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A review by luftschlosseule
Altered Tides by Harry F. Rey
3.0
trigger warning
abusive relationship, trauma, racism
Captain Ales has landed on a very dry planet, where the rain is overdue and people are lethargic from living on one teardrop per day. Meanwhile, the land and ocean population of the neighboring planet ready themselves for war.
The setting was what intrigued me the most, I believe. We have two planets, so impossible close to each other they share the atmosphere. Once every fourty years, the oceans from the blue planet get sucked up and land as rain on the red planet, where people will first celebrate and then scramble to save every last drop they can, because it will take nearly another generation till the rain will fall again.
Our protagonist is literally thrown in there, is unconscious and dragged to a city after his crash.
Thankfully, the device strapped to his wrist is able to get a translation going, so he can puzzle out what's going on.
Though this is the fifth part of a series, due to him landing on a foreign planet and being there for most of the book, it posed no problem for me to get into it. I could have done without the two sex scenes, but now I know what to expect from this author and this series.
But I have to admit that the use of spit as lubricant freaks me out. You know that spit has flesh dissolving properties, right?
The main question I have is what the different of homo sapiens and hetero sapiens is, which is never explained, while the distinction is used pretty often.
If you're into sex scenes in books, and into sci fi, especially into first contact kind of stories, this could appeal to you.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
Captain Ales has landed on a very dry planet, where the rain is overdue and people are lethargic from living on one teardrop per day. Meanwhile, the land and ocean population of the neighboring planet ready themselves for war.
The setting was what intrigued me the most, I believe. We have two planets, so impossible close to each other they share the atmosphere. Once every fourty years, the oceans from the blue planet get sucked up and land as rain on the red planet, where people will first celebrate and then scramble to save every last drop they can, because it will take nearly another generation till the rain will fall again.
Our protagonist is literally thrown in there, is unconscious and dragged to a city after his crash.
Thankfully, the device strapped to his wrist is able to get a translation going, so he can puzzle out what's going on.
Though this is the fifth part of a series, due to him landing on a foreign planet and being there for most of the book, it posed no problem for me to get into it. I could have done without the two sex scenes, but now I know what to expect from this author and this series.
But I have to admit that the use of spit as lubricant freaks me out. You know that spit has flesh dissolving properties, right?
The main question I have is what the different of homo sapiens and hetero sapiens is, which is never explained, while the distinction is used pretty often.
If you're into sex scenes in books, and into sci fi, especially into first contact kind of stories, this could appeal to you.
The arc was provided by the publisher.