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Beringia
by Tierra Cox
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Found a book I like from Tierra Cox! 3.5 rounded up up up So glad I'm still at the stage in my readerhood/readership/reader-lifespan (you get it) where I don't DNF authors after one or two books that don't agree with me at the time. Look at this gem I fell into!
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Listen, way to hook a person - hurl a meteor at a lone woman in a podship all alone in space and make her scramble to survive. That was exhilirating.
A WOC astronaut in Russia already grabbed me by the mind and yanked - I was excited having lived in Vladivostok pre-pandemic and war. Plus, a little scurrying for survival in hostile territory makes for a great scifi-romp.
Character Development/Favorite Character: 1.5
🖤Vova/Vladimir (Ivan Bunin) needs his OWN book. I love him.
🖤Polar/Maksim is a MFing genius! and he is unique, an interesting augmented specimen and I love a unique 6.5 giant - who doesn't? I also like that he is primal "filthy", makes his striking good looks easy to process.
🖤Rome is an intelligent smartass and that won her a ton of points. Sometimes her POV and Makims POV sounded unnervingly similar - as in 1st person narrative problems with differenting the "sound" of each character- the similarities were obvious but after a few chapters I got over it.
What I didn't get over was Rome's ability to veer into eye-roll annoying territory sometimes. She comes across as self-centered in those moments. But when I look at the characters at the end of it all , I did like them more than they annoyed me.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene::
Three of many scenes:
🖤An epic crashlanding into Russia and Maksim's rescue-retrieval.
🖤 "I should be more concerned about the fact that he freaking lifted a mine elevator with my ass in it like he was hauling wood, but no! I am 95% sure the pressing concern is the fact that this man glows!".
🖤 Two hot nerds inspecting a bat.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤“they can say landing as much as they want. I will be crashing, in style, but still crashing.A controlled crash, whatever.,” (Rome before that epic crash)
🖤“"You'll be following me around for the next four months, like a duckling. So you are duckling,” (You know, I like Maksim, the hot giant grump)
🖤“You plague my thoughts and I want to do nothing more than to crawl into your skin and live there. I don't deserve your kindness, and I don't deserve you,” (Awwww! Sweet Maksim)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
A toss up between "Ice Puppies" from one of Saturn's moons VS Polar's glow-in-the-dark cave mycelium.
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Romance Books by 2025
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Listen, way to hook a person - hurl a meteor at a lone woman in a podship all alone in space and make her scramble to survive. That was exhilirating.
A WOC astronaut in Russia already grabbed me by the mind and yanked - I was excited having lived in Vladivostok pre-pandemic and war. Plus, a little scurrying for survival in hostile territory makes for a great scifi-romp.
Character Development/Favorite Character: 1.5
🖤Vova/Vladimir (Ivan Bunin) needs his OWN book. I love him.
🖤Polar/Maksim is a MFing genius! and he is unique, an interesting augmented specimen and I love a unique 6.5 giant - who doesn't? I also like that he is primal "filthy", makes his striking good looks easy to process.
🖤Rome is an intelligent smartass and that won her a ton of points. Sometimes her POV and Makims POV sounded unnervingly similar - as in 1st person narrative problems with differenting the "sound" of each character- the similarities were obvious but after a few chapters I got over it.
What I didn't get over was Rome's ability to veer into eye-roll annoying territory sometimes. She comes across as self-centered in those moments. But when I look at the characters at the end of it all , I did like them more than they annoyed me.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene::
Three of many scenes:
🖤An epic crashlanding into Russia and Maksim's rescue-retrieval.
🖤 "I should be more concerned about the fact that he freaking lifted a mine elevator with my ass in it like he was hauling wood, but no! I am 95% sure the pressing concern is the fact that this man glows!".
🖤 Two hot nerds inspecting a bat.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤“they can say landing as much as they want. I will be crashing, in style, but still crashing.A controlled crash, whatever.,” (Rome before that epic crash)
🖤“"You'll be following me around for the next four months, like a duckling. So you are duckling,” (You know, I like Maksim, the hot giant grump)
🖤“You plague my thoughts and I want to do nothing more than to crawl into your skin and live there. I don't deserve your kindness, and I don't deserve you,” (Awwww! Sweet Maksim)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
A toss up between "Ice Puppies" from one of Saturn's moons VS Polar's glow-in-the-dark cave mycelium.
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Romance Books by 2025