Games of command - BookWyrm

525 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 2007 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-58963-4

(1 review)

The universe isn't what it used to be. With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha "Sass" Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten--and doing her best to hide a deadly past. But when an injured mercenary winds up in their ship's sick bay--and in the hands of her best friend, Dr. Eden Fynn--Sass's efforts may be wasted.Wanted rebel Jace Serafino has information that could expose all of Sass's secrets, tear the fragile Alliance apart--and end Sass's career if Kel-Paten discovers them. But the biocybe has something to hide as well, something once thought impossible for his kind to possess: feelings . . . for Sass. Soon it's clear that their prisoner could bring down everything they once believed was worth dying for--and everything they now have to live for.From the Paperback edition.

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betty reviewed Games of command by Linnea Sinclair (Bantam books romance)

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2 stars

Reading this book, I kept on saying, sometimes out-loud, "haha whut." The entire thing is really so ludicrously over the top, and the main conflict feels like something that might have come from a Saturday morning cartoon produced in the eighties. I enjoyed it a lot, when I wasn't writhing in sympathetic embarrassment at the display of authorial id.

Captain Tasha 'Sass' Sebastian is serving under (not like that!) Admiral Brendon Kel-Paten. Their respective empires were once at war, but are now allied, which causes a certain amount of stress for Sass, especially since she has successfully concealed, 'till now, her former career as a smuggler and spy. Brenden, however, is doing what he's been doing for the last twelve years: Writing soppy love letters he will never send to the woman who captured his heart when she met him in battle, Tasha Sebastian.

Yes. I know. And I haven't …

Reading this book, I kept on saying, sometimes out-loud, "haha whut." The entire thing is really so ludicrously over the top, and the main conflict feels like something that might have come from a Saturday morning cartoon produced in the eighties. I enjoyed it a lot, when I wasn't writhing in sympathetic embarrassment at the display of authorial id.

Captain Tasha 'Sass' Sebastian is serving under (not like that!) Admiral Brendon Kel-Paten. Their respective empires were once at war, but are now allied, which causes a certain amount of stress for Sass, especially since she has successfully concealed, 'till now, her former career as a smuggler and spy. Brenden, however, is doing what he's been doing for the last twelve years: Writing soppy love letters he will never send to the woman who captured his heart when she met him in battle, Tasha Sebastian.

Yes. I know. And I haven't even told you about the telepathic energy vampires who can only be defeated by teleporting cats. Did I mention Brendon is frightened of letting Sass know his feelings because he fears she could never love him, since he's a cyborg?

However, what this book does have loads of yearning, which I am a sucker for.

Apparently this book won some sort of 'RITA award' which tells me that the only thing lacking for me to become a RITA award-winning author is the discipline to write five-hundred pages.