This was entirely predictable in every respect, but I still enjoyed it - it's a quick, easy read that's fairly relaxing, and that was all I was looking for today so that's good. The title does make me cringe a little... it almost sounds as if it should be one of those bodice-rippers that B'Elanna canonically reads, but alas, nothing doing.

The most interesting thing about this was one of the subplots, where Voyager picks up an alien who is dying from a disease. There's a cure available, but that cure was made by a Mengele type who experimented on her species, and she has understandable moral qualms about using his work, even if it's to save her own life. I had to go and look up the date of a Voyager episode, "Nothing Human," which is similar, albeit with the storyline transposed over to B'Elanna and a Cardassian doctor. The moral quandary, and even the hologram representations of both the evil doctors, are very much alike, hence my curiosity. I even wondered if they had the same writers, but no. Michael Jan Friedman wrote this book, which came out in 1997, and Jeri Taylor wrote the 1998 episode. 

I wonder if the two of them discussed it! Maybe swapped ideas, or something like that. The similarities seem too great for coincidence.