kimberly_rose’s Reviews > Tian's Hero > Status Update

Well, I'm torn. Somewhere between one and four stars. So, maybe 2.75? Had its shiny moments. Very creative. NI for fully effective story-telling impact, but there's raw talent there.

Erm... Didn't he just crash land, get whipped, violently raped by object and penis, lose his in utero baby, and now, now he's giggling and having three-way sex with his lovers! That's not sexy or even interesting reading, that's scoffing disbelief and removal from world of story and feeling connected to characters.

Excited by and loved the "animal instinct" in L, his "mate runs, I must catch and make submit," but the whole scene, despite the explanation of T's calming influence, seems off. Too much joviality and easy dismissal, too fast changing the emotions. Also, how the holy hell is T moving around, even talking clearly, after all he's been through physically and emotionally?

0_o fuck. After THAT (extremely intense scene) torture and then the betrayal feeling that L's lol-healing would have caused to T, I had better not read about T being a-okay happy and trusting lickity split. And there had better be no counter-healing penis magic.

Language has amazingly plasticity! After the sharp jar of first reading R's dialect and then stumbling through his first couple of sentences, I discovered it was easy-peasy to understand his extremely different "English." In fact, his language is giving him a certain colourful flare.

The writing is slightly immature in that there is a lot of repeated phrases and annoying adjectives/nouns (the big man, the medic, the little man) but the pacing is fast enough and the characters compelling enough that I can ignore the underdeveloped pen. There's real yummy talent when you shake away the chaff.

What manner of creature is this L? He can reroute his own blood to specific paths in his brain with conscious choice? He can sense his mates with something like six km? He can miraculously heal a seriousnsaenough within several hours

What a peculiar, odd, unusual, fascinating, emotional, bizarre yet completely recognizable story....

And to top it all off, I barely understand the technical portion or the plotting (and the biological side of L) outside of the relationship dynamics, but I don't care: all I need to know is that they are in danger, their lives, and the lives of all the others on the ship are threatened in multiple ways.

Holy fucking fast-paced! For such a wading-through-sludge start, this book makes up for it and HOW. *pound pound pound*