Forbidden Planet (Worlds Apart Book 1)

Marlee is a desperate girl after . . . And especially with . . . Who . . . Is hurting cause . . .

Tyris is a desperate guy who . . . Ends up with . . . And a . . .

When he is conscious, they are . . . In a relationship that becomes . . . And then . . .

Will they be together after he fixes the . . . Or will he leave her alone with . . .??

Enjoy!! ?

This fun sci-fi romance from Rinelle Grey kept me reading even though when I picked it up I wasn't really in the mood for a science fiction story. Despite the fact that I was looking for something lighter than science fiction usually ends up being, I couldn't put this book down. In fact, I bought the next book in the series, Reckless Rebellion, the day after I finished the first book, but I'm trying to save it for a weekend read.

Besides the intriguing romance between the Marlee and Tyris, there is the mystery of why the Colonies abandoned these people, not to mention the inspiring tale of how they've survived up to now.

The characters are complex and very believable, the prose is well-written, and very well-edited without the usual typos and mistakes that distract me in other e-books. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I only give absolutely astounding fiction books that I can't live without and obsessively read over and over five stars. Most good and even great reads are four stars.

The premise and concept is fantastic. The story was plausible and the characterization was great. This is something that could actually happen in the millenniums to come. Looking forward to the next book.

Fun, if very juvenile, characters but confused and unbelievable motivations and explanations get one's goat after a while. Good characterization and action flow keeps the reader's attention, but the flaws leave one disappointed.

This book was longer than I anticipated. The characters were consistent given the conflicts. Given other fantasy/space romances this one was a fresh take. The pace did drag a bit at times, but I'm willing to read more from this author. I plan on getting the second installment.

The premise is interesting in this romance between a man from a world with all modern conveniences and a woman from the make-do and mend society on the planet where he crashlands.

While this is not in itself new, the traveller has come from a world where the anysogen fuel for FTL travel is scarce and valued, to seek it on this primitive colony world. The anysogen is here all right but the gas in the atmosphere has accumulated to make the settlers gradually more sterile. A formal arrangement exists whereby a couple must split if they do not produce children in a short time, and try with someone else.

This is a sad and sobering state of affairs for any colony without a way to get off the planet or contact the home world, and these people feel that they were abandoned after a meteor shower forced the overseers to evacuate.

My main criticism is that there is a lot of repetition of the information I have just given. Several times over we find people restating matters, which is only helpful when another nugget of information is added, as occasionally happens. I personally did not like to see women reduced to the status of breeding animals - this came across as the major factor in everyone's life, not how to develop better ways of adapting the equipment they'd been left or how to develop usable fuel from the anysogen.

The simple cabin life is described at length, great if I want to know how to bottle fruit, not so great if I want an SF action adventure. Somehow these people, used to getting snow for six months of the year, don't think to shovel the roof. There is no real high tech on this world, yet they expect to be able to use spacecraft.

Perhaps this book is setting up for the series to follow and the next books will be more lively, and the author will have reduced the repetition. There are adult scenes in the context of a stable partnership, though I think most of us would have been getting there a lot sooner.

While the grammar and punctuation were ok, unfortunately the plot was slow and unengaging. The characters were shallow and never captured my interest. A very tiny spoiler...Tyris' wife leaves him because they can't have children per a governmental decree. She hadn't wanted any and neither had he; but, deep thinker that she is (not) believes that being married to him will hurt her acting career. Tyris' brother comes over and essentially says, "Hey, don't be blue. Just go out into space and discover something the government needs and all your problems will be solved." So that's what our hero decides to do, because doing something risky to get back the wife who left him within minutes of finding out about his new fertility status says volumes about their true love, and his intelligence.

Yes, wish-fulfillment as a life-plan makes up the majority of the book. Everybody sounds and acts like junior high teens who need help in logical thinking. Hopefully, the next book will be a lot better. More action and less dreary, mopy, juvenile behavior.

