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First tagged "science fiction romance" by Miriel12
Get More Details tags: science fiction romance, fairy tale retellings, beauty and the beast
Product Description
Anika Jespers, a homesteader’s daughter on a Gaian colony, thinks she’s unfailing for a lifeless existence on her family’s farm. But when her father creates an unfit discount with their neighbor, one of a visitor Zhore, she faces a destiny opposite from anything she could have presumably imagined.
The informed story of Beauty and a Beast takes on new life in this resourceful SF intrigue novella, with a Beauty a homesteader's daughter and a Beast an visitor on a lost cluster world.
Novella length: 32,000 words, or approximately 120 pages long
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #176646 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-06-10
- Released on: 2011-06-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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By katherine tomlinson
This beautifully created chronicle of Beauty and a Beast facilities an alien/human adore story that is achingly regretful and lovingly detailed. All of a elements of a story are here, though with new twists that make a story a 21st century pleasure.
Heroine Anika is lively and believable, and her attribute with her marred sister is pivotal to a plot, and a reduction of adore and annoyance is one of a education elements that "sells" a sci fi.
There is indulgence here, and not only in a adore scenes. Pope brings her visitor universe to transparent life, and her descriptions of all from a food to a flowers to a alien's skin are textured though being overwritten.
This is not a gimmicky story during all though a new turn on a undying tale. Lovely.
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By JLW
Wow oh wow was this a pleasing story. we customarily don't like it when a story is this brief though a author did a miraculous take on a Beauty and a Beast story in a sic-fi, updated way. The heroine is miraculous and we like how a "beast" is suggested in a finish - soooo romantic.
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By Sabrina Furminger
Christine Pope sends a dear fairytale mountainous into circuit with Breath of Life, her sci-fi spin on Beauty and a Beast.
Pope's character is transparent and conversational. Perhaps since we knew where a story was headed--it is formed on Beauty and a Beast, after all--I could feel Anika's adore for Sarzhin a Zhore effervescent underneath a aspect from a get-go. The aged propagandize adore story unfolded with a beauty of one of Pope's deftly construed moonflowers.
I enjoyed Pope's universe scarcely as most as we enjoyed her characters. Her descriptions of Lathvin IV, and Sarzhin's lush palace in particular, sucked me in.
While we do have some slow questions (namely, because is Anika so fervent to leave her family? Why isn't she tremor with fear as she strides adult a walkway?), Pope's romance is so entertaining--so punchy and witty--that we could pardon how fast Anika throws herself into this new life.
I adore Pope's character and we demeanour brazen to reading some-more of her work.
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