Hidden Heart (Futuristic Romance)

Rating:
Summary: Well Crafted but Rather Dull
Review: The first chapter began with an exciting scene of the hero running for his life. He takes refuge in a room that contains a lovely woman who calmly fixes a stunner on him. She is also stark naked. Complex politics and deceptive appearences are hinted at and I settle myself down for a delicious read. Saddly the book doesn't deliever. The author spends page after page rehashing the same internal self-questioning of the hero and sometimes heroine. Four or five pages go by with nothing but narative and then a brief snatch of dialog or plot advancement and then we are back to the same old stuff. The story does feature a very strong heroine and the development of their relationship is very believable. Most of the story is told through the heroes eyes, which is unusual. In superman fashion, by day he poses as a silly vain fool for the benfit of his uncle. His uncle rules the world when the position of course belongs to the hero. But at night the hero is leader of the underground faction to overthrough the evil uncle and a mysterous vistor to the lovely heroin, who of course is engaged to the bumbling fool version of the hero. She has her own agenda - to kill her intended. All of this is great stuff and should have made for much drama and excitement. But the book is dull, dull, dull. I kept waiting for exciting chases and dramatic revelations when his uncle realizes the hero's power. But it never came. All of the potential great scenes were ignored and the background politics never got beyond a paragraph here and there. The ending while logical was like so much of the book a through away. This book could have easily lost a 100 pages and been a much better read. When I was done I felt like I had completed a chore. I try to read every futuristic-romance book that comes out, but sometimes it ain't easy! Now that that's done on to something hopefully a bit more interesting.

Rating:
Summary: A very good book!!
Review: This was a fun read with never a dull moment. It is not your usual futuristic romance and I think Anne Avery a fairly good job of entertaining the reader.