Review: Excellent
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2011
I'm not normally into sci-fi - I start to get nitpicky about worlds, which is so not the point - but Somerville didn't go wild on this aspect; most of the world is pretty recognizable, even if clearly not ours, and the characters certainly are.Dek and Ren are both well-developed characters and I liked the push-pull between them; there's a lot of attraction, which they both acknowledge, but these are mature guys with other things also going on in their lives and other priorities, and they don't just drop everything for lurve.I also like the way the book is set up, with a couple of shorter stories in the beginning, which set the scene, and then the longer story line.I'm happy to have found this, and am definitely moving onto the sequel, because something tells me that these guys' HEA isn't going to come very easily.