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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I remember really loving O'Shea's 1st Jarvid Nine book. Not sure I ever read the other two, but wowzer! the difference in score between books 2 and 3 is quite severe! What made the 3rd one so bad??  |
It's a short novella. It takes place over an afternoon (mostly, if you don't count the 40 years the heroine time-travels into the future). It wasn't the time-travel or the quasi-HFN that bothered me. It was the total lack of resolution.
WARNING: don't read if you want to remain spoiler-free. Spoiler:
Alex, who is the secondary hero in both
Ravyn’s Flight and
Eternal Nights is in charge of the base (or maybe just base security, I forget). Anyway, when the heroine appeared in the pyramid they assume she's a spy. The hero is ordered to keep an eye on her and seduce her if needed, though Alex makes it clear he's not on board with that order. The hero tells the heroine all this. It made for a good built-in conflict. That's fine.
But then the author did NOTHING to resolve the issue. The hero talks the heroine into staying in the future rather than returning to her time. She reminds him TPTB think she's a spy (at this point the Western Alliance is in a new massive war, so the spy thing is serious). And the hero says they'll think of something. The end.
According to the author's
blog she had planned to write more in the series. But the post is from back in 2013, so I'm not holding my breath.
I loved the characters in the first book, but had issues with the plot resolution. (I read it in 2014 and gave it a B+). Not sure why I let the second book languish in my TBR for so long, but I quite enjoyed it. The secondary couple from the first book had their storyarc resolved and the main couple from the first book also put in an appearance. But the main couple from book two are two new characters.
I read the third "book" knowing it was more of a short story (even calling it a novella is a stretch), but I still expected more of a complete story. It read more like a excerpt to me. YMMV. (it was originally published in the Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance but I bought the whole series individually at Kobo back in 2013).
Sorry for the rant. I'm still ticked off about it apparently
