Autumn Dawn

What to say about this one? First off it's really futuristic rather than sci fi. Earth women get abducted through a gate to an alien planet as brides for a culture whose women have been killed by a virus. There you go, end of any sci fi ness. I kind of felt like this story didn't have its feet on the ground. There was nothing real holding it up. As far as I could tell, this society had one building, a big castle. No industry other than practicing for war, peeling potatoes or being medical technicians.

They make sure to only take virgins who are also orphans from Earth. Then the heroine keeps saying she's mad and wants to go back to Earth which didn't make any sense because she was already falling in love plus her life on Earth sucked and she had made a commitment to adopt 4 orphan boys on the new planet. Really it just felt like the author thought she should throw that 'I want to return to Earth angst' in sometimes rather than it really being part of the story. I won't list more inanities because upon reflection the whole thing was pretty inane and nonsensicle as to plot.

I've read better by this author. Maybe she pulled something old out of the back of the closet eh?… (meer)