Review Slip Point Karalynn Lee
From childhood, Shay had one dream—to join the Space Corps with her best friend and sweetheart, Jayce. When the Space Corps reveals that the father she thought was dead is actually an infamous pirate and rejects her application, the dream dies and she leaves the planet without saying a word to Jayce.
Ten years later, Shay is a pirate herself. She captains her own ship and has earned a reputation as one of the slipperiest pilots around. That’s why she’s recruited for a dangerous secret government mission. But the cargo she’s assigned to smuggle turns out to be a woman with a government bodyguard—Jayce.
Jayce never thought he’d see Shay again, and when the mission forces them together on her ship, he isn’t sure he can forgive her for deserting him; but their desire for each other is stronger than ever. Jayce knows he wants to be with Shay, but how can he trust a woman who’s both a pirate and the girl who broke his heart?
I expected this to suck. Honestly. I expected this to be horrible. But it wasn’t. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Slip Point. It reminded me of the good full length sci-fi, urban fantasy novels of Lauren Dane and Sherilyn Kenyon who all have a similar way of writing hyperspace adventures, give the reader just enough information about the space travel and the new urban fantasy world to allow you to create it in your mind, and then they focus on fast and intense dialogue and character development to reel the reader in and make them desperately ache to find out what is going to happen to their romance and their love.
The story of Shay and Jayce could have been extremely tragic. Separated as kids when they both went to sign up for pilot school, thats when Shay found out that her father whom she thought was dead as a ships captain has really been alive and working as a pirate since leaving her mother. And that he never knew who she was or that she even existed. Fast forward 10 years and she is the renowned daughter of the famous pirate, a menace in her own right but one who has a soul and a level to which she won’t even stoop and she is requested to fly a mission for her government that will end up leading to pardons for her family and exclusive trade agreements to lead her family to established trade routes.
When Jayce turns up on her mission, Shay is shocked for sure but the chemistry and the heat from their childhood daliance is still there. The problem I had is that the chemistry was weak. I bought that they had teenage hots, but how that was supposed to translate to current attraction didn’t pan out for me. I also didn’t get how they were going to be able to get past years of built in mistrust of the other’s job and their life choices with very little relationship dialogue.
While I enjoyed reading Slip Point greatly, I just wish it had been more believable.
Overall Rating: B-
