Reading time: 2 days
Pages: 314
Genre: Sci fi / Romance
I know I've sort of fallen off the page with reading books, but if you count reading my biology and nutrition books, then I have been extremely proliferate in my accomplishments. And so the cycle of school begins again. I was foolish to believe I could squeeze a book a week while going to school part time. BAH! So this is what happens to your brain on academic hyperdrive: you want to read stupid books when you're done cramming for bi-weekly accelerated midterms. Hence why "Slaaaave."
To summarize, "Slave" reminded me of some kind of closet-book written in secret by someone who never left 8th grade and hasn't gotten any lovin' in many moons. Jacinth is on a mission to rescue her younger sister who' was kidnapped and taken across the galaxy. It's distant future so space travel is the norm and she's got her own ship. Her search leads her to a planet where women are enslaved by men, so to enter this planet she will need a male to pretend to be her master... leading Jacinth to purchase a cat-like man from an alien marketplace somewhere else. With a long foreign name, he's nicknamed "Cat" by Jacinth (original no?) and of course he's tall, dark, handsome, with slit cat eyes, and endowed like... I don't even know. But if one could imagine a species that was designed for pleasuring one another--bingo. And a little odd...... Once they've established not betraying each other, Jacinth starts to execute her plan and rescue baby sis. All goes well, love, love, find sis but wait---she LIKES being captive? And secretly all the women run the planet, not the men? Yes, they've all figured out how to selectively breed in hopes of making their kids less violent and aggressive than the previous generation, but the men have no clue. I don't know which is dumber. Oh well. Everyone's in love. The end.
Grade: Errr..... D+?
+...Interesting... as in weird?
-Jacinth acts like someone from the 21st century while acknowledging no one acts like her. By doing that, you've automatically ruined the characters/society. If the author hadn't written that way, I've never.... ok I probably would still have rolled my eyes at all her quirky sayings that, let's be honest, are corny and CLICHE. And cliche is a sin in writing.
+It was funny, solely because of the premise (cat-man who's the lion king in bed). Seriously, you have to laugh at that.
