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rhodered 's review for:
Lord of the Storm
by Justine Davis
The cover is so very horrific - our stalwart space pilot heroine who is famous across the galaxies for having WON SO MANY BATTLES is portrayed as a breasty slave girl on her knees clutching at the legs of what looks like a blonde Zombie-eyed version of Fabio. I had serious reservations about allowing this cover to enter my home.
It's just damned embarrassing. Yep, I even hid it from the cleaning lady in a kitchen drawer under the cheese grater.
The book also has some serious problems on the plot logistics front. (She's only been in the military for five lousy years and she's already so famous the enemy flees at her name alone? Her commander lets her tool around in her military ship by herself, anywhere she wants, with no crew when she's on leave? Etc.) And the sex scenes have a 1980s-romance-novel-style hangover. Kind of florid without being specific. I had forgotten a scene could go on for so long with so many poetic star bursts but so few details. Glad we evolved. (I prefer just to go offstage pretty quickly or to use plainer language to say what's going on.) Happily though this is not a bangathon because lots of action/adventure in the plot to move onto next, yay!
There's some nice piloting, a couple of tactical maneuvers that would fit in nicely with a regular, non-romance SF military novel.
And also, I don't know what, but something makes me like this book. Sadly, I have no critique-power left to be able to dissect it. (Perhaps it was dazzled by the golden halo around Zombie Fabio's head?) but, now I am going to have to buy the next book in this series.
Please god let it be available on Kindle because the thought of another one of these covers in my home is unimaginable.
P.S. The cover artist HAD to be a man, right? I'm not sexist, well ok a little. Just cannot believe any rational woman would create this monstrosity.
It's just damned embarrassing. Yep, I even hid it from the cleaning lady in a kitchen drawer under the cheese grater.
The book also has some serious problems on the plot logistics front. (She's only been in the military for five lousy years and she's already so famous the enemy flees at her name alone? Her commander lets her tool around in her military ship by herself, anywhere she wants, with no crew when she's on leave? Etc.) And the sex scenes have a 1980s-romance-novel-style hangover. Kind of florid without being specific. I had forgotten a scene could go on for so long with so many poetic star bursts but so few details. Glad we evolved. (I prefer just to go offstage pretty quickly or to use plainer language to say what's going on.) Happily though this is not a bangathon because lots of action/adventure in the plot to move onto next, yay!
There's some nice piloting, a couple of tactical maneuvers that would fit in nicely with a regular, non-romance SF military novel.
And also, I don't know what, but something makes me like this book. Sadly, I have no critique-power left to be able to dissect it. (Perhaps it was dazzled by the golden halo around Zombie Fabio's head?) but, now I am going to have to buy the next book in this series.
Please god let it be available on Kindle because the thought of another one of these covers in my home is unimaginable.
P.S. The cover artist HAD to be a man, right? I'm not sexist, well ok a little. Just cannot believe any rational woman would create this monstrosity.