A review by slc333
Escape From Zulaire by Veronica Scott

2.0

It had elements of a good sci-fi romance, with a hot special forces captain sent to extract our heroine from a planet before it erupts into war. Then being unable to gt out before hostilities erupt, travelling with a small band of survivors, discovery of conspiracy, a desperate journey, alien monks, magical alien artifacts and mind control. So why such a low rating you ask. Well the one thing this potentially rollicking space romance lacked was a decent believable chemistry between our hero and heroine. They met once when he comes to tell her she needs to leave. They have 1 dance and what amounts to a 15 min conversation by a lake before they are on the run for their live. Sure they were attracted to each other but that was it. Then our hero falls foul of a malaria like disease and is in a freaking COMA and our heroine is obsessed with saving him, she cannot lose him etc. It is ridiculous, she spends more time conversing with his sergeant both before he falls sick and the whole time they are trekking along with coma hero before the magical alien artifact wielded by the monks saves him. And her whole attitude with monks was irritating. Demanding they save her one true love that she met a few days ago and spoke to half a dozen times. The our hero wakes up, they have sex and declare their love for one another. I guess he fell in love with her while he was freaking unconscious. It was SO ridiculous that it detracted from what would otherwise have been a pretty awesome story because the action and adventures,and story around the war etc were all really good.