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Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Space empire ruled by royal telepaths something opposing empire of evil sexual sadists something soulbond something something boring space battles.



I don’t object to getting some romance in my scifi (or even some scifi in my romance, sometimes). It just helps if one or the other is, uh . . . good. This is terrible, amateurish scifi full of narcolepsy-inducing descriptions of how every stupid little piece of technology works. And it’s also a cardboard romance where all the actual authorial work and interesting character development is bypassed in favor of an instantaneous soulbond. So much easier, you know, when you can skip all the getting to know you, all the building attraction, the growing reader investment, all the self-discovery and important choices to be made, and instead stick in a few paragraphs about how their minds melded, amiright?



Vague gesture at bonus points for attempting to deal with post rape trauma, but just . . . no. This isn't even funny bad.





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