Review: On the fence...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
It took me a bit to get into: the tense it was written in disagreed with me at the start as it felt that I was reading a very amateurish piece and I almost put it down as being not worth the read. I believe that this was actually due to the personality and "tone" of the narrator - a strange blend of unsophisticated slang and immaturity and sophisticated and educated intelligence.The story is a different take of an old theme - an alien race struggling with population issues needs human women to breed with - except they are sourcing their breeders from earth past, and not having one baby at a time, but fertilising and then harvesting eggs.Maritza has rather a blasé acceptance that her babies will be fostered out and makes no enquiries as to whether she gets to keep or raise any of her own which, while I understand that the character is a survivalist and therefore habitually accepts what is beyond her control, as a mother I found hard to relate to.Her continued domesticity with Elentinus after what is pretty much a rape through intoxication was also a little uncomfortable for me to read. It didn't feel "true".There is a dark subtext to the story - things we don't know about that are hinted at and lead into the next book - which makes me think that the conclusion is going to be Maritza swaying Elentinus into a more "humane" leadership and a HEA together as that's the normal trend of these stories.That said, I am now in that quandary of not really wanting to read the next book but also very curious as to what will happen next that will inevitably lead to me purchasing again from this author.For the length, the book is also very over priced! 62 pages estimated.