by Nicole
| Title: | Love Script |
| Author: | Tiffany Ashley |
| Publication Date: | December, 2010 |
| Publisher's Description | To get the deal … he’ll need her help.
Determined to land a huge advertising account for his company, Nicolas Sinclair gets a LITTLE carried away and tells the potential client he’s married and about to celebrate his first anniversary. Now, Nick has a serious problem—he has agreed to a high-stakes cruise with this important client and must find a willing “wife” to join him.
Laney Parks is either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place at the right time—She isn’t sure which. She isn’t even entirely sure how she got roped into posing as her hunky boss’s wife. She finds “sticking to the script” SERIOUSLY unnerving, especially when it involves cuddling up and kissing in public—and sharing the close confines of a cabin, and its single bed, with him. |
| My rating: | ** |
Maybe I went into this book with my expectations too high, or maybe I’m just over the Harlequin Presents-type asshole hero who woos his woman with his jerky behavior and low opinion of her, and then completely wins her over with his terrible behavior. So Nick was just like that, but worse, because I didn’t know that this was going to be that type of book and hadn’t braced myself. This book wasn’t terrible, but I just couldn’t really connect very well with either of the two main characters or invest too much in their story.
*Spoilers, I guess*
Laney was too nice for Nick. I really hope that he does spend the rest of his life apologizing to her, preferably every hour on the hour, for her agreeing to put up with him. He’s just an awful person, in a way that no amount of sex appeal or skills can make up for.
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by Nicole
| Title: | Paradise 21 |
| Author: | Aubrie Dionne |
| Publication Date: | August 2, 2011 |
| Publisher's Description | Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind’s last hope, the New Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew—a planet that won’t be reached in Aries’ lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.But Aries has other plans.
When her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries discovers the rumors about pirates—humans who escaped Earth before its demise—are true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries envies, and the two connect on a level she never thought possible. But pursued by her match from above and hunted by the planet’s native inhabitants, Aries quickly learns her freedom will come at a hefty price.
The life of the man she loves. |
| My rating: | **** |
I was really impressed with this book. The premise drew me in, which I found surprising, since I don’t usually care too much for space operas. Aries was a fascinating lead character, one whose struggle for autonomy in her incredibly regimented life was easy to identify with. In the hands of a lesser author, Aries could have been a kind of Mary Sue, but Ms. Dionne managed to give Aries’s naivete resonance and keep her interesting regardless of the situation she was in. The world she inhabited was basically Space Communism, right down to the type of covert rule-breaking that was endemic to those who were in charge and above public scrutiny. I liked the way the book ended, with everybody set up to get more or less their just desserts, in a way that maybe not even they understood. I look forward to the next book in this series.
I highly recommend this book not only to science fiction fans, but also to people like me, who never thought that they’d be into science fiction, but are always up for a good story.
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