I'm not sure which cover I prefer. I like the blue color of the redesign, but I think that the original cover conveys more of the story. I have the original cover however so that wins extra points just because it helped me pick it up (though I thought that Ren was Gabriel since he looks more like a ghost then Gabriel does).

I'll say right away I was so happy this was a first person POV from Chaz. I normally prefer those books to third person POV because it helps me feel more 'in tune' with the character. Plus we learn things as they learn things. Which in this case is a wonderful thing because we start with Chaz already planetside and fighting to live. Her past and the events leading up to the prison planet are spread throughout the book as if Gabriel (aka: Sully)'s apparent save from death.

Both of them have heavy enemies and very little time to uncover the plot that Sully found out (the breeding of jukors, though of course this goes deeper then that). Vast Intergalactic Governments are just never the good guys. Except in Accidental Goddess and really they were kind of pandering to a force of evil unintentionally. Plus Chaz wants her good name back, her rank and to be clear of the stigma that she didn't create. They had a large order to fill.

Sully was exasperating, holding things very close to the chest and giving out extra information as it suited him (or when forced to). I'm not talking about his heritage, but facts that needed to be known about the mission they were trying to complete. I would have given Chaz my full support if she took a shot at him once or twice. He was also prone to posturing for the sake of impressing Chaz (especially when he ex-husband was involved).

The only real complaint I have is that it obviously ends in a way that opens itself up to a sequel. Unlike with Accidental Goddess or Games of Command, I think I would have been okay with Gabriel's Ghost being by itself. I had no additional questions regarding Sully or who he was and would have been okay if jukors were never revisited. ( )

good space story ( )

I have a very dysfunctional relationship with this book. It annoyed me yet allured me at the same time, It’s quite seductive. Not for a moment did it leave me indifferent. ( )

I feel generous giving this 3 stars... The worldbuilding was all over the place. So much so that for a while I felt I must have missed a previous book which explained this universe better. But nope... just hard to follow. I never really connected with either H/H though the story itself was interesting. It just always seemed to become bogged down in excessive info-dumping and inexplicable angst. Ended up becoming bored through the second half, and the last 50 pages or so were clearly setting up for the next book in the series (which I have no intention of reading). ( )

I read this for the Vaginal Fantasy Hangout book club, so I suppose I should review it somewhat. Though I usually enjoy sci-fi, and generally enjoy romance, this book was pretty lame. The female lead started out seemingly strong-willed, independent, fierce, everything you could want in a sci-fi/romance heroine. Halfway through the book she turns into this wishy-washy, muddled femme-bot without two brain cells to rub together and it felt like she was constantly turning to one male or another to save her. The hero in the book starts out as the rakish pirate type who you want to hate yourself for liking, but again, halfway through the book, I just ended up hating him. He lied to the heroine constantly, justified his actions with some sad tales of woe from his past, and never learned from his mistakes, so continued to do the same things over and over again through the second half of the book. I truly wanted to like the book, it had the potential to be an excellent story, the ideas were original (for the most part) some of the secondary characters were truly lovable and well written, but the main characters were the sort of people I would avoid in public places if I knew them in real life. I won't be reading the rest of the series, or probably anything else by this author. The only reason I even gave it two stars, was that I truly liked one of the secondary characters enough that he made it worth finishing the book. ( )