Name: Enemy Within
ISBN: 9780425236857

Marcella Burnard

After former alien-prison inmate Captain Ari Rose is captured by space pirates who think she may be an alien spy, pirate leader Cullin can't stifle his feelings of suspicion--and desire. A first novel. Original.

Enemy Within

Sans

*sigh* I spent a good amount of time this morning working on a coherent review of this book. And lost it when I tried to post after failing to notice the wifi failed. ~_~ I'm not going to spend another half hour trying to recreate it.

I liked this book but didn't love it. It was a compelling story, I read it one sitting and I'm glad I read it, but it didn't wow me. I liked the main characters, Ari and Cullin, but I didn't love them. I liked their romance but didn't love it and wasn't fully convinced of their feelings for each other. I liked the side characters but more could have been done with them than a few off-handed comments about their pasts. 

I did NOT like the buggy bad guy (and I know I wasn't supposed to, so that's good). I got a bit squicked by the last couple of chapters and I think the way the good guys handled the situation was a bit crude. It got a bit...tawdry-feeling at the end. And the final chapter read like a film school screenwriter's attempt at showing how clever they were by showing the reader all those little clues they might have missed. Didn't fly for me. I'm not sure the matter of who hacked into the ships computers was explained, though it might have been and I skimmed right over it. It was almost 4am when I finished reading, so it's very possible I missed quite a bit.

Anyway. A good effort, good writing overall and the world building was very well done. I'll read the next book by this author, but I'm not waiting on tenterhooks for it.

Enemy Within

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