Contact by Evelyn Vaughn
Oct. 26th, 2007 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI have a couple dozen Silhouette Bombshell books in my TBR. I *think* I've read at least one before (Something Phoenix? Phoenix Something?, maybe), but couldn't swear that was the case. I found a copy of Evelyn Vaughn's Contact on the library sale shelf; remembered hearing good things about it, so I bought it. Why read this one instead of any of the books in Mt. TBR? Why do I do anything? It was an act of random, capricious choice.
The verdict: it was okay. I liked the adventure of it, the suspense aspect. I was a little put off by the young age of the heroine (22) since heroine ages seem to be rising...or maybe that's just my imagination? Maybe they are only rising in my sample of reading materials. (Seems like the average heroine is 26-29 these days.) I felt like I was missing something the whole time I read though. And when the whole Athena Academy thing was brought in to explain the heroine's "powers"? Eh. Too little, too late. Not interested. Especially when it screams "series bait" to me. C+.
Contact was an early Bombshell, I'm pretty sure. And I can totally see why Harlequin readers were upset with this line. There is no HEA, per se. There's an implication or hint that a relationship may come, but nothing more. If I were a faithful Hqn category/line reader who picked the book up because it was something new from Hqn, relying on the Hqn reputation and it's standards in other category lines, I'd've been right irritated to get to the end and have no HEA.
The verdict: it was okay. I liked the adventure of it, the suspense aspect. I was a little put off by the young age of the heroine (22) since heroine ages seem to be rising...or maybe that's just my imagination? Maybe they are only rising in my sample of reading materials. (Seems like the average heroine is 26-29 these days.) I felt like I was missing something the whole time I read though. And when the whole Athena Academy thing was brought in to explain the heroine's "powers"? Eh. Too little, too late. Not interested. Especially when it screams "series bait" to me. C+.
Contact was an early Bombshell, I'm pretty sure. And I can totally see why Harlequin readers were upset with this line. There is no HEA, per se. There's an implication or hint that a relationship may come, but nothing more. If I were a faithful Hqn category/line reader who picked the book up because it was something new from Hqn, relying on the Hqn reputation and it's standards in other category lines, I'd've been right irritated to get to the end and have no HEA.
