Michelle A. (hippie-mama) - reviewed on 4/7/2009 + 12 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

A romance, disguised as a sci-fi/fantasy, disguised as a romance.

I'm not generally a romance reader, so i was unsure when i picked this one up, because of where it was very obviously going. But it ended up being a good story, despite some of the contrived situations it presented. There were some steamy (albeit vanilla) scenes that didn't leave me cringing or laughing at the characters (which is usually the case).

What did leave me rolling my eyes was all the made-up words for common things. Alright, it's set on another world, i get that. But calling a bathtub a "bubble-pool" still seems silly to me. There was so much of this, that there's actually a glossary of terms at the end of the book. Also, use of terms such as "she-lord" and the like, in a society where the women hold ALL political power seems redundant. It's like calling rice dishes "Chinese food" while in China.

As a whole, i liked this one. The characters were mostly believable, and it was a sweet story that made me smile at the end.

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