** spoiler alert ** This book is just plain ridiculous. Having sex while piloting a spacecraft and shooting aliens in a life-or-death situation? The fact that having sex while you're doing these things is supposed to make you a better pilot/gunner? And don't forget the 'I'm only raping you so we can save the world!' which is made even more ridiculous by the fact that the character being raped actually improves his marksmanship while he's being violated.

Reading the synopsis, I thought I'd stumbled upon an interesting sci-fi concept (and to the author's credit, I still think it's an interesting idea; I just don't think it was done well or believably in this particular story), but the whole thing reads like an excuse for the characters to get it on. None of the actual science made any sense to me and all the explanations and conflicts (not to mention the cookie-cutter antagonists) just felt like they were thrown in for the sole purpose of getting the main character to break down and finally submit. The romance never felt believable so when he does finally have consensual sex, it felt more like he had been manipulated into it, and I don't believe the happy ending either. ( )

Stupid app crashed and ate my review, so the short version: Chaz came off as whiney and annoying and his never-ending inner monologues felt like a way to add pages to the story and didn't seem authentic. It's a bad sign when instead of feeling sympathy for a character's struggle to accept his sexuality, you just want to tell him to get over it and deal. Ferron I actually liked and he was the only reason I kept on to the end. ( )

Broken Boundries by Evangeline Anderson is a bit of a weird one for me. There were definitely some bits that I liked, but lots of the book just drove me a little bat shit. I am willing to whip out my big ole suspension of disbelief undies for a good story, but unfortunately some of the world building and details of the ship flying were a little over the top. I liked some of the tension between the characters and the whole I don’t wanna be different thing, but the way some of the sexual stuff was dealt with and the non con just got on my goat. So, some good, some bad. Parts were definitely a guilty pleasure. Definitely an author I’ve enjoyed, but this one was just not my cuppa tea.
http://sharrow.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/shorts-11/ ( )

Argh, what military would do this really. Spend millions and then not protect? I hated all the stupidity of the gay bashing years in the future also. ( )