Flashback Friday: Jessie recs sci-fi romance

M/M

A Solid Core of Alpha by Amy Lane

This crazy book gave me the chills. Psychologically speaking, it messed me up, but in a good way. So why is this one on a romance blog? Because Anderson and C.J. go through hell and high water to save each other both physically and emotionally, and at the end … love truly does conquer all. Anderson Rawn is the last person alive from a tiny mining colony. He's survived in space by himself for the last 10 years. Which has led to him "making" his own friends and lovers using holoscience. This has caused major psychological trauma and damage. When he finally meets a "real" person, it's C.J. And suddenly there's something worth living for, worth recovering for.

If fantasy is more your thing, Amy has written the Little Goddess series as well as the Green's Hill series (a sub of the LG books).

YA

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

This has been one of the best YA sci-fi books I've read in a few years. Beth Revis also pulled the trilogy into an interesting plotline in the third book that I didn't see coming — and loved every moment. Seventeen-year-old Amy has been cryogenically frozen in the spaceship Godspeed, to be unfrozen once they land and venture into a brand new world. The problem starts when Amy is unfrozen, and we realize that there are secrets aboard the Godspeed, deadly secrets for Amy and Elder, the young leader who unfroze her. This series has twists and turns, subcolonies and aliens, new worlds and new love. The other books in the series are A Million Suns and Shades of Earth.

Cyborg

Burning Up Flint by Laurann Dohner

This is a fabulous audio book (just FYI :-D) and a fun erotic read centering on cyborgs. Flint is not just a cyborg but THE hot alpha male cyborg, and Mira is now his, marked and owned. Many will not like both hero and heroine. Their romance is a bit explosive and Flint a bit to harsh. The bedroom scene is forced at first, and at times you may worry Mira has Stockholm Syndrome, but suspend disbelief and you will have fun reading, not to mention the later books are better. : )

The series:

Burning Up Flint

Kissing Steel

Melting Iron

Touching Ice

Stealing Coal

Redeeming Zorus

Taunting Krell

Haunting Blackie (expected in 2014)

Jessie Potts, also known as Book Taster, adores books in all forms. She also does reviews for Bitten by Books and RT Book Reviews and is an intern at Entangled Publishing. You can follow her on Twitter (@BookTaster).