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Title: Read like a video game script
Review: Parts of this book were great fun but the plot read like a Tomb Raider wannabe with lots of bad SF movie clichés tossed in for camouflage. Ms Barry seems to be write well, she developes nice tension between her lead characters, but her story would have been more enjoyable if set in an original universe and if she had spent as much time developing the Sci-fi part of her plot as she did on the Romance.As a reader who enjoys a well done Sci-Fi romance novel nothing bothers me more than novels where the writer's experience with Sci-Fi seems limited to media franchise fiction and video games. I wish people who didn't "get" the Sci-Fi part of the equation would just stick to straight Romance and the ones who want to write media tie-ins would try for the media market.
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