Helpful Score: 1
Poor Lori Foster, getting dumped on so badly for trying something fresh and new. This is definitely a science fiction romance, so if you have to have contemporary, forget it. And while the character is from the SBC series, there is very little connection.
The book is very weak as science fiction; there is nothing about how our society changed into this very different one. Apparently we have evolved or devolved into a society of "colonies" that participate in and are ruled by the laws of a much larger (global?) government. For the particular colony most described in this story, leadership is hereditary, with appointed offices for important departments. The main female character Kayli is the "Claviger", the head warrior, in charge of security for the colony, within and without. She is also the daughter to the "Arbiter", the leader of the colony. This colony has a surplus of females, with the other colony involved in the story having a surplus of males; there is no attempt to explain this fact.
A badly injured fighter is offered a return to health if he will travel two centuries into the future to help a "colony" in need. They have so few males that they are unwilling to risk them in combat, so the military is all female. However, they are being bullied by another colony and feel the need for outside help--the assistance that they are asking of the 21st century professional fighter, Mallet.
If you can just accept the setting without caveat, you are left free to read a very enjoyable story.
The book is very weak as science fiction; there is nothing about how our society changed into this very different one. Apparently we have evolved or devolved into a society of "colonies" that participate in and are ruled by the laws of a much larger (global?) government. For the particular colony most described in this story, leadership is hereditary, with appointed offices for important departments. The main female character Kayli is the "Claviger", the head warrior, in charge of security for the colony, within and without. She is also the daughter to the "Arbiter", the leader of the colony. This colony has a surplus of females, with the other colony involved in the story having a surplus of males; there is no attempt to explain this fact.
A badly injured fighter is offered a return to health if he will travel two centuries into the future to help a "colony" in need. They have so few males that they are unwilling to risk them in combat, so the military is all female. However, they are being bullied by another colony and feel the need for outside help--the assistance that they are asking of the 21st century professional fighter, Mallet.
If you can just accept the setting without caveat, you are left free to read a very enjoyable story.
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