Review: Great adventure and great romance!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2011
Single sentence summary: Ever's must save her lands after her queen is killed and her city is destroyed by bringing the princess home with the help of the attractive captain of supply dirigible.The setting for this book is the what drew me to reading this. Ever's land is some sort of abandoned area of the US. It would be lawless if it wasn't for the women who ruled there (the society sounds like that of the Amazons). The women maintain a prison where criminals from the US are sent when the US government doesn't know what else to do with them. When the city is attacked, Ever must return the heir to the Badlands in order to re-establish order. Sounds cool, right? Well, it sounded cool to me, and I so very nearly loved this book. I only wish the author had given us more about this really cool world.The adventure you got was great! I loved how there was always something happening while Ever and the crew of the dirigible were trying to make their way towards the princess. When the novel ended, all I could think was "What?! I want more!"Ever is an interesting character and I enjoyed reading her story. In fact, most of the characters have interesting quirks and I enjoyed them. Some of the characters were not very detailed and I think the story could have been enhanced further by additional.I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really enjoyed this but I wanted more. More details about the characters. More details about the world. More adventures. I could have loved this book if it had just had more. In the end, I was left wanting and a little disappointed. The author did great at quickly building sexual tension between Ever and Captain Spencer but that didn't fill my thirst for more from this novel. I was really drawn into the setting and the characters quickly but it would have been great to read about them a little longer. It never felt like I wanted more throughout the book besides wanting a little more details about the setting, then the book ended and I realize that I wasn't ready for it to end. I was enjoying to so much that I wanted to keep going.This was a great read and I hope the author revisits the setting in a full length novel. 4.25 Stars.