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Title: Recycled by Selina Rosen ISBN: 1-892065-93-2 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The kitschy formula fails in this sequel
Comment: With Selena Rosen's first book in this series, Queen of Denial, she brought out a fresh and yet trashy new heroine named Drewcila Qwah, a salvager who turns out to be the Queen of Barious with part of her brain removed. While Queen of Denial was an adventurous romp under the tactless and crude guidance of the best garbage scow pilot in the galaxy, the formula fails with Qwah being bound to one planet.
Drew's stock in Qwah-Co is plummeting, so she heads pell-mell off for her home planet of Barious to stop her husband-in-name-only from starting a war with the Lockhedes, the people that the Barions share their planet with. Zarco, Drew's husband, is determined to control her this time at any cost, and thwart her efforts to obtain peace between the people of Barious through a trade agreement. Zarco is tired of being a figurehead, and re-establishes the nobles to positions of authority within the castle and starts a war. He imprisons Drew, and its up to her friends Arcadia and Dylan to try and rescue her. In the meantime, Van Gar, her furry sometime-mate has run off to join a religious cult of his fellow Chitzsky people only to find out he has been duped. He must get the ship back from Pard-Jar, the cult leader, and return to Drew where he knows he belongs.
Drew and Zarco butt heads as we know they will, and it is a battle of the wills between taking the country to war or leading it into peace.
I'm not exactly sure where the formula failed; there is a plot of sorts and the saucy dialogue, but what worked in space travel becomes tedious in this second effort. I loved Drew in the first book, but in this sequel she becomes rather...tedious; perhaps a little too forced. Even on the cover art she looks less mischievous and more skanky, rather a "rode hard and put out wet" countenance that reflects what happened to her in this book. The story went from Kitschy to Klutzy; and while the prose was jumpy in QofD (as I mentioned in my review of it) the prose in Recycled is stuttering and erratic. Pieces of the plot vital to the story are tossed around like...well...garbage, added in at the last minute in an effort to explain something already occurring out of context.
While I still liked Drew's story, I found this sequel to be more of a chore to plow through than a delight like the first book. My recommendation? Read Queen of Denial, and if you are really enchanted then give Recycled a try. If not, don't bother with this one, but don't ever give up on Selina Rosen as an author! She is fresh and interesting and envigorating and unique, and a delight to sit back with and read her work. This particular item just did not catch my fancy or my attention as well as her other stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: who says SF can't be funny?
Comment: There's this old story about how humor doesn't work in science fiction. I don't know how many times I've heard it. The trouble is, there just aren't enough examples around to prove the story wrong. But this is good place to start.
Rosen has written a character and put her in a situation that is bust-a-gut hilarious. It's broad comedy (no pun intended) and it works! I haven't laughed out loud at a book since I read Mark Twain. Wait...there's some Hunter S. Thompson I've laughed out loud at. Gonzo would indeed be a good adjective with which to describe Ms. Rosen. Among others.
This is the follow-up to "Queen of Denial" which will also cause stomach pains. It's a cure to what ails you, if what ails you is a deep desire to read something funny that's also speculative that's also well-imagined that's also science fiction that's also funny--wait, I'm repeating myself I'm repeating myself...
Buy this. Have some fun.
Rating: 5
Summary: The brand new adventures of Drewcilia Qwah
Comment: Drewcila Qwah is a woman whose dreams have come true. She's now filthy rich and the owner of a salvaging empire that spans the galaxy. She's got more sex and alcohol on a regular basis than even she can handle. To top it off she's bought peace and prosperity to Barious, her very own kingdom - now the centre of her recycling empire.
However, its all about to explode on her. Her lover Van Gar is tired of being Drew's lackey and when he finds her sleeping with 3 men, 2 women a midget and a goat he decides he's had enough and leaves her for a new life as a farmer. In the meantime, her husband the King of Barious decides that he doesn't like the fact that his previously regal kingdom is now the happy and wealthy universal hub of "filth" and plots to start a war with the neighbouring Lockheeds to regain what he sees as his kingdoms lost glory.
For Drew this is not good news and most importantly its going to cost her a lot of money in lost profits and under no circumstances is that to be allowed! Drew is a foul mouthed over-sexed larger than life character. Her quest to stop the profit drain and get back to the things that really matter in life like sex, beer and a peaceful garbage scow in space make this a fun book that's as enjoyable as its predecessor "Queen of Denial". This is a funny book to read, so in the words of wisdom from Queen Drew......"So kick back, pop a brew and wait for the fireworks" and enjoy a well thought out and plotted book that could come from no other author, but don't buy this book if you intend to take it too seriously - this is a book written for laughs - so sit back and enjoy it.
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Title: Chains of Destruction by Selina Rosen, Claudia Christian ISBN: 189206569X Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Queen of Denial by Selina Rosen ISBN: 1892065061 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Chains of Freedom by Selina Rosen, Charles Keegan ISBN: 1892065428 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Finders Keepers by Linnea Sinclair ISBN: 1931696993 Publisher: NovelBooks, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair ISBN: 1591050898 Publisher: NovelBooks, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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