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Bantam (2007), Mass Market Paperback, 544 pages
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Fiction. Romance. Science Fiction & Fantasy. HTML: It's Men In Black meets CSI:Miami! He's a Florida cop. She's an intergalactic zombie hunter. Saving Earth is the least of their problems... Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he'd seen it all. Then a mummified corpse and a room full of futuristic hardware sends Guardian Force commander Jorie Mikkalah into his life. Before the night's through, he's become her unofficial partner�??and official prisoner�??in a race to save the Earth. And that's only the start of his troubles. Jorie's mission is to stop a deadly infestation of bio-mechanical organisms from using Earth as a breeding ground. If she succeeds, she could save a world and win a captaincy. But she needs Theo's help, even if their unlikely partnership threatens to set off an intergalactic incident, and forces her to choose between a planet and a promotion�??and a man who's become far more important than she cares to admi… (more)
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LibraryThing member SelaCarsen
Loved it! Laughed out loud several times. Loved that the hero POV was prominently featured, as often the heroine is the main protagonist. The ending was a bit abrupt, hence only 4 stars.
LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he had seen it all. Then he ended up in a battle with a woman with slightly dodgy English and a monster she refers to as a Zombie. Then he discovers that because of what he's seen he's going to have to be relocated and his life as he knows it is
However she needs his help, they find themselves Zombie hunting without backup.
It's pretty predictable and not one of my favourites of hers. The character interaction was great fun and the relationships was a stronger part of the story than the plot. Interesting but not a keeper.
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over.However she needs his help, they find themselves Zombie hunting without backup.
It's pretty predictable and not one of my favourites of hers. The character interaction was great fun and the relationships was a stronger part of the story than the plot. Interesting but not a keeper.
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LibraryThing member flemmily
This book cleverly solves my problem with sci-fi tech lingo - the advanced technology comes to earth, and so all the poor earthlings need things explained in plain English. I loved Sinclair's little Star Trek jokes as well. The tone of this novel reminded me of Spider Robinson's Callahan series,
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only with romance instead of puns. Show Less
LibraryThing member SunnySD
Florida homicide detective Theo Petrakos is used to the wild and weird, but when a mummified corpse turns up and a ray-shooting alien blows up his car... Well, lets just say he's had more normal Christmases. But not all aliens are tentacled freaks, and the one tapped to clean up the tentacles is a
Not a bad book, but definitely not in the class of Sinclair's non-Earth based space adventures. Okay, but nothing special, in spite of the intriguing title.
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lot more appealing to the eye.Not a bad book, but definitely not in the class of Sinclair's non-Earth based space adventures. Okay, but nothing special, in spite of the intriguing title.
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Ugh. My least favorite Sinclair. The problem is, it starts off with this huge ridiculous logic fail - my suspension of disbelief snapped, and it took a good three-quarters of the book to get me back into the story. It ended up pretty well (ok, very convenient, but still - at least they thought
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about the problems before they all magically went away), and I quite like both Jorie and Theo. The matching backstories are, again, overly convenient. The problem scene is where...OK, she's a pilot. I can almost stretch to believing she could figure out a car (at least it's an automatic). But...she's never heard of traffic regulations? Leave aside that their agent-in-place has apparently told them about holiday lights but not traffic lights. She's used to driving (on the ground or in the air - in fact, it would be worse in the air) with no control on speed, no channels (lanes), no rules at all? And then she manages to drive this way, across half a city, _without_ bringing a long train of cops after her to the target location. Yeah, no. Sorry. It's a cute scene, that doesn't work if you think about it at _all_, and that is promptly ignored - she never drives again, she never seems to pay attention to Theo driving (figuring out traffic lights, maybe?). It could have been cleanly excised, and probably should have been. There are way too many coincidences, the overall plot makes no sense (to the characters either - they keep trying to figure out _why_ this should be happening, even once they know who). The romance runs on rails, the SF runs off them frequently. Not a favorite. Not terrible - I've read a lot worse, and I did enjoy many bits of it - but as I said above, my least favorite Sinclair. Show Less
LibraryThing member Skybalon
Decent romance/sci-fi mash-up. Pretty good plot and not too bad in not leaving too many holes.
LibraryThing member sennebec
Perfect combination of sexy romance and science fiction. Easy to slide into, easy to stay lost in the story until the end. Glad I have another of her books to read next week.
LibraryThing member lexilewords
For the record the red cover was the original design I believe for the book cover, but then Bantam went with the new redesign for all the books. I have the redesign cover and like it better. Well I like the gun on the red cover better, but I like the ship on the redesign. In case you didn't notice
I admit that when I see 'zombie' I want brain-eating undead (like Resident Evil). These weren't zombies in that sense, which as it turned out I was okay with. Jorie and Theo's relationship was, as usual, believable and tense. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the women in Linnea's books being the ones with 'powers' (for lack of a better word)?
I enjoyed the book because it was a Linnea Sinclair book and had all the necessary hallmarks to make it a good scifi read with romance tossed in. It isn't however, my favorite book and if it had been any other author I would have put the book down and not finished it. It wasn't unfortunately as attention-enthralling as her previous books I'd read and I blame myself for that because everytime I saw 'Earth' or 'Florida' I cringed. I like my scifi in outer space away from Earth. As far away as possible when possible.
Sorry for the late (lacklustre) review. Gabriel's Ghost and Shades of Dark will both be posted today. Hope's Folly will be posted tomorrow or Monday (depending on if my sister drags me into NYC for the teen author festival or not).
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I have a thing for ships and space stations (blame it on my love of Star Trek).I admit that when I see 'zombie' I want brain-eating undead (like Resident Evil). These weren't zombies in that sense, which as it turned out I was okay with. Jorie and Theo's relationship was, as usual, believable and tense. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the women in Linnea's books being the ones with 'powers' (for lack of a better word)?
I enjoyed the book because it was a Linnea Sinclair book and had all the necessary hallmarks to make it a good scifi read with romance tossed in. It isn't however, my favorite book and if it had been any other author I would have put the book down and not finished it. It wasn't unfortunately as attention-enthralling as her previous books I'd read and I blame myself for that because everytime I saw 'Earth' or 'Florida' I cringed. I like my scifi in outer space away from Earth. As far away as possible when possible.
Sorry for the late (lacklustre) review. Gabriel's Ghost and Shades of Dark will both be posted today. Hope's Folly will be posted tomorrow or Monday (depending on if my sister drags me into NYC for the teen author festival or not).
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