a prude or anything. I just don't think it fit and I did not like it. I almost felt like the science fiction part of the story was just filler to set up the steamy romance.Maybe I am just not the target audience for this book. I did not even bother to read Fifty Shades..... ;)Oh, I also have to say the whole ghost ship thing is pretty lame and I could have done without it. More importantly, I think the story could have done without it. It is one thing to pay respects to the lost crew but quite another to give them an active role in the story.