Alex Whitehall’s Second Skin is a stand-alone title, set mainly on an American college campus. I really appreciate and admire what the author is trying to do with this story.Second Skin is a NA (New Adult) romance title, this I believe places protagonists in their early twenties. NA is a sub-genre that is hard to…
The Cybernetic Tea Shop is a very quiet and sweet little novella which tells the love story of Clara, a highly-skilled technician, and Sal, a female robot, who has a tea shop in Seattle. Clara has always been on the move, not staying long in one place, her wanderlust bringing her to new places nearly…
Captain Ivan Vorpatril, cousin of the famous (notorious?) Miles Vorkosigan, agrees as a favor to informally check on a woman who has drawn the interest of some criminals under investigation. Never immune to stunningly gorgeous women, especially ones in distress, Ivan finds himself sucked into a situation as convoluted as anything his Miles has ever…
In The Other Side of Winter by G.B. Gordon, our two heroes, Bengt and Alex, are being reunited after a year apart, hoping that their week-long romance was enough to keep them together now that they are in the same place. Alex is one of many refugees from Santuario, a poor and corrupt nation, hoping…
I consider myself a Sci-Fi Lite fan. I love science fiction that is easy on the science component, more character driven than focused on futuristic techno-imaginings that require hard thinking to understand. Imagine my delight upon discovering Fortune’s Pawn, the first title in Rachel Bach’s sci-fi trilogy that is light on techno but heavy with…
I’ve been a science fiction/fantasy fan for as long as I can remember. My first crush was Mr. Spock, which probably speaks to why I like romance. Gotta love those emotionally unavailable men! Every once in a while I like to go back to my roots and dig out a purely sci fi adventure story….
This book is available from Amazon and other online retailers. Mixing the holidays and science fiction appears to be the perfect combination, with a bit of the traditional mixed in with the creative and imaginative. And while I liked two of the stories, I do wish that the combination had been a little heavier on…
Before I read the romances of Ava Gray and Ellen Connor, Ann Aguirre’s pseudonyms, I was a huge fan of her Sirantha Jax sci-fi series. Although science fiction will always come after my first love of romances, this awesome series runs a very close second. Set in the very far future where humans have colonized…
Wow, once this book grabs hold of you, it doesn’t let go. I read the first book, Song of Scarabaeus, and enjoyed it, so I jumped at the opportunity to review this second in the series. While you can still enjoy this book as a stand alone, I believe reading the first gives you a…
Truth be told, I mostly got my copy of Songs of Love and Death because it features a story by Linnea Sinclair, an auto-buy author for me. There are stories by a lot of other authors in it that I admire or have heard good things about, so that was an added inducement. All in…