Patricia Waddell
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A Gentleman's Bargain von Patricia Waddell
lite romance, woman pretends to be wealthy man's finance, they fall in love and marry
Danna and Cullon are assigned the task of finding out who is responsible for an explosion of a Korcian spacecraft that killed 46 crew members. They must find the perpetrators quickly in order to avoid an intergalactic war.
I was fascinated by Danna's psychometric abilities that allowed her to read the emotions of a person by touching an object that they had touched. Cullon was a very alpha male and was much less interesting to me. I find it very strange that so many futuristic/s.f. books have such uber-alpha males and rather weak females. Why is that? It seems as if the H/H from a medieval romance are dropped into a futuristic. Which is very discouraging to a feminist such as I am. It's so disappointing to read a book set say 500 years from now that features characters like those in an older medieval bodice ripper. I see this time after time in lots of futuristics. But not always, sometimes there are some really kickass heroines in them.
The zero gravity sex was very fun and the mystery detective work was pretty good, overshadowing the romance somewhat but still very enjoyable. (Grade: B)… (mehr)
I was fascinated by Danna's psychometric abilities that allowed her to read the emotions of a person by touching an object that they had touched. Cullon was a very alpha male and was much less interesting to me. I find it very strange that so many futuristic/s.f. books have such uber-alpha males and rather weak females. Why is that? It seems as if the H/H from a medieval romance are dropped into a futuristic. Which is very discouraging to a feminist such as I am. It's so disappointing to read a book set say 500 years from now that features characters like those in an older medieval bodice ripper. I see this time after time in lots of futuristics. But not always, sometimes there are some really kickass heroines in them.
The zero gravity sex was very fun and the mystery detective work was pretty good, overshadowing the romance somewhat but still very enjoyable. (Grade: B)… (mehr)
Also unreadable. Stock characters, stock setting, stock plot. I read the first 40 pages skimmed another 30, then read the last three chapters.
I may be wrong, but I don't think there was another woman besides the heroine in the entire book. At least not one that spoke- on page 50 there was a woman on the street whose purpose was to find the hero attractive and to be dismissed by him without a word spoken between them. And there was a flashback to the mother of one of the male characters.
I may be wrong, but I don't think there was another woman besides the heroine in the entire book. At least not one that spoke- on page 50 there was a woman on the street whose purpose was to find the hero attractive and to be dismissed by him without a word spoken between them. And there was a flashback to the mother of one of the male characters.
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