Close Contact
by Katherine Allred
Alien Affairs (2)
science fiction, chick lit
copyright 2010
read in September 2013
rated 9/10: really, really good
Nine out of ten ? Really, really good ? Is this book really that good ?!?
Maybe not. But here's how it goes:
I read Close Contact and thoroughly enjoyed it. Started another book, read a few chapters... And decided that I would rather be re-reading Close Contact. So I re-read Close Contact -- and thoroughly enjoyed it -- again !
That, to me, is worth 9 out of 10 :-)
No, it is not great literature. I doubt that it will be studied by generations of graduate students of the fine arts. Yet it had most of the characteristics of "a good book"...
Great characters... Well, great character, singular :-) With a supporting cast of very capable and generally likeable second-string characters.
The heroine is super strong, super powered, super hot. What's not to like about Echo Adams ?! And she does not take herself too seriously...
Walking into town, she munches on a Space Federation high energy snack bar. No way I could eat this awful stuff, she thinks. Except that it's covered in chocolate...
There's romance... Well, lust... Which quickly proves to be true -- and eternal -- love.
There's an intelligent, annoying but loyal spaceship. A cute pet dragon bird. And a remote planet where fighting is restricted to fist and blade. Swash and buckle in space !
The book is written first person by the heroine. And she is definitely the main -- strongest -- character. The hero is tough, intelligent, heroic -- but no more than an equal partner. Yes, Echo is swept off her feet. But no, this does not make her at all subservient.
A great heroine with a gently self-mocking sense of humor. A fun adventure with danger but no real threat of anything but a happy ending.
What's not to like ?
A really, really good book :-)
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