Showing posts with label Sci-fi romance novel book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sci-fi romance novel book review. Show all posts

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Romance Book Review: PG Forte's Finders Keepers


Author: PG Forte
ISBN: 978-1-62300-089-9
Genre: Sci Fi/ Mystery and Suspense/ Menage/ MM-MF-MFM
Publisher: Loose-id


Emotionally charge futurist novel two people leaving with the grief of losing a partner and another who can't remember who is once was, other than a soldier. 

A year ago Sally's husband died in a work related incident. His partner Aldo, is Sally's best friend. As an undercover cop Aldo meets Caleb. Something about Caleb reminds Aldo of his past, but he can't quite make out what that is. At the same time Sally meets Caleb at her job in the ER. 

Caleb is immediately attracted to Sally, but he's also attracted to Aldo. When Aldo  realizes that the two have met he decides that despite his own desires for Caleb, Caleb is exactly what Sally needs to get through the holidays. Aldo invites both Caleb and Sally to his cabin for the holidays, but once they are there he can't stop thinking that Caleb is so much like his own dead husband and can't help but wonder, especially since Caleb's body has been so surgically changed with nanos and electrodes that Caleb himself can't remember who he is. 

There isn't a whole lot of sci-fi action in this story, except to set the scene of how Caleb can't remember his past. Still, I like the premise behind the story and the well played characters dealing with a complex issue. 

Description:
Sometimes finding what you want is the easy part.

Caleb is a bionic soldier with little-to-no memory of his past. He's seeking the truth about himself and those missing memories.

Aldo's an undercover cop who just might have the answers to Caleb's questions. But if Caleb's the man Aldo thinks he is, how can he let him get away a second time?

Then there's Sally; she's an ER physician who used to be married to Aldo's late partner, Davis. Sally's not dealing with widowhood very well. In fact, it's getting harder, every day, just to find a reason to keep getting out of bed. If the truth about the men's shared past comes to light, she could lose them both. Along with her last, best reason to go on living.

This holiday season, chance will bring them together and give them an opportunity to help one another find what they each want most. But every gift comes with a price. And keeping what they've found once they've found it? Yeah, that's gonna be the hard part.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Romance Book Review: Wired

Author: Liz Maverick 
ISBN: 9781428510937
Genre: Action Romance/ Cyberpunk/ Sci-Fi
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing

Purchase this book here through: Amazon

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Cyberpunk was a new genre on me, but apparently it isn't really new in the literature world. Wired was previously released in 2007 and re-released this month. At first the story line was a little confusing, but once it became obvious where the story was going it got better.

The novel starts with Roxanne running through the streets being pursued by two men she doesn't know. The men, Mason and Leo, seem to be fighting over her for no apparent reason. She manages to get away from them at first, but before she knows it her world is completely changed and she can't decide who to trust.

Mason, a friend she hasn't seen in years, is trying to tell her that she is going to write some simple code in the future and Leo wants it. He tells her she can't trust Leo at all. The problem is that she doesn't really know Mason all the well and when Leo tells her she can't trust Mason, she begins to wonder if she really can.

Now the chase is on, as the three cross cosmic lines, the three move from one time frame until the another with Mason and Leo fighting and Roxanne stuck in the middle not knowing what to do.

While the book starts off a little slow it gets much better toward the middle. The story line is complex and their is a lot to follow along with. Those who like action sci-fi will like this book.

Description: 
Pluck a second out of time, the consequences will change your life forever. Is the man you love really the man you think you know, or is there a version of your life in which he's your enemy?

Seconds aren't like pennies.  They can't be saved in a jar and spent later.  Fate seeps through cracks and shifts like fog.  Pluck a second out of time or slip an extra one in, the consequences will change your life forever.  Is the man you love really the man you think you know, or is there a version of your life in which he's your enemy?  If you didn't know who or what you were before, would you take a chance on becoming that person again?

L. Roxanne Zaborovsky is about to discover fate is comprised of an infinite number of wires, filaments that can be manipulated, and that she's not the one at the controls.  From the roguishly charming Mason Merrick-a shadow from her increasingly tenebrous past-to the dangerously seductive Leonardo Kaysar, she's barely holding on.  This isn't a game, and the pennies are rolling all over the floor.  Roxy just has to figure out which are the ones worth picking up.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Romance Book Review: Edge of Humanity

Author: Carol Hone
ISBN: 978-1-61650-201-0
Genre: Sci-fi/ Romance/ Fantasy
Publisher: Loose-id
Publication Date: Oct. 18, 2010

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Kara narrowly escapes her slaver captors by jumping from their airship and landing in a lake. She is desperate to get to her family after nine years a captivity. Along the way she meets a guide, Hassrian, who is sent to help her make her journey. Along the way she falls in love with Hassrian, and he with her. Kara's slavers are so willing to let her go and send out trackers to take her back.

Quick, well written story with a surprise ending. 

Description:
When someone you love leaves you to die, finding out why can be worse than death.

From the moment Kara plunged from the airship to escape nine years of slavery, she'd been locked in battle with her own mind. Something inside of her doesn't seem right. Confronted with too many unanswered questions, she wonders if her captors have damaged her in some unseen way. 

Seeking answers, Kara begins the journey of reuniting with the family she hasn’t seen since she was a child. Thankfully she isn’t alone on her quest…

Hassrian, a young apprentice to a biomechanical magician, helps guide her down her path. Although Hassrian is reluctant to aid her at first, danger draws the two together.

Only one thing can bring Kara’s hunt for the truth to an end – and it isn’t the looming presence of the airship, Husk.