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Hot Cargo (2009)

by Nicki Bennett(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1935192507 (ISBN13: 9781935192503)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

Healing

review 1: Okay plot with a sweet, slightly angsty romance and quite a bit of sexWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 8/10PROS: - Hot sex scenes (although the first couple are just a touch too coercive for me), including one particularly interesting one that takes place in zero gravity.- I like the fact that some of the characters are mated with creatures who are of different species, especially Peter’s human friend Ryan and his bird-like mate, Juo.- Just enough angst to make the characters’ reunion sweet, but not enough to depress me while I was reading it.- Perfectly happy and settled ending. This is one in which every last detail is wrapped up (some of them a bit cursorily, it’s true, but still…) and the characters are blissfully h... moreappy and have a glorious future ahead of them.CONS:- POV that constantly switches from one character’s perspective to another’s. The writing style here is very similar to Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux’s writing: paragraph 1 is told from character A’s point of view, paragraph 2 is from B’s, paragraph 3 is back to A (or on to C, in some instances), etc. It’s quite confusing at times, because you’re unsure whether you’re reading character B’s thoughts or a perception of character B from A’s head.- Numerous comparisons of feelings and common situations to sci-fi stuff that don’t mean a lot when you don’t know what the sci-fi references mean. Examples: “…stronger than the storms on Lambda Ophiuchi…”, “…like the twin suns of Gamma Cephei…”, “…as dry as the moons of Cerberus…” Sure, these give the book a decidedly sci-fi feel, but each time I encountered one of these comparisons, I thought something along these lines: “Exactly how dry ARE the moons of Cerberus?”- Decent plot, but it fizzles out near the book’s end as the story’s focus shifts to the characters’ relationship. (The plot IS resolved, albeit offscreen.)Overall comments: I enjoyed this quite a bit. The relationship moves gradually from dislike to enjoyment/friendship to love, and the plot isn’t fantastic, but it’s pretty good. There’s a lot of sex--probably a scene in just about every chapter--and it’s graphic, so if you want erotica, this is a good choice; if you don’t, you might find the frequency of sex scenes distracting.
review 2: I really liked this book, though it started off written in an unusual style. Each paragraph switches to the other character's POV. It took a little getting used to, but it turned out to be a very effective storytelling style to get the feelings of the two men during the events happening. I especially like it when I realized it had been done on purpose. Each chapter was a sexual vignette and you were given hints to the great story arc that didn't really get going until about half way through, but the sex was well written and enjoyable to read. In addition, it showed the evolution of both characters' interest in the other. The hints all tied together to the greater arc, which exploded at the halfway point and sucked me in until the last page. Well worth the read. less

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