Publisher: Changeling Press
Date
published: March 15, 2013
ISBN: BIN: 06259-02011
Science Fiction
E-book
Reviewed by Helen
Obtained via
publisher
The father
of Eden’s child is in jail and only paying restitution to the victims will
ensure his release, so Eden enters a survivor game on an uninhabited world,
determined to win the money and free him.
Brock
Deltarin has also entered the game to win the money to free Jake, his best
friend. Formerly the three of them were in a ménage relationship, but when
everything went wrong and Jake was jailed Brock couldn’t forgive himself.
Meeting Eden reminds him of everything he’s lost and wants back.
I like short
books as they often pack a very powerful punch bringing characters and worlds to
life fast, with no padding or excess words. (I like long books too, but that’s
another book review!) This book, at only 17,000 words, sounded excellent. An
uninhabited world to explore as the characters traveled through it, three main
characters to have their personalities revealed and an erotic romance so some
hot sex. The book definitely delivers on the sex, but it’s between Brock and
Eden only, as Jake’s in jail.
I did not
get a mental picture of the first world. We’re told twice people have been
injured because it’s so dangerous, but the only danger we see Eden face is
because of her personal situation, not caused by the world at all. No plants,
trees, animals etc are truly described, and even when they stop overnight we
only get a thumbnail sketch of the area. I would have liked much more
world-building, not necessarily a big world count, but at least a couple of
detailed paragraphs of the area.
The same
with her home world. We hear about traveling on the tube but again I had no
picture of it. Is it like the Tube in Britain? An elevator? A train? Or what.
Even a few sentences of clarification would have been helpful. Also, I needed
clarification of the only meal scene we see. I ended up quite confused about
who was eating what.
Ms. Orfanelli writes excellent hot sex, although as I said
before, they were MF scenes. Similarly we don’t have a chance to know Jake all
that well, seeing him mainly though Eden’s eyes and as a focus for her
actions. But we do come to appreciate
Eden’s personality and to understand Brock.
This is an objective review and not
an endorsement of this book.
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