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Oasis #2
Shooting Star
When his ship crash-lands on a primitive world, pirate Ruben, haunted by the ghosts of his dark past, finds salvation in the arms of a mysterious beauty who vows to heal the tormented soul. Original.
339 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2006
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Colby Hodge
9 books13 followersI've always been a writer. Ever since I could remember my biggest desire was to put words to paper. Finally my dreams of publication came true in 2002 with the release of Chase The Wind, the first book in my historical family saga. But I've also looked to the stars since I was a small girl. Which led to my writing of Futuristic Action Romance under the pen name Colby Hodge. And since I've got a knack for relating to teens, I also enjoy writing for them under the name Kassy Tayler.
And just so you know a bit about me. I've been married for several years to the man of my dreams. We've also raised two exceptional sons and enjoy life in the shadow of Pilot Mountain in NC where we share our home with a long haired dauschund and a cat who thinks she's the queen of the world.
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January 20, 2011
I had read this before but had forgotten almost all of it. A very nice story of a pilot who crashes his space ship on a primitive planet while searching for his brother. He is looked after by a slave woman and her son. This story takes place mostly on the planet so the world building aspect is more important that the gritty space tech aspect. But that part is at least addressed and the space flight details have been thought out.
The story involves drug runners and a race of mind controlling witches that have been in other books in the series. I like the details of the space faring civilizations that have been thought out and set up. Then different stories in the story arc can be told within the framework.
The romance between the pilot and the slave woman was very sweet. Heat level was very low. But the romance was complete and believable.
The plot made sense and the writing is well done. The story moved right along and did not have any dragging parts.
Recommended to SFR lovers.
The story involves drug runners and a race of mind controlling witches that have been in other books in the series. I like the details of the space faring civilizations that have been thought out and set up. Then different stories in the story arc can be told within the framework.
The romance between the pilot and the slave woman was very sweet. Heat level was very low. But the romance was complete and believable.
The plot made sense and the writing is well done. The story moved right along and did not have any dragging parts.
Recommended to SFR lovers.
February 21, 2023
The hero has always been a free spirit and he's used this freedom to sleep his way through a large portion of the female population. His smuggling expeditions are going well until he is accused of murdering his father and a bounty is put on his head. Plus, he's suddenly having strange visions of his biological brother after 12 years of separation and the man is in danger. The hero eagerly goes to the last transmitted signal in search for his brother only to be shot down upon entering the planet.
That's where the heroine finds him. Life for her is hard and it's only getting harder. She came to this world to be a slave only to be given to her master’s son as a sex slave. Their union may have disgusted the heroine but it produced her son and she can't bring herself to entirely regret it. She'll do anything for her child. She'll suffer the master’s beatings and work her hands to the bone to cook, clean and sell her wares in town for whatever money she can get to buy her child clothing and a treat once in a while. She knows her son understands the bruising on her face and how she gets it and she hates that his young life has been filled with so much pain and unhappiness. This is why she strives to provide him with whatever joy she can even if it means buying a model spaceship and risking another beating because of it.
When she sees a spacecraft fall from the sky she can't help but search out any survivors. She finds the hero badly wounded and tends to him the best she can before fleeing back to the house else she risks her master’s anger. The next day, the stranger emerges from his craft and is discovered at the stream drinking water by her master. It's the first time she defies him by refusing to assist in the murder of the stranger and receives a bleeding lip for her disobedience. But she's able to take the wounded man into the house and care for his injuries.
When the hero awakens, he takes in the heroine's beaten face and the general fear in her eyes and knows she's in trouble. He can see the eager joy in her sons’ eyes at the chance of having a male figure in his life that won't beat his mother. Perhaps, he'll even take him and his mother away from this unhappy place. But the heroine can't risk this inevitable disappointment and encourages the hero to distance himself from her son so that the pain of when the hero must leave will be less to the young boy. Only, the hero doesn't want to leave without her. Too bad he doesn't get the chance of offer this salvation as her child is kidnapped by the people holding his brother captive. The hero's attempt at a rescue fails and the heroine is taken as well. Lost in the torture at the hands of an evil woman, the heroine fights daily for the life of herself and her boy-daring to hope that the hero will find them and save them before it's too late.
