Okay, I screwed up. LOL. I actually finished reading this one while still reading Driven but somehow forgot to post a review. So I'll number it 21 and call it good.
Shades of Dark is book 2 in the Dock 5 series by Linnea Sinclair. It follows directly on the heels of Gabriel's Ghost and continues the story in a very inventive and suspenseful way.
There's action, speedbumps in the continuing romance, new characters and lots of fun. I really, really enjoyed this novel as it peeled back more layers in the onion of the original story. At the end of the novel the whole universe has changed and I had the feeling that the Big Picture was about to hit the fan.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this fun and complex story. I loved learning more about the characters from the first book.
It's a keeper for me. I'm sure I'll read it again some day.
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Next? I'm reading a short story called Kiana: The Rea Cheveyo Chronicles by Rayne Forrest.
After that I'd love to continue the Dock 5 series but since book 3, Hope's Folly, is only on my hard-drive I don't know how fast I can read it. I'm more into portability right now.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
#20! Driven by Eve Kenin
Hi!
I picked up this book because it was the BOM for the Goodreads SFR section and I needed to read more SFR for the challenge anyway.
This story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world of global climate change and fledgling genetic manipulation. The heroine, Raina, is a truck driver on a trans-world highway. Think Ice Truckers meets Road Warrior meets Dark Angel and you get the gist of the main elements of this story. There's romance of a sort, mild sex, and character growth. There's action, interesting secondary characters, and a heroine who saves herself.
On the downside I found the first half repetitive in respect to the heroine's isssues and I never really warmed up to the hero who spent the first half of the book as warm as an ice cube--but there were reasons for these issues, and they were resolved/explained later in the book.
The bad guy is really awful, if a bit two-dimensional. He was definitely creepy.
The ending is pretty good with lots of action and a happy for now.
Overall I think Driven was good enough for me to try more of Ms. Kenin's stories. She has potential in the SFR realm.
I picked up this book because it was the BOM for the Goodreads SFR section and I needed to read more SFR for the challenge anyway.
This story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world of global climate change and fledgling genetic manipulation. The heroine, Raina, is a truck driver on a trans-world highway. Think Ice Truckers meets Road Warrior meets Dark Angel and you get the gist of the main elements of this story. There's romance of a sort, mild sex, and character growth. There's action, interesting secondary characters, and a heroine who saves herself.
On the downside I found the first half repetitive in respect to the heroine's isssues and I never really warmed up to the hero who spent the first half of the book as warm as an ice cube--but there were reasons for these issues, and they were resolved/explained later in the book.
The bad guy is really awful, if a bit two-dimensional. He was definitely creepy.
The ending is pretty good with lots of action and a happy for now.
Overall I think Driven was good enough for me to try more of Ms. Kenin's stories. She has potential in the SFR realm.
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