Category: Sci-Fi

Review: You Knew the Price by Susan Kaye Quinn

You Knew the Price (Nothing is Promised #2) by Susan Kaye Quinn My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction/ Hopepunk Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: The choice you make is the future you create. Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it’s Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray’s job to keep the clean-energy grid running. Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, her Aunties Cora […]

Posted February 18, 2021 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn

When You Had Power (Nothing is Promised #1) by Susan Kaye Quinn My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction/ Hopepunk Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues. Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying […]

Posted November 24, 2020 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 0 Comments

Review: End Game by Lindsay Buroker

End Game (Fallen Empire #8) by Lindsay Buroker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Alisa Marchenko has reunited with her daughter, and even though she hasn’t figured out how to get Jelena to accept Leonidas yet, she dreams of the three of them starting a new life together. They can return the Star Nomad to its original purpose of running freight and staying out of trouble (mostly). Before that can happen, Alisa must fulfill the promise she made to Jelena: that she and her crew will retrieve young Prince Thorian, the […]

Posted July 28, 2020 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: Perilous Hunt by Lindsay Buroker

Perilous Hunt (Fallen Empire #7) by Lindsay Buroker My Rating: Genre: Science Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: After failing to catch up with her daughter Jelena so many times, Alisa’s optimism is battered, but her determination has never waned. She, Leonidas, and their eclectic crew are hunting down a Starseer research station in the heart of the Kir Asteroid belt—Jelena’s supposed location. Alisa vows that she will find her daughter if she has to search a million asteroids to do so. But Jelena and her close friend, Prince Thorian, have attracted the interest of many factions, […]

Posted July 8, 2020 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: Stolen Flyght by S.J. Pajonas

Stolen Flyght (The Flyght Series #6) by S.J. Pajonas My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Reverse Harem Blurb: One last mission to secure her birthright. A frozen world and a sinister conspiracy that may cost her land… and her life. Vivian will do whatever it takes to finally be victorious in the battle for her family farm. So when her benefactor insists she infiltrate a hostile military base on a treacherous ice planet, she has no choice but to agree. But when two of her crew are apprehended during the operation, her […]

Posted June 19, 2020 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 6 Comments

Review: Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutski

Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy #1) by Emily Skrutskie Narrated by James Fouhey My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend–the man he trusts most and might even love–only to learn that he’s secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian Nassun’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he’s met […]

Posted June 17, 2020 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 6 Comments

Review: The Last Warrior by Susan Grant

The Last Warrior (Lost Colony #1) by Susan Grant My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Fantasy Romance/ Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: The Last Warrior (lightly updated) is available now – with a gorgeous new cover. A general betrayed by his king… A royal tutor playing a dangerous game… Prism Award Winner As a decorated warrior, General Tal knows only one kind of honor—to his people. But when his king turns on him, he discovers that his sacrifices, his successes, may not have been for the good of the country at all. His only safe […]

Posted May 20, 2020 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 2 Comments