Helpful Score: 3
Saved by very unusual medical procedures she's part human and alien, which is good, mostly. We suffer through her love life, which is one of the things I truly didn't like. To me, her sexual encounter, first one, was almost rape. I enjoy many of the characters but not her ultimate love interest. Actually husband. Pretty good story though with some decent possible science thrown in. I like Viehls work and consider her pretty good but not great, yet. It is worth a read though.
Helpful Score: 3
This book is in the Stardoc series, but on a different planet and about different characters. More interesting aliens, nasty League enemies and lots of action.
Helpful Score: 2
If you enjoy Viehl's Star Doc series, you'll likely enjoy this one. The setting is the same as the Star Doc series and a few peripheral characters are in this one. As usual, there is a lot of romance (definitely leans toward the kind of scenes you expect in a "romance novel"). If you don't want, um, "things" graphically illustrated for you, you might not want to read it. Viehl's books are easier to read/understand than Czerneda's, another science fiction/fantasy writer who includes a lot of character development and romance-type plot lines.
All that being said, the book is a great read. There are several surprises, which is always a good thing. The characters are not "one note" and actually feel as if they could be someone I know. (Aside from being aliens. Then again...)
All that being said, the book is a great read. There are several surprises, which is always a good thing. The characters are not "one note" and actually feel as if they could be someone I know. (Aside from being aliens. Then again...)
Helpful Score: 1
I didn't realize this was going to be different characters than the Stardoc series she has written but once I started reading it I found I liked it just as well.
I absolutely loved this book. The interaction between species and the different planets was refreshing and new to me. So I think I will read more of this series as it becomes available to me. Loved the Aquatic species and the interspecies relationships between "mouth-breathers" and Aquatics.
