![]() ![]() ![]() It sets up a situation that drives the rest of the story, but it just didn’t seem believable. Early on, there’s a big plot twist, which the blurb describes as a “complication”, so I won’t spoil it with details, but the twist stretches credulity a little too far. There is however one major nit to pick with the plot. It’s a very interesting setup and on the whole it drives the plot very well. There are too many science fiction stories set on rough-and-tumble remote mining colonies for it not to have been thought of before, but this is the first book I can remember reading with that plot. I doubt the idea of mail order brides in the future is a new one. It’s a lonely life, and when he spots Gael on a companion site, he decides to contract the younger man. ![]() On the other side of the galaxy, Bram is a miner turned farmer eking out a living on a barely habitable planet. Then a friend suggests that Gael is still young and good looking enough to qualify as a “mail order bride”. Gael desperately wants to escape, especially after he has botched the latest assignment for the crime family that keeps him perpetually in their debt. It’s an underworld ruled by crime families where life is cheap. He has lived all his live deep in the bowels of a huge city, so deep that even sunlight doesn’t penetrate. ![]()
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