Adria Rose
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Spacer's Cinderella di Adria Rose
Pretty decent sci fi romance. There was quite a bit of sci fi story involving her work and power plays in the academic community. The romance was believable. The hero wasn’t as developed as the heroine. The fact that he was a cyborg was totally underdeveloped. And it’s just me probably but after worlds have been saved and I love yours exchanged I don’t need an 11 page sex scene to finish up the book. Especially since they had consummated their relationship several times on page already.
Spacers Cinderella is about Aurora a young woman who is from poor space colony. She left her home to study at the more affluent planet and is now a teacher at the university. While out celebrating her friends promotion she meets Magnus Thorne ,a man from the genetically engineered and technically augmented upper class. They are both attracted to each other from their first meeting and later meets in the same night club.
I feel a bit bad for not giving this at least two stars because I have read some with worse writing but if you dnf a book...
One of my problems with this book was the insta-lust the heroine had for the hero. They were just talking and she gets turned on. I mean I just found it hard to relate to imagine wanting to lick a man I just met...no matter how attractive he is.
I also wanted to learn more about the world than I was getting.… (altro)
I feel a bit bad for not giving this at least two stars because I have read some with worse writing but if you dnf a book...
One of my problems with this book was the insta-lust the heroine had for the hero. They were just talking and she gets turned on. I mean I just found it hard to relate to imagine wanting to lick a man I just met...no matter how attractive he is.
I also wanted to learn more about the world than I was getting.… (altro)
This is one of those lust-at-first-sight romances, and when it opened that way, I almost stopped right there because I am not particularly fond of either love- or lust-at-first-sight dreck. But fortunately, there's a lot more in this book than that.
Yes, of course, this is a Cinderella retelling, and there is indeed a ball--and yes, the "prince" here does wind up saving the girl from poverty and abuse. But that's only a small part of the framework of the story. I haven't read any other Cinderella retellings where the girl is a Nobel caliber scientist (but still a struggling grad student), and truly interesting in her own right for that reason alone. This is also the first Cinderella retelling that features a faked data scandal, graduate students doing not-quite-legal things to save their advisor, a twisted immigration authority, and a planet whose atmosphere is gradually turning toxic. So there's quite an interesting mix of stuff here.
Aurora (the female protagonist) is an exceedingly smart terraforming scientist who just wants her work to go somewhere. (Later, we find there's more at stake here than just her own personal ambition.) Unfortunately, her research project and her entire team get caught up in university politics. And my oh my, politics at this university are nasty nasty nasty, *way* beyond anything I've heard of before. Someone is trying to undermine her success, and is willing to go to great lengths to do it. Sometimes we hear it said that "academic politics are the nastiest politics because the stakes are so low," but that certainly isn't true in this book.
One of the significant strengths of this book, in my opinion, is the way it presented the research. It's not so detailed that you either get lost or roll your eyes at what an unrealistic idea that is; but the author obviously knows a great deal and throws enough at you to make it intriguing. She feels like a bona fide terraforming scientist, and she really does seem like a brilliant scientist. The science *feels* real, or at least it did to me. I've read an awful lot of novels where the author claimed somebody was really smart, but the supposedly smart things they did were awfully unsophisticated. This author seems to be able to pull it off.
The male lead is interesting too, though a bit less so. He's a phenomenally successful scientist too, who's also hiding things for different reasons. He's an augmented human, which kind of comes in handy in the fight scenes in this book. (Again, a bit of a departure from the traditional Cinderella story.)
For me, the romantic story is not even the highlight of the book; I thought the progression of the friendship, and how Magnus and Aurora manage to pull off some of the things they do, were rather more interesting.… (altro)
Yes, of course, this is a Cinderella retelling, and there is indeed a ball--and yes, the "prince" here does wind up saving the girl from poverty and abuse. But that's only a small part of the framework of the story. I haven't read any other Cinderella retellings where the girl is a Nobel caliber scientist (but still a struggling grad student), and truly interesting in her own right for that reason alone. This is also the first Cinderella retelling that features a faked data scandal, graduate students doing not-quite-legal things to save their advisor, a twisted immigration authority, and a planet whose atmosphere is gradually turning toxic. So there's quite an interesting mix of stuff here.
Aurora (the female protagonist) is an exceedingly smart terraforming scientist who just wants her work to go somewhere. (Later, we find there's more at stake here than just her own personal ambition.) Unfortunately, her research project and her entire team get caught up in university politics. And my oh my, politics at this university are nasty nasty nasty, *way* beyond anything I've heard of before. Someone is trying to undermine her success, and is willing to go to great lengths to do it. Sometimes we hear it said that "academic politics are the nastiest politics because the stakes are so low," but that certainly isn't true in this book.
One of the significant strengths of this book, in my opinion, is the way it presented the research. It's not so detailed that you either get lost or roll your eyes at what an unrealistic idea that is; but the author obviously knows a great deal and throws enough at you to make it intriguing. She feels like a bona fide terraforming scientist, and she really does seem like a brilliant scientist. The science *feels* real, or at least it did to me. I've read an awful lot of novels where the author claimed somebody was really smart, but the supposedly smart things they did were awfully unsophisticated. This author seems to be able to pull it off.
