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Title: Contact by Susan Grant ISBN: 0-505-52499-6 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definite keeper
Comment: I whole-heartedly recommend Susan Grant's wonderful s/f romance, CONTACT, but with a warning-- don't do as I did and start reading it in the evening, unless you're prepared to stay up all night. This book sucked me in from the very first exciting paragraphs when a 747 jumbo jet is hijacked in a most unusual manner, through a wonderful romance and thrilling ending--I literally could not put it down. The characters are beautifully drawn, the plot intriguing and the surprises enough to keep you glued to the pages. Definitely a keeper. I'm a new Susan Grant fan--had only read her wonderful novella in the anthology, The Only One, which I loved--but I've already got four of her other books in my TBR stack. I'm hooked!
Rating: 5
Summary: A poignantly emotional read...
Comment: Jordan Cady only has one passion...her six year old daughter, Roberta. As a pilot for a commercial airline, Jordan is away from home for days at a time. When she co-pilots a flight that will only keep her away from home for one day, she promises her daughter that she will come home the next day. Then the unthinkable happens. From her seat in the cockpit, Jordan sees something that makes her doubt her own sanity. What looks like a spaceship swallows the 747 whole. Not knowing what happened and the pilot having died of a heart attack, Jordan is named Captain. With almost three hundred passengers and a flight crew of twenty, Jordan is convinced that they have been taken hostage.
Kao is on the ship that takes control of the 747 from Earth. After seeing the total destruction of Earth with his own eyes, Kao is certain that the survivors will be grateful for saving their lives. What he finds is a plane full of people that will give their lives to save each other. Soon, he finds himself falling for the captain of the ship. He is drawn to her strength and courage, something he has seen little of since he was released from captivity.
Jordan and Kao soon realize that they are in the middle of a bigger plan then they thought. What originally started out as a rescue mission soon turned into something more sinister. With politics and treason, Jordan and Kao must work together to save the citizens of New Earth and find a way to return everyone home.
The story between Kao and Jordan is poignant and heartbreaking. They find eachother in the middle of crisis, only holding onto what they know is true...each other. It is their love that gets them through the three months they spend aboard The Savior and what ulimately saves the lives of more than one hundred people. Kao's inner struggle brought tears to my eyes at times, as did the heartbreak Jordan felt over losing her daughter.
Don't miss it!
Rating: 3
Summary: Who to trust in First Contact
Comment: Susan Grant is an author that definitely uses what she knows as the foundation for her work, then builds upon it an entire new world - or more than one new world.
Jordan Cady is first officer of a United Airlines flight on a routine flight when their aircraft is captured. They are taken aboard an alien space ship, apparently the only survivors from a comet destroying the earth. The captian dies of a heart attack soon after, and now it is Jordan that the survivors look to for leadership. On board the alien vessel, Kào was rescued / captured himself when he was only three and has been raised by his adoptive father Moray, who is in charge of the ship. Kào has recently been imprisoned by the Talagars and tortured. Since his return to the Alliance, Kào has found himself unable to connect with others.
Grant really has a good grasp on the concept of 'alien abduction' - the practacalities of the various emotions - panic, the dawning 'we are not alone' feeling, anger, fright, survivor guilt, helplessness - as well as of the situation in which Jordan and the others on board flight 58 might find themselves - the language barriers, technologies and lack of operations knowledge of even the seemingly simple things, the risk of disease etc that both new races face. This was a very enjoyable aspect of the book and gave great depth to the work as a whole. It certainly deepened the emerging relationship between Jordan and Kào. The conflict between their differing loyalties is well told, but also resolves itself as they acknowledge, at least internally, their feelings for each other. They come to trust each other despite their situation, and having made that bond of trust, it holds true. Call me idealistic, but I found that very touching. The feelings that exist between them are naturally expressed in a physical way and Grant handles this well too, making the sexual scenes both hot and also meaningful.
There is also complexity to the basic plot - spies on all sides, working out who can be trusted, the true fate of Earth and the inevitability of the resulting action (right through to the epilogue). I was very satisfied by the end of the book that Jordan and Kào were heroes that got the ending they deserved. And yet the end is only the beginning of a new Alliance...
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Title: Ravyn's Flight by Patti O'Shea ISBN: 050552516X Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Star Prince by Susan Grant ISBN: 0505524570 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Unearthed by C. J. Barry ISBN: 0505525402 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Star King by Susan Grant ISBN: 0505524139 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter) by Sherrilyn Kenyon ISBN: 0312984820 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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