Publisher: Samhain Publishing.
Teaser: Melissa "Lucky" Chance is a career petty thief. In a world where the tech to surf the web is implanted at birth, she's talented, spunky and gifted with a cute face that blends in. Getting caught...again...is par for the course, until the new governor of the fairly isolated Jovian Colonies decides to make an example of all those being prosecuted that day. Her only hope of escape lies in the sexy form of The Butcher, a mass murderer.
John Ramius knows he deserves the nickname The Butcher for killing 50 men in as few minutes. But no one else understands his particular Hell--the ability to sense another's deepest needs and the overwhelming compulsion to fulfill them. His only hope of escaping to fulfill the dying desire of his last lover is a cute and talented thief with deep-seated needs of her own.
Together they discover a world full of lies, politics and manipulation.
This book contains graphic sex, though not a LOT of it.
Review:
I love the cover of this ebook. The guy resembles Vin Diesel. Ms. Knox's books are now on my auto-buy list. I completely enjoyed this. I'm not one to normally read books with graphic sex but this one didn't cross over into gratuitous. The few sex scenes were well-developed, fit the plot and advanced the character development.
I immediately liked Chance. She's snarky with a dark side. She's a nymphomaniac out of avoidance. She's not perfect and not drop dead gorgeous. I like that.
John is scary at first. Of course, he's The Butcher, he's supposed to be scary. He's also the perfect compliment for his heroine, Chance. They work together perfectly.
I loved the worldbuilding, the character development, and the sentient ship was sweet. The SF was good, and the Romance was good if a little dark.
The bad? Well, there's nothing "bad" per se. I do wish there'd been another 50 pages (or 200) of plot and character development. It's a novella so the h/h get to the HEA very fast, *almost* a bit too fast. Things are mentioned that I would have loved to read more about. Some of the scenes feel cut to the bare minimum for space.
This could easily have been a 300-400 page book. And I would have loved it.
Out of 10 stars I give this a 9. On the SFR rainbow of SF to R I give it a solid 5 with pretty equal amounts of both.
Here's a link to find it on All Romance Ebooks. There's a Kindle version too. http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-breakingchance-418171-143.html
Sounds like a good read, I might have to check it out :)
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