Review: Good but not great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2012
Unacceptable Risk by Jeanette GreyGrade: C+"Maybe it was the feeling that, even though she couldn't remember how, she'd won and lost, all at once. But still somehow.... someway.... she didn't feel like she could lose anymore."Plix, aka Alice Doyle, has devoted her entire life to finishing her late father's research and taking down the man and company they believe are responsible for her mother's death. Plix is so determined to take down Lucien Vicker and his company SynDate that she has gone so far to get cybernetic implants. The implants turn your parts of your body into a computer making you faster, smarter and they store data and evidence. With the help of Edison,the best cybernetic implant tuner in ChiGonE, Plix will do anything to stop Vicker and SynDate and hopefully Edison will be able to pick up the pieces and put her back together.Unacceptable Risk is a science fiction- romance novella set in a place called ChiGonE in the far distant future. Plix is a human who has had so many cybernetic implants that she is at least half robot to help make sure that she is strong enough to take down SynDate. Edison is one, if not the only person, that Plix trusts and interacts with ever and he is also responsible for putting her back together and retrieving all the data that she has stored in hidden parts of herself. They are friends but there is also an unspoken attraction between the two, one that neither has ever acted on that is until Plix is hurt to the point that he almost can't put her back together. Now the two must trust each other completely in order to take down Vicker and have the chance to finally have a relationship.I really enjoyed this novella and the world that Mrs. Grey has created but because it was a novella and so short it left me with a lot of unanswered questions. Plix is a very complex character who one minute is a bad ass and then the next a very lonely, angry woman. Her relationship with Edison is even more complex and at times very frustrating. Plix has devoted her entire life to fulfilling her father's work and she has lost herself in it. She has no friends, no lover, no real life and she has turned herself into more of a machine then a real person. Plix is frustrating and intriguing all at the same time. At times I was so mad at her behavior and then the next I felt so sorry for her which made it difficult to really like her.The main problem that I had was the lack of information I was given especially in the beginning. We are never told about the world that Plix lives in except it's called ChiGonE. There is no explanation of what life is like except that people now use cybernetic implants and that the city is connected to a Hub which sends out information to every one in ChiGonE. I just felt very lost in a world that I would have loved to have known more about. I kept wondering how Edison, who has no implants, lives in a world where everyone else seems literally plugged into the city. Little things like that really bothered me and kept bothering me through the entire novella. I really wish that I was given more details because I think I would have been way less confused and enjoyed the novella much more.Unacceptable Risk was a nice break from the type of romance novels that I usually read and I enjoyed it but I didn't love it. i have too many questions that are still unanswered and such a need to know more about the characters and the world that they live in. I understand this is a novella and very short story but I think that there could have been more details without turning this into a full book. I would like to read more about Plix, Edison and ChiGonE in future books, especially if I can learn more about them and their lives.