Heart of Iron

So I will try my best to be coherent, but I'm afraid that all might have left about three pages into this book.

First thing you need to know is that I'm now doing something I probably should have started eight years ago: using the preview function on Goodreads. (Or, that failing, the sample function on Amazon.) Hopefully this will keep me from starting a book to only realize by page sixteen that I want nothing at all to do with the book. (Like that last book I started.) Why this is important is because I previewed this book on Goodreads, hoping that I'd be somewhat interested in reading it so I could borrow it for my upcoming week. You see, I'm going to be very busy with work this next week and thought it would be nice to have a book downloaded to my phone that I could read at odd moments and while taking short breaks.

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Basically, what I'm saying, was this book was supposed to last me until at least Friday at noon time. I was not supposed to devour the first half of the preview, borrow the book and subsequently read almost half of it before the end of the day and finish it the next evening.

So, I love this book. I love this book in a way I haven't loved a book in...a very long time. (After last year, I thought I lost my book mojo. No book I read for the first time last year got a five star rating from me. None.) This book is so...so my type of book.

This is Ana's story, but it's told from four different perspectives and I loved each one. I never felt, oh, them again. They're each interesting characters and have movement. They don't just float around while one character carries everything.

There's a found family. Aboard a spaceship. (Yes, please.)

There's a lost princess who is brave and stubborn and so far out of her depth.

There is one of the absolute sweetest romances ever between said lost princess and a ‘metal' (android) who is having anomalous feelings. And glitches. And they might be the same thing.

There is a far-flung universe that we've barely scratched the surface of and there are so many more stories to tell. (I need more Viera Carnelian in my life.)

There is plot. And action. And things happening besides romance!

There is also a rather...complicated M/M romance (that totally has its sweet moments) and a solid, established F/F relationship between secondary characters.

I don't know how to tag racial diversity, (because it's IN SPACE) but there is that, too.

On one hand, I'm almost a little upset I didn't read this book when it was first released - because I know I would have loved it then, too - but now I get to read the sequel without having to wait for it to be released. So, yay!