Review: Finders Keepers

 

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Independent trader Trilby Elliot is making some not-quite-legal modifications to her starfreighter, when an unexpected visitor falls out of space. Literally. He’s crashed onto the uninhabited planet of Avanar in a crippled ’Sko fighter–the last place you’d expect to find a Zafharin military officer because the ’Sko and the Zafharin have been at war as long as Trilby can remember.

Rhis Vanur is your typically arrogant Zafharin. But to Trilby’s surprise, he doesn’t look down on her or her slapdash ship. Still, Trilby’s learned the hard way that even though she found Rhis, she can’t keep him. She’s just a low-budget jump jockey as far as men like him are concerned. She’s not falling for his offer to help…until Port Rumor reports her best friend missing and Trilby learns that the ’Sko are hunting both her and Rhis. Now they’re in it together for better, for worse–or till death blasts them to oblivion....

Genre: science fiction romance

Publication date: April 2005

Mature content: yes

Review: Finders Keepers is a stand-alone science fiction adventure/romance book, and a pretty good one at that. I'm not rating it with five stars just because I felt there was too much going back and forth between Rhis and Trilby, and most of it is caused by the fact that they are not honest with each other - not at the beginning (though they may have had valid concerns at that point), and not even when given almost every chance to do so. I also would have liked to have Rhis' particular genetic enhancements a bit better explained - we only hear about them almost at the end of the book, but there's little follow up.

 

 

 

Other than that, Finders Keepers is still a fun book and one that will keep you glued to the pages from beginning to end.

  

Happy readings,

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