I enjoy stories that are filled with thought provoking themes and different view points. This novel included views into two completely differnt worlds and opposing lifestyles. Tyris has lived a life filled privilege but is forced reexamine all he took for granted once he is nearly stranded forever on a plant where the people are forced to live primitively. (No TV and modern medicine). He meets Marlee and they both discover what true love is. I can't wait to read the next book as they travel back to his world in order to rescue the rest of Marlle's village from there toxic planet.

Reckless Rescue

I am one of those "sometimes" romantic readers. In this case, this is a SciFi story with a romantic turn which is much, much deeper than that. This book touches on many of the important issues of today. Pollution, overcrowding, diminishing resources, political crimes, the list goes on and on.

Rinelle does a wonderful job of character development and world building. This is a backward world, lost in a corner of the galaxy, left to its own devices and dying slowly from the effects of anysogen gas - a gas that the rest of the galaxy would, literally, kill to gain.

The story is both interesting and well-developed. There is a great deal of creativity that I haven't found recently in the genre. That, in itself, was a great pleasure. That, and the fact that the book doesn't take itself seriously. The characters suffer, but at the same time there is a lightness to the story that kept it from bogging down in angst.

Finally, as a proofreader/editor I was quite pleased to find that the book was very well edited. I see too many self-published books where the author seems to have no care at all for the quality of their writing. It is distressing. In this case, kudos to Rinelle for an excellently proofed work!

Overall, I will be looking forward to the next in the series
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Parts of this book reminded me of the Hunger Games. They aren't anything alike plot wise, but Marlee and her people having to do everything by hand and cook over a fire was very much like District 12 in the Hunger Games books despite both books being science fiction.

We don't see that much of Tyris' world, Urslat, before we get Marlee's POV and then Tyris in the ship near her planet but it's clear that the tech is far beyond ours (the space ship is kind of a giveway, really). We see him getting a letter saying that he has to get a contraceptive chip implanted because of overpopulation and his criminal record (due to a protest he went to when he was younger).

I loved that the ships needed something special to make them travel faster. I don't read that much science fiction, but I've never seen that before. Either it flies or it doesn't. I also loved both Tyris and Marlee, which is rare for me.

Tyris landing on Marlee's planet was a huge culture shock for him. I found it quite amusing that he was so surprised by her being able to make bread. There wasn't much mention about how they are from two very different worlds (literally) until close to the end of the book, when Marlee was wondering about what she would do when they got to Urslat.

The main conflict in the book was mostly related to Marlee's planet and the lack of people there (they have ferility problems due to the anysogen in the air, which is what Tyris was looking for). Couples are alllowed to stay together for 18 months, unless the woman gets pregnant. If she's not pregant at the end of the that time they have to split up. I understood the reasons for it (more children are needed, since there's only about 100 people on the whole planet - if you want the backstory for that, read the book), but I can't blame the younger generation for being angry about it.

Wow! What a well written story that brought a whole new world to life. Tyris and Marlee both had such different upbringings and environments but were able to connect so well. I loved that it wasn't a typical romance book. It was about internal and external(environment) struggles as well. I found myself connecting with the characters right away. I look forward to the next chapter of Tyris's and Marlee's story in the next book!

The story was very interesting. Lots of twist and turn that made an outstanding novel. The only little thing that bothered me were the either typos or mistakes (grammatical, etc.) That kept me from making it 5 stars.

A very good sci-fi romance story with some intrigue thrown in. Hate this is a continuing series, but still think it is a great effort. Thank you Rinelle for your time and imagination in this story. Also thanks to instaFreebies for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review. DS

I was very much into Marlee's rebellious nature. I wasn't sure about Tyris at first, but after he meets Marlee, the novel gets interesting. I couldn't put it down.
It seems there's even a few secrets. And a few disasters. And sweet romance.
Clean language. Three sex scenes.

Wonderful book about Tyrist and Marlee and their journey to be together on a planet that's not safe to live on with so many strict and unfair rules. I cant wait to read what happens when they venture out to his home land