Polaris Rising
Jessie Mihalik
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Polaris Rising
Jessie Mihalik
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
An independent woman with powerful self-knowledge, Ada’s story is free of 'rescued princess' tropes that can diminish a space opera. In a refreshing turn, Mihalik doesn’t compromise the action with a constant sexual undercurrent, but rather allows Ada and Loch to revel together in singular moments that perfectly punctuate the novel’s high energy pacing. The erotic elements are written with an economy that lets sex be sex, without an excess of emotional angst or contrived foreplay. The romance is raw, spare and more powerful for it.
Everything I ever hoped and dreamed I could find in this subgenre.
High-tech action, political intrigue, and steamy romance.
The opener to Mihalik’s debut trilogy, a simplistic space opera with a side of erotica, starts far too slowly and fails to build dramatic tension even in its most frantic escape scenes, while both character and plot development lean toward the bland and stereotyped.