Calamity
Ratings7
Average rating3.1
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Ratings7
Average rating3.1
Winter's Orbit meets Ilona Andrews in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance. “Constance Fay...wildly combines heart-stirring romance with a high-stakes adventure in a wonderfully deep space odyssey. This passionate story is a heady mix of suspense, romance, and intrigue, all set within an intricate and intriguing new world!”--Rebecca Zanetti, New York Times bestselling author of You Can Hide The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She’s got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her crew together after their feckless captain ran off with the intern. But she’s drowning in debt and revolutionary new engine technology is about to make her beloved ship obsolete. Enter Arcadio Escajeda. Second child of the terrifying Escajeda Family, he’s the thorn in Temper’s side as they’re sent off on a scouting mission on the backwater desert planet of Herschel 2. They throw sparks every time they meet but Temper’s suspicions of his ulterior motives only serve to fuel the flames between them. Despite volcanic eruptions, secret cultists, and deadly galactic fighters, the greatest threat on this mission may be to Temper’s heart. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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2 primary booksUncharted Hearts is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Constance Fay.
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Fun and fluffy, nothing special. More romance than I like in my sci-fi, which is the point rather of Bramble, Tor's new romance imprint so perhaps that's on me and I shouldn't complain. Conceptually, I'm in favor of those two genres having a subgenre of thier own but this felt half-assed on both fronts: the world-building is generic, the sex scenes flat. It's not badly written and the pacing and plot are competent enough so its readable, but not memorable in any way. Also the cover is terrible; its monochromatically ugly and it does not reflect any scene in the book.
Thank you to Tor Books who were kind enough to send me this copy for review.
Entertaining space adventure with a snarky heroine, a found family space ship crew, and villains that are being very villainy. Better squint at some of the action bits.
The perfect book for the perfect moment in my life. I was in the mood for some science fiction, but not heavy science fiction and, of course, I prefer humorous science fiction. I mean, I could have read Hitchhiker AGAIN, but instead I went with Calamity because I liked the way the book felt in my hand when I pulled it from the library's shelf. True story. Temperance is a bad ass ship captain with a ragtag crew on a bucket of bolts (I know, I know). They have been hired by one of the top 5 families to scope out a remote planet for a new fuel called phydium. The problem, they have to take the super hot, super smart son with them to oversee security. Oh, darn. Think The Expanse (which also features several romances!) with a great sense of humor and scene after scene of kick butt action. I actually had to put the book down once or twice just to give myself a break. And I like Temperance and Arcadio together. The crew is amazing too. I can't wait for the second book, [b:Fiasco 195790808 Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts, #2) Constance Fay https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1705699196l/195790808.SY75.jpg 197724609].
