Which one to pick? There were so many!
So finally I decided on A Plain Jane by Odette C. Bell.
The book is about plain Jane - who constantly laments about being boring, ordinary and just being simply plain. The story is set on Earth well into the future, but from the book it is not clear how far into the future. There is all sorts of technological do-hickeys available, which are presently not available. So it is safe to say that the story must be quite a few hundred, maybe even thousand, years into the future, where the technology is very advanced. There are Star Trek sized spaceships, aliens of all colours and sizes and best of all there are in-built bio suits which enhance human capabilities.
As in all good action/romance stories there is also the tall and extremely handsome super-hero, Lucas Stone, who is of course equipped with the latest bio technological weapons and armour and happens to be a galactic enforcement officer of the highest ranking. He is misunderstood, as all super-heroes are, but underneath the bravado is nothing but a genuine caring and extremely sensitive man.
The story doesn't go as far as mention a blossoming romance, but I can just feel it in my bones that there will be a romance in book 2, which is why I must have it!!!!
Needless to say the story is engrossing, once you get over the first 100 hundred pages, which just keeps going on and on and on about how plain and ordinary Jane is. The redeeming feature of this book is that you just know that it will eventually get to what the author is trying to tell and unfortunately, you just cannot put the book down, deep down you know it's going to be good. So once you've waded through the bad grammar and the enormous amount of spelling errors there is quite an interesting story line.
I think this book would peek the interest of anybody who is into sci-fi books. The take off is a bit slow, but once you're there it's full action, with a side of romance thrown in - I'm hoping in book 2.
The twist at the end is heart wrenching and is another reason why I want 'book 2' today! In fact I'm so hooked that I am contemplating downloading it at a cost of $3.99 from iTunes. That's the only place I found it available for Australians, as this author is self-published. The other place it's available is on Barnes and Noble, but not for Australian residents - shame! If you're from the United States you shouldn't have a problem downloading Book 1 for free from Barnes and Noble or iTunes.
To me this is good story writing, where you hook the reader in and keep them so interested that they just have to run out and get the second, third, forth or whatever number of books in the series and just keep reading. It must be good, especially if the reader continues to read after the amount of grammatical and spelling errors. Those things you can read around if the storyline is awesome. So get out there and get your reading glasses on as this is one book/story I'm definitely recommending.
Book 2 here I come!!!!
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