Up until the ending I was totally in love with this book. It has the typical playboy hero only he is more subdued and less 'charming' as I originally thought he was going to be. It has the tortured heroine who lives in constant terror of the master who beats her and the threat that she will be taken from the son be the evil man who lives down the road. She had an internal fire that became evident when speaking with the hero or when something endangered her child. She would fight to the death to protect him. The first bit of the story was quite lovely actually. It had the hero being tended by the heroine for the wound she received in the crash. It had the hero showing attention and affection to the young boy who instantly stole my heart as well as a tenderness to the boy's mother who obviously hasn't received all that much tenderness in her life. I liked the family feel to their interactions despite the hesitation both the hero and heroine had towards imagining their relationship could have a future. What lost me was the ending. It was a mess of different plotlines and it felt like I was missing something from the first book in the series that was critical to understanding what was happening in this one. The hero was trying to find his brother who was a slave to the psychic people who are searching for the hero's friends and their children. He was also dealing with the kidnapping of the young boy and then later with the kidnapping of the heroine. It was just all sort of meshed in together and I felt lost in the sea of conflicts. The writing style was good, however, and if not for the fact that I was lost towards the end, I can say I didn't mind this story. It wasn't perfect though and there were things that bothered me (for example the awkward sex scene that showed the hero and heroine sleeping together directly after the son was kidnapped- kind of felt like a 'insert sex scene here' scenario).
That's where the heroine finds him. Life for her is hard and it's only getting harder. She came to this world to be a slave only to be given to her master’s son as a sex slave. Their union may have disgusted the heroine but it produced her son and she can't bring herself to entirely regret it. She'll do anything for her child. She'll suffer the master’s beatings and work her hands to the bone to cook, clean and sell her wares in town for whatever money she can get to buy her child clothing and a treat once in a while. She knows her son understands the bruising on her face and how she gets it and she hates that his young life has been filled with so much pain and unhappiness. This is why she strives to provide him with whatever joy she can even if it means buying a model spaceship and risking another beating because of it.
When she sees a spacecraft fall from the sky she can't help but search out any survivors. She finds the hero badly wounded and tends to him the best she can before fleeing back to the house else she risks her master’s anger. The next day, the stranger emerges from his craft and is discovered at the stream drinking water by her master. It's the first time she defies him by refusing to assist in the murder of the stranger and receives a bleeding lip for her disobedience. But she's able to take the wounded man into the house and care for his injuries.
When the hero awakens, he takes in the heroine's beaten face and the general fear in her eyes and knows she's in trouble. He can see the eager joy in her sons’ eyes at the chance of having a male figure in his life that won't beat his mother. Perhaps, he'll even take him and his mother away from this unhappy place. But the heroine can't risk this inevitable disappointment and encourages the hero to distance himself from her son so that the pain of when the hero must leave will be less to the young boy. Only, the hero doesn't want to leave without her. Too bad he doesn't get the chance of offer this salvation as her child is kidnapped by the people holding his brother captive. The hero's attempt at a rescue fails and the heroine is taken as well. Lost in the torture at the hands of an evil woman, the heroine fights daily for the life of herself and her boy-daring to hope that the hero will find them and save them before it's too late.
Up until the ending I was totally in love with this book. It has the typical playboy hero only he is more subdued and less 'charming' as I originally thought he was going to be. It has the tortured heroine who lives in constant terror of the master who beats her and the threat that she will be taken from the son be the evil man who lives down the road. She had an internal fire that became evident when speaking with the hero or when something endangered her child. She would fight to the death to protect him. The first bit of the story was quite lovely actually. It had the hero being tended by the heroine for the wound she received in the crash. It had the hero showing attention and affection to the young boy who instantly stole my heart as well as a tenderness to the boy's mother who obviously hasn't received all that much tenderness in her life. I liked the family feel to their interactions despite the hesitation both the hero and heroine had towards imagining their relationship could have a future. What lost me was the ending. It was a mess of different plotlines and it felt like I was missing something from the first book in the series that was critical to understanding what was happening in this one. The hero was trying to find his brother who was a slave to the psychic people who are searching for the hero's friends and their children. He was also dealing with the kidnapping of the young boy and then later with the kidnapping of the heroine. It was just all sort of meshed in together and I felt lost in the sea of conflicts. The writing style was good, however, and if not for the fact that I was lost towards the end, I can say I didn't mind this story. It wasn't perfect though and there were things that bothered me (for example the awkward sex scene that showed the hero and heroine sleeping together directly after the son was kidnapped- kind of felt like a 'insert sex scene here' scenario).
