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1.0 out of 5 stars
save your money, November 8, 2009
This review is from: Electra Galaxy's Mr. Interstellar Feller (Love Spell) (Mass Market Paperback)
I wish PBB's review was here when I ordered this book and I could have saved my money. What was suppose to be a lighthearted futuristic romance with laughs was anything but.
Sagan Carter, an Earth policewoman, meets up with Captain Keir Trask, an Oceanun, and together they are suppose to thwart an intergalactic weapons plot in L.A. that could potentially kill thousands from throughout the galaxy. Within a week they clash because of their dominant personalities but still pine for each other. The weapons plot is passed back and forth throughout the story and the romance is weak and unbelievable between Sagan and Keir. There are hidden lies and Keir cannot even trust his best friend and second-in-command even though they have known and worked with each other for years.
I figured out who the No. 1 Baddie was long before it was revealed and, yes, there is unnecessary meanness and spite which doesn't help the storyline. If anything it diminished it. All over a sad excuse for romance, mystery, and humor. Save your money, you've been warned.
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239 of 255 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Uninteresting and mean spirited. BAD., October 31, 2009
This review is from: Electra Galaxy's Mr. Interstellar Feller (Love Spell) (Mass Market Paperback)
I bought this book because I thought it would be fun and have a unique twist. It wasn't and didn't. The plot was very predictable and the characters routine and the contest a Mr. Universe type with talent added. The only unique thing about the guy was he was 7 foot tall and light green who turned dark green when he got upset - which supposedly he never did because he was so controlled. Ha! He kept turning green every 50 pages it seemed. That was it. That was the big alien difference. And the book was mean spirited. During the pageant one contestant was very thin, but although for his planet he was "considered at the height of fashion." His posing thong fell down in the pose-off (and why didn't Sams explain how this stuff works for her readers who don't know the world of this type of contest?) and then he tripped trying to get off stage and had to half crawl off. "What was visible before he disappeared wasn't worth mentioning; the Pleidian's package wasn't nothing to write home about." Everyone laughed. The next contestant was heavy and again, the end result was the being's humiliation and laughter. So in this book we laugh at fat guys and thin guys. Sheesh. And, if the contest was really about "Mr. Interstellar," then why wasn't there anything out of the ordinary for the contestants to do? But the worst of this book was the villain. He cuts out one of his testicles with a dirty knife and it becomes septic. Does this make you gag? It did me and then he goes around ill and psychotic for most of the book. This is a galaxy civilization and they don't know about antibiotics and sterile procedures? Right. Nothing in this book was fun, light hearted or a scientific fantasy. Bad, bad, bad. I will not be reading any more of Sams.
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162 of 176 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A miss., December 15, 2009
This review is from: Electra Galaxy's Mr. Interstellar Feller (Love Spell) (Mass Market Paperback)
As a rule, I force myself to read at least half a book, no matter how terrible it is. I must say, this was most certainly the worst half a book I ever read. There were problems with sentence structure, diction, plot development, and sadly much more. I guess anyone can publish a book now if they have a little money, but that doesn't mean they should.
I would not recommend wasting money on this book; if you are the type of person who likes to stop and look at train wrecks, then see if the library has a copy. If not, spare yourself.
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