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Scout Captain Tyla Venture was consumed by one desire: revenge against the Klik's for destroying her ship and killing half her crew. She doesn't have time for love or romance. Just vengeance.
As the only captain to ever survive a Klik attack she was lauded in the Fleet, but she still has a score to settle with the mysterious aliens who've been vexing humanity's expansion into the stars for hundreds of years. So she's on an ongoing mission to seek out Klik life and Klik civilization and destroy it.
Only the intrepid captain has two problems. The first is the Kliks are notoriously hard to find. The second is she gets herself captured by her enemies the moment she actually figures out a way to track them. Oops.
Captured and given over to Klik scientists for observation and experimentation, she meets another female human captive who's been in their captivity for six months or a hundred years depending on how you reckon relativistic space travel at near-light speeds. And her new companion is igniting feelings that she's denied for so long. Feelings that are strangely compelling.
Love is the last thing she was expecting to find on an enemy battlecruiser, particularly love with another woman, but it couldn't hurt to take a quick break from vengeance to explore these strange new feelings, to seek out new fun and new experiences, to boldly go where she's never gone before with another woman...
As the only captain to ever survive a Klik attack she was lauded in the Fleet, but she still has a score to settle with the mysterious aliens who've been vexing humanity's expansion into the stars for hundreds of years. So she's on an ongoing mission to seek out Klik life and Klik civilization and destroy it.
Only the intrepid captain has two problems. The first is the Kliks are notoriously hard to find. The second is she gets herself captured by her enemies the moment she actually figures out a way to track them. Oops.
Captured and given over to Klik scientists for observation and experimentation, she meets another female human captive who's been in their captivity for six months or a hundred years depending on how you reckon relativistic space travel at near-light speeds. And her new companion is igniting feelings that she's denied for so long. Feelings that are strangely compelling.
Love is the last thing she was expecting to find on an enemy battlecruiser, particularly love with another woman, but it couldn't hurt to take a quick break from vengeance to explore these strange new feelings, to seek out new fun and new experiences, to boldly go where she's never gone before with another woman...
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First published February 9, 2015
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August 6, 2015
This story was dumber than a box of hair.
Captain Tyla is desperate for revenge. Her last ship was blown to pieces around her by a mysterious alien race; as the only human survivor ever rescued she is now out for their blood. Taking her heavily armed scout ship out into the black, she is nonetheless immediately captured. Handed over to the local science officer for experimentation, she is literally locked in a room with another human hottie.
Look, this book is stupid. Just accept that now and life will be easier for you. Nothing hangs together. Nothing is internally consistent. First we told the aliens don't leave any human survivors and they are a complete mystery. But wait, later the author tells us that even though there have been no human survivors from these encounters, and the aliens never get beaten, somehow humans have found alien bodies floating in space. ((Space is fucking massive. I don't think the author has quite grasped how massive.)) That thing we told you before, about knowing nothing about the aliens? We just forgot to mention those bodies. But wait, actually later the author decides that humans have captured some of these aliens... somehow... which explains how Tyla later speaks fluent alien.
Okay; fine, awesome. But that makes no sense. Tyla goes onto the alien ship and makes a big deal out of finding out all this new information about the aliens. It's treated like she's a genius with the keys to winning the war, and her thinking is somehow totally new and very exciting. But... but this stuff is really basic. This is like... 101 level stuff. "What does your ship look like? How do its engines work? What kind of weaponry do you have?" If you've got captive aliens and you know enough about them to have learned their language, then why didn't you just ask them this stuff? Forget having alien captives, no intelligence officer would miss the kind of obvious revelations Tyla treats like extraordinary information. Even the lack of information would tell you these things. The alien strategy is so basic it is literally the go-to strategy for every asymmetrical conflict ever waged - sit in a dark spot and leap out when the enemy's back is turned. We're supposed to believe this conflict has gone on for a hundred years with no one putting this pattern together? Humanity deserves to die out, because the space radiation has pickled our collective brains.
I honestly couldn't tell if this book was trolling me with how poorly thought-out it was; I eventually decided its tone of self-satisfaction felt entirely too sincere for the whole thing to be a painful joke.
The ham-fisted attempts to make a glittering military genius-hero out of Tyla was exhausting. She is grossly incompetent. She loses both her two ships. She is captured and disarmed, which is presented as somehow her choice. She violates the laws of war. ((For the author's personal information. The enemy violating the laws of war does not absolve other combatants from obeying those same rules. The alien surrender, and Tyla's subsequent smug destruction of them, is a blatant and abhorrent war crime. Congratulations - your "hero" stopped being the designated hero and achieved completely loathsome instead. So that's something.))
But all of this is beside the point. This book is supposed to be about Tyla meeting the hot blonde lady inside the alien observation tank. I have a few questions; why didn't Tyla ever ask hot blondie's name? Asking her name is basic fucking courtesy, especially before courtesy fucking. In fact they hardly talk at all. Blondie's been stuck in a alien tank for at what she thinks is six months - you'd think she'd be keen for some light conversation. Also; why did Tyla not think to herself "oh, the ship she was on was lost a hundred years ago - better be gentle when breaking the news that everyone she knew and loved is now dead." ((FYI Tyla never breaks that news deliberately at all - instead she says it in passing during and off-hand remark and the nameless lady reacts with a kind of "huh, that's interesting.")) The sex is kinda awkward. I never lost the perspective that they were "doing the do" in order to prevent Tyla being taken away and murdered by the aliens. (Actually, the menfolk dragged away because they refused to force nameless lady into sex came off way better than Tyla did.) The whole thing just wasn't sexy. There was coercion there. Even worse when it turned out to be childishly simple to escape - even the guards who Tyla had been so worried about simply melted away in front of her after she actually decided to leave. So... so was the sex actually needed then? Is that creepy?
