For the record the red cover was the original design I believe for the book cover, but then Bantam went with the new redesign for all the books. I have the redesign cover and like it better. Well I like the gun on the red cover better, but I like the ship on the redesign. In case you didn't notice I have a thing for ships and space stations (blame it on my love of Star Trek).

I admit that when I see 'zombie' I want brain-eating undead (like Resident Evil). These weren't zombies in that sense, which as it turned out I was okay with. Jorie and Theo's relationship was, as usual, believable and tense. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the women in Linnea's books being the ones with 'powers' (for lack of a better word)?

I enjoyed the book because it was a Linnea Sinclair book and had all the necessary hallmarks to make it a good scifi read with romance tossed in. It isn't however, my favorite book and if it had been any other author I would have put the book down and not finished it. It wasn't unfortunately as attention-enthralling as her previous books I'd read and I blame myself for that because everytime I saw 'Earth' or 'Florida' I cringed. I like my scifi in outer space away from Earth. As far away as possible when possible.

Sorry for the late (lacklustre) review. Gabriel's Ghost and Shades of Dark will both be posted today. Hope's Folly will be posted tomorrow or Monday (depending on if my sister drags me into NYC for the teen author festival or not). ( )

Perfect combination of sexy romance and science fiction. Easy to slide into, easy to stay lost in the story until the end. Glad I have another of her books to read next week. ( )

Decent romance/sci-fi mash-up. Pretty good plot and not too bad in not leaving too many holes. ( )

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Ugh. My least favorite Sinclair. The problem is, it starts off with this huge ridiculous logic fail - my suspension of disbelief snapped, and it took a good three-quarters of the book to get me back into the story. It ended up pretty well (ok, very convenient, but still - at least they thought about the problems before they all magically went away), and I quite like both Jorie and Theo. The matching backstories are, again, overly convenient. The problem scene is where...OK, she's a pilot. I can almost stretch to believing she could figure out a car (at least it's an automatic). But...she's never heard of traffic regulations? Leave aside that their agent-in-place has apparently told them about holiday lights but not traffic lights. She's used to driving (on the ground or in the air - in fact, it would be worse in the air) with no control on speed, no channels (lanes), no rules at all? And then she manages to drive this way, across half a city, _without_ bringing a long train of cops after her to the target location. Yeah, no. Sorry. It's a cute scene, that doesn't work if you think about it at _all_, and that is promptly ignored - she never drives again, she never seems to pay attention to Theo driving (figuring out traffic lights, maybe?). It could have been cleanly excised, and probably should have been. There are way too many coincidences, the overall plot makes no sense (to the characters either - they keep trying to figure out _why_ this should be happening, even once they know who). The romance runs on rails, the SF runs off them frequently. Not a favorite. Not terrible - I've read a lot worse, and I did enjoy many bits of it - but as I said above, my least favorite Sinclair. ( )