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michanikos's review against another edition
I'm not really sure why, just one of those books I put down and never picked back up.
alesia_charles's review
1.0
Just can't bring myself to read any more. Maybe the main character turns out not to be exactly like Podkayne of Mars by the end, but I don't care. I just want to stab her in the eye with a stiletto fricking heel.
nnecatrix's review against another edition
4.0
I had a lot of fun tagging along with Thena on her adventures. I have to admit that I did get a little impatient with her romantic protestations, and the pacing in general seemed a little off at times. I also thought there were far too many references to 21st-century culture to be very realistic. So, yeah, this was a little cheesy. But it was highly entertaining cheese.
celiaedf12's review against another edition
1.0
I read this for the Women in Science Fiction book club, and was pretty put off by the cover (which looks very trashy), but I thought it couldn't be that bad. But yes, it was pretty bad. Athena, our irritating heroine who has amazing abilities with machines, gets kidnapped by genetically altered humans, has to stay on their world for a while, heads back home, has a showdown with her evil father... that sounds kind of exciting, right? But the plotting either drags or races way too fast, the showdown that the entire novel builds up to takes about half a page, and the romance was awful (I disliked both characters, so I guess maybe that's what they saw in each other). Very disappointing.
dee2799d's review against another edition
3.0
Sort of guilty pleasure space opera book with a funny female character and an okay sort of male lead (Kit's funny too, but idk, he sort of feels generic male lead to me?).
I've read Sarah Hoyt before and her female characters are hit or miss for me, but I liked Athena well enough. This reminds me of some of Tanith Lee's sci-fi novels ([b:Biting the Sun|373009|Biting the Sun|Tanith Lee|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320466660s/373009.jpg|362927]) and except for a bit near the end where we are suddenly reminded that fight scenes could happen (seriously, it was becoming like a domestic AU) and I had to shift my mental gears a bit to take it all in--I breezed through the book happily chuckling at the appropriate bits.
Which is good, because NAT. My only problem with this book is that we got 80% of balls kicking and sassy female character without knowing that Nat would make an appearance later on and make me very happy. Nat is my favourite. I wish there was more of him.
This puts me in the mood for more space opera novels. I might be reading Catherine Asaro soon. (Although her books are usually hard sci fi novels masquerading as romance?)
I've read Sarah Hoyt before and her female characters are hit or miss for me, but I liked Athena well enough. This reminds me of some of Tanith Lee's sci-fi novels ([b:Biting the Sun|373009|Biting the Sun|Tanith Lee|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320466660s/373009.jpg|362927]) and except for a bit near the end where we are suddenly reminded that fight scenes could happen (seriously, it was becoming like a domestic AU) and I had to shift my mental gears a bit to take it all in--I breezed through the book happily chuckling at the appropriate bits.
Which is good, because NAT. My only problem with this book is that we got 80% of balls kicking and sassy female character without knowing that Nat would make an appearance later on and make me very happy. Nat is my favourite. I wish there was more of him.
This puts me in the mood for more space opera novels. I might be reading Catherine Asaro soon. (Although her books are usually hard sci fi novels masquerading as romance?)
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