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Indlæser... Partners - Book One (udgave 2013)af Melissa Good
Værk informationPartners-Book One af Melissa Good
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After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations. Jess Drake is an agent for Interforce, a small and exclusive special forces organization that still possesses access to technology. Her job is to protect and serve the citizens of the American continent who are in conflict with those left on the European continent. The struggle for resources is brutal, and when a rogue agent nearly destroys everything, Interforce decides to trust no one. They send Jess a biologically-created agent who has been artificially devised and given knowledge using specialized brain programming techniques. Instead of the mindless automaton one might expect, Biological Alternative NM-Dev-1 proves to be human and attractive. Against all odds, Jess and the new agent are swept into a relationship neither expected. Can they survive in these strange circumstances? And will they even be able to stay alive in this bleak new world? Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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The head of Interforce suspects the organization still has a mole and requests that Jess be partnered anew with an experimental 'learning' bio-alt (think Terminator, but cuter) to suss out that mole. Jess vehemently objects at first, but eventually the bio-alt wins her over, not, as you might expect, with her cuteness, but with all her other talents. :) Of course, this being lesfic, the cuteness wasn't wasted either.
The first half of the book is quite the page-turner, as the book sets up the post-nuclear setting using Jess' past experiences. There is politicking, killings, attempted assassinations and whatnot. However, once Jess and Dev (the name of her bio-alt partner) are sent down to earth on a mission, things simmer down quite a bit. The alone-time is a perfect setup for the budding attraction. The author takes her time with this, as it should be. People who like their sci-fi detailed and their romances slow-burning will appreciate the pace at this point. I was mostly bored. I was expecting the author to explore the issue of 'slavery' of bio-alts more but it was just mentioned mostly in passing, as observations by Dev, who, despite being a bio-alt herself, doesn't seem to find anything wrong with the whole system. And neither does Jess. I'd like to think it's not because they didn't care but because they're just too busy exploring their surroundings (and each other, lol). Hopefully, this will be dealt with more in-depth in Book 2.
If you like your sci-fi more fast-paced and action oriented, I highly recommend instead [b:The Girls From Alcyone|13120464|The Girls From Alcyone (The Girls from Alcyone #1)|Cary Caffrey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327155584s/13120464.jpg|18295574]--Lots of action set pieces plus a sweet romance.
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