Gosh, this novel. This novel had so many problems. So many - and the worst thing is I think that the author didn't notice a single one of them. It feels unironic. It feels like it is supposed to be this swashbuckling adventure in space. It would have worked if Tyla was vulnerable. Forget having alien captives and her speaking their language, forget her learning anything about them, forget them trying to communicate. Forget her having escaped from them before. Just make her a frightened, trapped scout-captain pushed into a terrible situation. Then get her it out of it again with her wits and luck.
Until the author learns to proof-read, I wouldn't read this book.
Captain Tyla is desperate for revenge. Her last ship was blown to pieces around her by a mysterious alien race; as the only human survivor ever rescued she is now out for their blood. Taking her heavily armed scout ship out into the black, she is nonetheless immediately captured. Handed over to the local science officer for experimentation, she is literally locked in a room with another human hottie.
Look, this book is stupid. Just accept that now and life will be easier for you. Nothing hangs together. Nothing is internally consistent. First we told the aliens don't leave any human survivors and they are a complete mystery. But wait, later the author tells us that even though there have been no human survivors from these encounters, and the aliens never get beaten, somehow humans have found alien bodies floating in space. ((Space is fucking massive. I don't think the author has quite grasped how massive.)) That thing we told you before, about knowing nothing about the aliens? We just forgot to mention those bodies. But wait, actually later the author decides that humans have captured some of these aliens... somehow... which explains how Tyla later speaks fluent alien.
Okay; fine, awesome. But that makes no sense. Tyla goes onto the alien ship and makes a big deal out of finding out all this new information about the aliens. It's treated like she's a genius with the keys to winning the war, and her thinking is somehow totally new and very exciting. But... but this stuff is really basic. This is like... 101 level stuff. "What does your ship look like? How do its engines work? What kind of weaponry do you have?" If you've got captive aliens and you know enough about them to have learned their language, then why didn't you just ask them this stuff? Forget having alien captives, no intelligence officer would miss the kind of obvious revelations Tyla treats like extraordinary information. Even the lack of information would tell you these things. The alien strategy is so basic it is literally the go-to strategy for every asymmetrical conflict ever waged - sit in a dark spot and leap out when the enemy's back is turned. We're supposed to believe this conflict has gone on for a hundred years with no one putting this pattern together? Humanity deserves to die out, because the space radiation has pickled our collective brains.
I honestly couldn't tell if this book was trolling me with how poorly thought-out it was; I eventually decided its tone of self-satisfaction felt entirely too sincere for the whole thing to be a painful joke.
The ham-fisted attempts to make a glittering military genius-hero out of Tyla was exhausting. She is grossly incompetent. She loses both her two ships. She is captured and disarmed, which is presented as somehow her choice. She violates the laws of war. ((For the author's personal information. The enemy violating the laws of war does not absolve other combatants from obeying those same rules. The alien surrender, and Tyla's subsequent smug destruction of them, is a blatant and abhorrent war crime. Congratulations - your "hero" stopped being the designated hero and achieved completely loathsome instead. So that's something.))
But all of this is beside the point. This book is supposed to be about Tyla meeting the hot blonde lady inside the alien observation tank. I have a few questions; why didn't Tyla ever ask hot blondie's name? Asking her name is basic fucking courtesy, especially before courtesy fucking. In fact they hardly talk at all. Blondie's been stuck in a alien tank for at what she thinks is six months - you'd think she'd be keen for some light conversation. Also; why did Tyla not think to herself "oh, the ship she was on was lost a hundred years ago - better be gentle when breaking the news that everyone she knew and loved is now dead." ((FYI Tyla never breaks that news deliberately at all - instead she says it in passing during and off-hand remark and the nameless lady reacts with a kind of "huh, that's interesting.")) The sex is kinda awkward. I never lost the perspective that they were "doing the do" in order to prevent Tyla being taken away and murdered by the aliens. (Actually, the menfolk dragged away because they refused to force nameless lady into sex came off way better than Tyla did.) The whole thing just wasn't sexy. There was coercion there. Even worse when it turned out to be childishly simple to escape - even the guards who Tyla had been so worried about simply melted away in front of her after she actually decided to leave. So... so was the sex actually needed then? Is that creepy?
Gosh, this novel. This novel had so many problems. So many - and the worst thing is I think that the author didn't notice a single one of them. It feels unironic. It feels like it is supposed to be this swashbuckling adventure in space. It would have worked if Tyla was vulnerable. Forget having alien captives and her speaking their language, forget her learning anything about them, forget them trying to communicate. Forget her having escaped from them before. Just make her a frightened, trapped scout-captain pushed into a terrible situation. Then get her it out of it again with her wits and luck.
Until the author learns to proof-read, I wouldn't read this book.
May 10, 2015
I liked the premise and the love scene was hot but the ending was rushed and it seemed less than believable that Tyla didn't learn the other girl's name. would have been better if it had been more fleshed out and a bit longer. appreciated that neither Tyla nor the "angel" were wilting flowers however.
October 14, 2016
That was a short one.
She came, saw, got caught, fucked the girl and killed the aliens. And all in just a few pages.
She came, saw, got caught, fucked the girl and killed the aliens. And all in just a few pages.
June 30, 2020
Overall ok
I have this story an average rating because it was an ok book but not that much eroticism. Basically, a standard story. The beginning was slow. But the end was good. Others might like this story.
I have this story an average rating because it was an ok book but not that much eroticism. Basically, a standard story. The beginning was slow. But the end was good. Others might like this story.
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