November 9, 2008
Shooting Star is actually the second book in the Oasis series by Colby Hodge. However, you don't really need to read the first book, Stargazer, in order to follow this one.
Shooting Star features the starship pilot, Reuben, a devil-may-care, smuggling, prince who was disowned from his family years ago. Suddenly Reuben's having dreams that his little brother, Stefan, whom he hasn't seen since leaving his family as a young teenager, is in serious trouble. As Reuben nears the planet where Stefan was last seen, a mysterious cloaked ship shoots him down.
Tess is a slave and has been as long as she can remember. She hates her master, but loves her son, Boone, so she lives life day-by-day . . . until Reuben's starship falls out of the sky practically on top of her.
I like futuristic style romances and this one didn't disappoint. I loved the integration of a child (Boone) into the story. I had read the first book of this series, Stargazer, but it was at least two to three years ago. The heroine isn't the type to kick asses & take names, but she's strong in other ways and though I do like the ass-kicking/name taking, I also really enjoyed this more "traditionl" version of a futuristic romance.
Similar authors:
- Susan Grant's Otherworldly Men series
- Catherine Spangler's Sentinel series & Shielder series
- Susan Kearney's Heat series
- Patti O'Shea's Jarved 9 series
Shooting Star features the starship pilot, Reuben, a devil-may-care, smuggling, prince who was disowned from his family years ago. Suddenly Reuben's having dreams that his little brother, Stefan, whom he hasn't seen since leaving his family as a young teenager, is in serious trouble. As Reuben nears the planet where Stefan was last seen, a mysterious cloaked ship shoots him down.
Tess is a slave and has been as long as she can remember. She hates her master, but loves her son, Boone, so she lives life day-by-day . . . until Reuben's starship falls out of the sky practically on top of her.
I like futuristic style romances and this one didn't disappoint. I loved the integration of a child (Boone) into the story. I had read the first book of this series, Stargazer, but it was at least two to three years ago. The heroine isn't the type to kick asses & take names, but she's strong in other ways and though I do like the ass-kicking/name taking, I also really enjoyed this more "traditionl" version of a futuristic romance.
Similar authors:
- Susan Grant's Otherworldly Men series
- Catherine Spangler's Sentinel series & Shielder series
- Susan Kearney's Heat series
- Patti O'Shea's Jarved 9 series
October 2, 2012
Well, this is a solid 3 as opposed to a polite 2.5. The characters/plot didn't make me twitchy.
Still, there are things that keep it from rating higher. Newfs - Large black canines?! In some distant galaxy/time? Riiiiight. Also, a heifer who produces milk. Uh... I'm pretty sure that under natural circumstances, that isn't likely. Yeah; we have large black canines called Newfs, cows and draft horses. Also brandy and wine. Hmmm...
Something that I didn't comment on in the first book of the series - a futuristic set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away should not have somewhat common Earth names like say, Michael, Agatha, etc.
Details man, details.
Still, there are things that keep it from rating higher. Newfs - Large black canines?! In some distant galaxy/time? Riiiiight. Also, a heifer who produces milk. Uh... I'm pretty sure that under natural circumstances, that isn't likely. Yeah; we have large black canines called Newfs, cows and draft horses. Also brandy and wine. Hmmm...
Something that I didn't comment on in the first book of the series - a futuristic set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away should not have somewhat common Earth names like say, Michael, Agatha, etc.
Details man, details.
September 3, 2010
For the first sci fi romance style I didn't hate. I also didn't feel like there was a whole lot of content. I left the book not really knowing much about this futuristic world, although this is the second book in this series. I gave it 4 stars because it held my interest and made me want to read more
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January 9, 2010Romance,SF
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