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Ironhaven
Earth is dying, and Lucian Hoyt is going to die with it thanks to his parents cancelling his pass aboard the last shuttle off the planet. Yet hope exists in the form of a brilliant inventor has come up with a plan to evacuate those who've been left behind.
Genevieve Scott didn't think she'd ever see ex-fiancé Lucian again. She can't see she's overly thrilled to see him now; now when all he wants is a way off the planet. However she determines to make him aware of one truth - no one deserves to die just because they can't afford a pass.
As old memories surface, both Lucian and Gen feel the pull of their previous relationship. Yet even melting the ice between them can't erase all the scars, and Gen isn't sure she can trust her heart to Lucian a second time.
Genevieve Scott didn't think she'd ever see ex-fiancé Lucian again. She can't see she's overly thrilled to see him now; now when all he wants is a way off the planet. However she determines to make him aware of one truth - no one deserves to die just because they can't afford a pass.
As old memories surface, both Lucian and Gen feel the pull of their previous relationship. Yet even melting the ice between them can't erase all the scars, and Gen isn't sure she can trust her heart to Lucian a second time.
69 pages, ebook
First published July 27, 2011
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Misa Buckley
19 books72 followersMisa Buckley grew up watching Doctor Who and reading her sister's Harlequin novels. Now she writes romance with her peculiar touch of weird.
When she's not writing, she likes to paint, crochet, and attempt to play guitar. She lives in the north-west of England with her husband, adult son. a daft dog and a crazy cat.
When she's not writing, she likes to paint, crochet, and attempt to play guitar. She lives in the north-west of England with her husband, adult son. a daft dog and a crazy cat.
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August 7, 2011
I found the descriptions and world-building in Ironhaven to be wonderful. Misa developed her characters and setting so well. Lucian and Gen quickly drew me in and I enjoyed the ride. As for the romantic elements, they were very sensual and romantic.
For those who enjoy apocalyptic romance and/or science fiction romance, this story is for you. If not, it's still worth a read.
For those who enjoy apocalyptic romance and/or science fiction romance, this story is for you. If not, it's still worth a read.
August 2, 2011
I'm so glad I picked up this book. It is totally unique and not like anything I've ever read before. While this world is not one I would want to live in, visiting it was fantastic. Oh and ladies--hot, virgin hero. This is an author to watch.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 29, 2012
This story had me hooked from page one. Give me colony ships, a dying planet, and someone forcibly left behind, betrayed, and I'm yours. Just the right ingredients for a good tale, and Ironhaven doesn't disappoint. Very well written.
February 5, 2012
Ironhaven, by Misa Buckley, was a surprisingly good science fiction romance that I received unsolicited from the author.
The story starts as the last shuttle leaving a dying earth is about to take off from the spaceport. Lucian Hoyt believes he has a ticket on it. But he discovers when he attempts to board the ship that his ticket has been cancelled--by his parents! Since they refuse to answer his calls to clear up the mess, he is left with the conclusion that he is being disowned in a rather permanent fashion because he refused to marry the upper-crust debutante his rich parents had chosen for him.
It's never specified, but our earth has gotten a lot colder, and things are getting worse. Whether this is a future where the sun is just getting old, or whether we've screwed up the planet, it doesn't matter. The point of the story is that everyone knows the planet is dying, but that there is plenty of time to get some people off planet, just not everyone. And the ones remaining have plenty of time to worry about when death will come for them.
So Lucian gets left behind. He resents his parents for having left him, naturally enough. Lucian is used to being rich, to being part of the upper crust of society. Now, everyone he sees resents him for being one of the people who left them behind, even though he has been abandoned, too.
All is not lost, however. In the first bar he walks into, Lucian meets a pilot, Drew. Drew knows an engineer who might be able to built a ship, if Lucian is interested. Lucian goes looking, just thinking there might be a way out of the death-spiral. What he finds is his past.
Lucian didn't marry Elspeth "flaming" Pennington, the rich debutante, because he never stopped loving the one woman his parents forbade him from marrying. When Lucian discovers that Genevieve Scott is the engineer, and is the only person who might possibly be able to built them all a way off their dying planet, he finds he wants to build a bridge back over the chasm separating them every bit as much as he wants to help her build that ship.
The question is whether either of them can get past the hurt and the scars, both emotional and physical, that five years of separation, pain and broken promises have left on their bodies and hearts.
Escape Rating B+: I enjoyed this story very much. I really wanted it to be longer! It's only 49 pages, and there was a certain amount of background I wanted, like what was really going wrong with the Earth, that I just wanted to know.
