Review: immature and cliché
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
I love science fiction and I love m/m stories. This book got me disappointed in both regards. I won't describe everything that felt wrong, I'll just list two main issues.First, the story is so immature I sometimes felt I was reading a comic book for elementary school children. Of course, the plot was that of a popular fairy tale, where people are bound together by some external force for life, and right off the bat they are so in love they cannot live without each other. But even setting that aside, the events and actions of characters were unjustified or often based on some artificial presumption of the author.The biggest thorn in my side was the groundless and unexplained declaration that the whole population of scientists, doctors and soldiers on the human side were outright sadists. That's just not believable, there is nothing to explain the strange phenomenon which is just repeated over and over again. Scientists and doctors in the book do not to behave like professionals of intellectual persuasion, who can be cruel, though not for the pleasure of causing pain but for the scientific purpose.The scientists here are trigger happy blood thirsty maniacs – which is actually used to create the premise for the story. This leaves the whole story without any logical basis other than the author just wanted to write it this way. "Science" side of this fiction is very poorly done.The second main problem for me was already mention in another review. One of the main characters could be replaced by a woman - change a name and add some breasts - and the story would not change one bit. It would even bee far more believable. One of my biggest disappointments happen when in m/m fiction one of the "m" is actually a female in all regards but the body.