It’s a TIE-fighter. Totally relevant.

And we’re at the very, very last story. Which I ironically began just when I received the preliminary email from the group that creates these about the 2016 Don’t Read in the Closet Event. So. I maybe cried a little.

I also would like to add a belated paragraph here (because I wrote this days before I posted it for no conceivable reason) wherein I casually mention that I submitted a prompt for a story in the 2015 Don’t Read in the Closet Event. I will not be writing anything, but I submitted a prompt. And that alone took me like two hours. So. I will be reading at least one author-letter next year, and having High Expectations for what comes of it.

But anyway, back to the final review:

For the last story I saved one by an author I knew that I liked, because reading a bad story last would have ruined the whole thing for me (in much the same way that books of fairy tales that end with poems about dead babies do). So the story I elected to save was Laser Visions by Kaje Harper.

I’m pretty sure that what I’ve read by the author previously was all sci-fi, so I figured ‘lasers’ probably meant…shooting gun battles in deep space or something. But I was, unsurprisingly, wrong.

It’s still sci-fi, but the sort that’s set on Earth and only a (realistic) hundred years into the future, so they had what cell phones might turn into, and self-driving cars, and…laser beams that can record what you’re saying. And, you know, spirit walking.

There’s not too much more that I can say without ruining something, because it’s a book of secrets and mysteries. And there’s nothing to complain about, not really. Although now I feel like I need to dig up something…oh, I know, the intensity-climax came just after the middle of the book, and then the secondary climax was…anti. Not really a let-down, just on the too-easy side of things.

But overall it was a fascinating well-balanced book with lots of intensity, a fairly hot (and slow-burning) romance, a well-executed plot, a smidgen of sex, and a few bittersweet moments. It was good. You should go read it.