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Shielder — A New Science Fiction Romance (2014)

by Catherine Spangler(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Smashwords Edition

series

Shielder

review 1: *spoilers*Good book, except for the epilogue which just really annoyed me. Nessa still trying to get her parents and peoples approval, when she should have realised that she never needed it in the first place.And how is it a happy ending that after saving their race her parents are willing to accept her, after abandoning her when she was 12 for TEN YEARS! It would have been better if they had tried to acknowledge her and Nessa had just been like screw you, you wanted me dead! (They did, at one point she thinks how only her brother saved her from being killed.) Oh and dont get me started on the forced sterilisation! A better ending would have been her fixing that or just being happy somewhere else.Anyways my other issues were I wanted to know more about the controllers, and... more also why Nessa's epilepsy and injured leg meant she was ostracised from her society in such a brutal way.
review 2: Nessa, an outcast in her shielder colony due to physical impairment and a seizure disorder volunteers to be a live carrier of a deadly virus off world in hopes that a vaccination can be created. After her derelict shuttle breaks down in the middle of outer space she is picked up by shadower Chase McNight. Using the cover as a religious pilgrim, she begs Chase to take her so she can make a very important ceremony on time. While Chase agrees, he has his own agenda and after several delays, Nessa is desperate to reach her final destination before the Orana virus goes live. Nessa therefore must struggle between trying to survive the virus and her growing attraction toward Chase.I enjoyed this book for several reasons. For the most part the writing was well done which made it a quick read. And I just love a tragic heroine who struggles against an impossible deadline. I also am a sucker for the big strong just as tragic hero who has a shadowy past that is only overcome by some really good loving. One of the few fatal flaws here was the insistence to call Nessa an innocent woman-child. At the age of 22, it’s hard to consider a full grown adult a woman-child; even if she is petite. Small-bones just doesn’t make someone a child or even child-like. And while she is innocent in the ways of men, she is not innocent in the way of life. For someone who had become outcast at the age of 12, and had to struggle just to survive on her own, there is no way to remain so completely unworldly.I therefore give this book 3.5 stars. It would have been a 4 or 4.5 without the mention of the “woman-child” less

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