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jaceyBought as an e-book, this turned out to be closer to a long short story or perhaps novella length (difficult to judge when reading it on Kindle), but it was just what I needed after taking almost a month to read the last two of Sherwood Smith's Inda novels, i.e. light and slight with just enough bite to keep me turning pages. It's basically a science fiction romance. The families who rule this world are 'kinsmen' originally biologically enhanced and now denying kinsman genes to outsiders by marrying only within the families.
Meli' Galdes' life was crushed when she was rejected by her (arranged marriage) fiancé. She officially renounced her kinsman family, disappearing into the shadows and developing her lethal skills as an assassin to kill for them. Now she's earned the right to retire, but they have one final job for her, and this time the target is her former fiancé. Celino Carvanna took his freedom from his hateful arranged marriage and ran with it, becoming a razor-sharp financial predator and guiding the family fortune ever upwards. His success more than threatens the Galdes family with insolvency. He's cruel, hard and sharp with a coterie of bodyguards and his own phenomenal talent with a blade. No normal assassin could get close, but Meli knows how to get to her target. She plans to make him fall in love with her, then reject him, before killing him. Predictably it doesn't go according to plan.
Yes the ending was flagged up a mile away, and no, it didn't matter. This is a pleasant bit of froth. Soft futuristic SF, sex, romance and assassination. What's not to like for £1.39 on my Kindle?
Meli' Galdes' life was crushed when she was rejected by her (arranged marriage) fiancé. She officially renounced her kinsman family, disappearing into the shadows and developing her lethal skills as an assassin to kill for them. Now she's earned the right to retire, but they have one final job for her, and this time the target is her former fiancé. Celino Carvanna took his freedom from his hateful arranged marriage and ran with it, becoming a razor-sharp financial predator and guiding the family fortune ever upwards. His success more than threatens the Galdes family with insolvency. He's cruel, hard and sharp with a coterie of bodyguards and his own phenomenal talent with a blade. No normal assassin could get close, but Meli knows how to get to her target. She plans to make him fall in love with her, then reject him, before killing him. Predictably it doesn't go according to plan.
Yes the ending was flagged up a mile away, and no, it didn't matter. This is a pleasant bit of froth. Soft futuristic SF, sex, romance and assassination. What's not to like for £1.39 on my Kindle?
