Helpful Score: 13
OK, wow, this book exceeded my expectations. The writer portrays a futuristic landscape - post nuclear with extreme climate changes, governed by a corrupt New Government Organization and by big business (headed by bad guy Duncan Bane). There are two extremely interesting protagonists. Raina Bowen is in hiding from Duncan Bane, and determined to win the 50 million interdollars awarded in to the first trucker to deliver their cargo to Gladow Station. Wizard is the contact she was supposed to meet at Bob's Truck stop so that she can get a special license to ride the ICW, the Intercontinental Worldwide. Only things go wrong and the two are thrown together for longer than expected.
I enjoyed how Wizard had a robotic personality - like Data on Star Trek he takes things literally and has a hard time with human interaction. Raina is similar but not such an extreme case - she keeps people at a distance and has long hardened herself to expect betrayal. I enjoyed how she pointedly shoved Wizard away when he encrouched her space and hid her emotions even when she found herself attracted to him. It was an interesting relationship to see develop between the two. I thought the author did a great job blending both light science fiction and romance. Lovers of only one of those camps may be turned off by the presence of another genre blended in here, or they may enjoy reading something different. I definitely liked the blend. There are sex scenes and while they did go on a little, they didn't feel gratuitious. The world-building was done well - information was given as needed, not as a huge info dump, and the plot was action packed and well paced, even till the end. There was a good balance between the story and the focus on the relationship. I'm very pleased with this one.
I enjoyed how Wizard had a robotic personality - like Data on Star Trek he takes things literally and has a hard time with human interaction. Raina is similar but not such an extreme case - she keeps people at a distance and has long hardened herself to expect betrayal. I enjoyed how she pointedly shoved Wizard away when he encrouched her space and hid her emotions even when she found herself attracted to him. It was an interesting relationship to see develop between the two. I thought the author did a great job blending both light science fiction and romance. Lovers of only one of those camps may be turned off by the presence of another genre blended in here, or they may enjoy reading something different. I definitely liked the blend. There are sex scenes and while they did go on a little, they didn't feel gratuitious. The world-building was done well - information was given as needed, not as a huge info dump, and the plot was action packed and well paced, even till the end. There was a good balance between the story and the focus on the relationship. I'm very pleased with this one.
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