Gen and Lucian and interesting characters. I wanted to spend more time with them. They deserved their happy ending, they worked very hard for it. Again, I would have liked just a little more background. But as the reader, I definitely felt their pain. There's a specific instance about the lack of background that made this a B+ and not an A. Lucian is in his 30s. Without more background, it was difficult to understand why his parents still had such an vise-like grip on his life. There's something about the way that the society is structured that I didn't get. Gen couldn't figure out why Lucian didn't contact her in the five years they were separated, if he loved her so much, and I couldn't either.
This book is only 50 pages. The author did a remarkable job tying up all the loose ends. I simply wanted more!
The story starts as the last shuttle leaving a dying earth is about to take off from the spaceport. Lucian Hoyt believes he has a ticket on it. But he discovers when he attempts to board the ship that his ticket has been cancelled--by his parents! Since they refuse to answer his calls to clear up the mess, he is left with the conclusion that he is being disowned in a rather permanent fashion because he refused to marry the upper-crust debutante his rich parents had chosen for him.
It's never specified, but our earth has gotten a lot colder, and things are getting worse. Whether this is a future where the sun is just getting old, or whether we've screwed up the planet, it doesn't matter. The point of the story is that everyone knows the planet is dying, but that there is plenty of time to get some people off planet, just not everyone. And the ones remaining have plenty of time to worry about when death will come for them.
So Lucian gets left behind. He resents his parents for having left him, naturally enough. Lucian is used to being rich, to being part of the upper crust of society. Now, everyone he sees resents him for being one of the people who left them behind, even though he has been abandoned, too.
All is not lost, however. In the first bar he walks into, Lucian meets a pilot, Drew. Drew knows an engineer who might be able to built a ship, if Lucian is interested. Lucian goes looking, just thinking there might be a way out of the death-spiral. What he finds is his past.
Lucian didn't marry Elspeth "flaming" Pennington, the rich debutante, because he never stopped loving the one woman his parents forbade him from marrying. When Lucian discovers that Genevieve Scott is the engineer, and is the only person who might possibly be able to built them all a way off their dying planet, he finds he wants to build a bridge back over the chasm separating them every bit as much as he wants to help her build that ship.
The question is whether either of them can get past the hurt and the scars, both emotional and physical, that five years of separation, pain and broken promises have left on their bodies and hearts.
Escape Rating B+: I enjoyed this story very much. I really wanted it to be longer! It's only 49 pages, and there was a certain amount of background I wanted, like what was really going wrong with the Earth, that I just wanted to know.
Gen and Lucian and interesting characters. I wanted to spend more time with them. They deserved their happy ending, they worked very hard for it. Again, I would have liked just a little more background. But as the reader, I definitely felt their pain. There's a specific instance about the lack of background that made this a B+ and not an A. Lucian is in his 30s. Without more background, it was difficult to understand why his parents still had such an vise-like grip on his life. There's something about the way that the society is structured that I didn't get. Gen couldn't figure out why Lucian didn't contact her in the five years they were separated, if he loved her so much, and I couldn't either.
This book is only 50 pages. The author did a remarkable job tying up all the loose ends. I simply wanted more!
January 12, 2014
Reviewed by Crystal
Book provided by the publisher for review
Review originally posted at Romancing the Book
Ironhaven is a good short read. I really enjoyed reading it.
I can’t imagine that my own parents would disown me and leave me on a planet just for not doing what they wanted me to do. Lucien is a man in his thirties and has always done what his parents wanted. When he finally grows a backbone everything changes.
Lucien was so down and out and found out that there still might be a way off of Earth before it freezes. He goes to find the inventor and it turns out being the woman he had left at the altar five years ago Genevieve.
Gen, as he called her, has some scars left over from their past and when I say scars I mean literally. She tried to win Lucien’s parents over so that they would let them get married.
I really enjoyed watching Lucien do whatever he could to win back Gen. The thing is they both still loved each other just Gen is afraid for Lucien to see her because of her scars. You could feel the love that had survived five years between them. Lucien wasn’t some rich jerk who thought he was better than everybody.
Gen opens Lucien’s eyes to what was really going on in Ironhaven. He takes everything his parents left and sales everything to get the money to help Gen build a way for everyone that was left on Earth to leave.
Ironhaven has a little twist that I loved and is something I wish a lot more man do. Can you imagine a guy in his thirties is still a virgin? Well he was because his parents controlled everything he did. I really loved watching them fall more into love with each other. It helped heal the pain that they both had for five years. Gen had to open her heart and trust again.