The male lead is interesting too, though a bit less so. He's a phenomenally successful scientist too, who's also hiding things for different reasons. He's an augmented human, which kind of comes in handy in the fight scenes in this book. (Again, a bit of a departure from the traditional Cinderella story.)
For me, the romantic story is not even the highlight of the book; I thought the progression of the friendship, and how Magnus and Aurora manage to pull off some of the things they do, were rather more interesting.… (altro)
A different sort of Cinderella retelling.
This is one of those lust-at-first-sight romances, and when it opened that way, I almost stopped right there because I am not particularly fond of either love- or lust-at-first-sight dreck. But fortunately, there's a lot more in this book than that.
Yes, of course, this is a Cinderella retelling, and there is indeed a ball--and yes, the "prince" here does wind up saving the girl from poverty and abuse. But that's only a small part of the framework of the story. I haven't read any other Cinderella retellings where the girl is a Nobel caliber scientist (but still a struggling grad student), and truly interesting in her own right for that reason alone. This is also the first Cinderella retelling that features a faked data scandal, graduate students doing not-quite-legal things to save their advisor, a twisted immigration authority, and a planet whose atmosphere is gradually turning toxic. So there's quite an interesting mix of stuff here.
Aurora (the female protagonist) is an exceedingly smart terraforming scientist who just wants her work to go somewhere. (Later, we find there's more at stake here than just her own personal ambition.) Unfortunately, her research project and her entire team get caught up in university politics. And my oh my, politics at this university are nasty nasty nasty, *way* beyond anything I've heard of before. Someone is trying to undermine her success, and is willing to go to great lengths to do it. Sometimes we hear it said that "academic politics are the nastiest politics because the stakes are so low," but that certainly isn't true in this book.
One of the significant strengths of this book, in my opinion, is the way it presented the research. It's not so detailed that you either get lost or roll your eyes at what an unrealistic idea that is; but the author obviously knows a great deal and throws enough at you to make it intriguing. She feels like a bona fide terraforming scientist; the science *feels* real, or at least it did to me. I've read an awful lot of novels where the author claimed somebody was really smart, but the supposedly smart things they did were awfully unsophisticated. This author seems to be able to pull it off.
The male lead is interesting too, though a bit less so. He's a phenomenally successful scientist too, who's also hiding things for different reasons. He's an augmented human, which kind of comes in handy in the fight scenes in this book. (Again, a bit of a departure from the traditional Cinderella story.)
For me, the romantic story is not even the highlight of the book; I thought the progression of the friendship, and how Magnus and Aurora manage to pull off some of the things they do, were rather more interesting.… (altro)
This is one of those lust-at-first-sight romances, and when it opened that way, I almost stopped right there because I am not particularly fond of either love- or lust-at-first-sight dreck. But fortunately, there's a lot more in this book than that.
Yes, of course, this is a Cinderella retelling, and there is indeed a ball--and yes, the "prince" here does wind up saving the girl from poverty and abuse. But that's only a small part of the framework of the story. I haven't read any other Cinderella retellings where the girl is a Nobel caliber scientist (but still a struggling grad student), and truly interesting in her own right for that reason alone. This is also the first Cinderella retelling that features a faked data scandal, graduate students doing not-quite-legal things to save their advisor, a twisted immigration authority, and a planet whose atmosphere is gradually turning toxic. So there's quite an interesting mix of stuff here.
Aurora (the female protagonist) is an exceedingly smart terraforming scientist who just wants her work to go somewhere. (Later, we find there's more at stake here than just her own personal ambition.) Unfortunately, her research project and her entire team get caught up in university politics. And my oh my, politics at this university are nasty nasty nasty, *way* beyond anything I've heard of before. Someone is trying to undermine her success, and is willing to go to great lengths to do it. Sometimes we hear it said that "academic politics are the nastiest politics because the stakes are so low," but that certainly isn't true in this book.
One of the significant strengths of this book, in my opinion, is the way it presented the research. It's not so detailed that you either get lost or roll your eyes at what an unrealistic idea that is; but the author obviously knows a great deal and throws enough at you to make it intriguing. She feels like a bona fide terraforming scientist; the science *feels* real, or at least it did to me. I've read an awful lot of novels where the author claimed somebody was really smart, but the supposedly smart things they did were awfully unsophisticated. This author seems to be able to pull it off.
The male lead is interesting too, though a bit less so. He's a phenomenally successful scientist too, who's also hiding things for different reasons. He's an augmented human, which kind of comes in handy in the fight scenes in this book. (Again, a bit of a departure from the traditional Cinderella story.)
For me, the romantic story is not even the highlight of the book; I thought the progression of the friendship, and how Magnus and Aurora manage to pull off some of the things they do, were rather more interesting.… (altro)
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