The only thing I didn’t like was you never knew what the outcome was.
Favorite Quote: Gen chuckled. “I’d forgotten that you were virgin territory.”
Book provided by the publisher for review
Review originally posted at Romancing the Book
Ironhaven is a good short read. I really enjoyed reading it.
I can’t imagine that my own parents would disown me and leave me on a planet just for not doing what they wanted me to do. Lucien is a man in his thirties and has always done what his parents wanted. When he finally grows a backbone everything changes.
Lucien was so down and out and found out that there still might be a way off of Earth before it freezes. He goes to find the inventor and it turns out being the woman he had left at the altar five years ago Genevieve.
Gen, as he called her, has some scars left over from their past and when I say scars I mean literally. She tried to win Lucien’s parents over so that they would let them get married.
I really enjoyed watching Lucien do whatever he could to win back Gen. The thing is they both still loved each other just Gen is afraid for Lucien to see her because of her scars. You could feel the love that had survived five years between them. Lucien wasn’t some rich jerk who thought he was better than everybody.
Gen opens Lucien’s eyes to what was really going on in Ironhaven. He takes everything his parents left and sales everything to get the money to help Gen build a way for everyone that was left on Earth to leave.
Ironhaven has a little twist that I loved and is something I wish a lot more man do. Can you imagine a guy in his thirties is still a virgin? Well he was because his parents controlled everything he did. I really loved watching them fall more into love with each other. It helped heal the pain that they both had for five years. Gen had to open her heart and trust again.
The only thing I didn’t like was you never knew what the outcome was.
Favorite Quote: Gen chuckled. “I’d forgotten that you were virgin territory.”
June 28, 2017
Opening disclaimer: The author is an acquaintance of mine, though our relationship has in no way influenced this review (I even obtained the book myself without her knowledge!)
I really enjoyed this one! It pulled me in right from the start and mostly held my attention throughout. Mostly. There were times when I found myself losing interest as things started to drag a bit in some parts, but overall it wasn’t bad.
The characters were really enjoyable, each with their own little quirks. I did find Genevieve a little difficult to relate to at times, but I think that’s mostly due to her situation and my unfamiliarity with being in such a position. For all I know, I’d act exactly as she did. In any case, it wasn’t terribly bothersome, nor did it pull me out of things.
I did feel that it was maybe a wee bit short, both in a “This is so awesome I want to see more of this world” and a “hang on, I feel like I’m missing something here… did I miss something?” way. I would have liked to see more of the world, especially before the story starts, in order to learn a little more about it.
But overall, it was well written and definitely enjoyable!
I really enjoyed this one! It pulled me in right from the start and mostly held my attention throughout. Mostly. There were times when I found myself losing interest as things started to drag a bit in some parts, but overall it wasn’t bad.
The characters were really enjoyable, each with their own little quirks. I did find Genevieve a little difficult to relate to at times, but I think that’s mostly due to her situation and my unfamiliarity with being in such a position. For all I know, I’d act exactly as she did. In any case, it wasn’t terribly bothersome, nor did it pull me out of things.
I did feel that it was maybe a wee bit short, both in a “This is so awesome I want to see more of this world” and a “hang on, I feel like I’m missing something here… did I miss something?” way. I would have liked to see more of the world, especially before the story starts, in order to learn a little more about it.
But overall, it was well written and definitely enjoyable!
September 29, 2011
A heart-breaking romance with a background of apocalyptic scifi, I really felt for the two main characters in this story. Lucian Hoyt is an ass, but his parents’ outrageous behavior at abandoning him on a dying Earth by invalidating his pass on the last shuttle is shocking. When he meets his potential savior and we learn their bitter history, suddenly his fate seems appropriate. Luckily for him, his determination to put things right and gain the forgiveness of his ex-fiancee drives him to redemption.
The story made me cry, a sure sign than the author’s style and characterizations had me in complete empathy to their tragic relationship. A short and enthralling read.
The story made me cry, a sure sign than the author’s style and characterizations had me in complete empathy to their tragic relationship. A short and enthralling read.
December 10, 2012
Misa Buckley is fast becoming one of my favorite sci fi authors. In the far future as time is running out for the planet, Lucian Hoyt tries to rekindle the flame with his first love Genevieve Scott. She suspects that his motive is to save his own butt since she's his only hope for survival. I'm a sucker for a sentimental love story and Misa delivered with Ironhaven. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
August 12, 2016
I can't say I'm awed, but I think this author has potential.
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