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Enemy Beloved
Far from home, Ilithyia searches for a way to return to the stars.
Dragomir barely survived the crash. His ship did not. Blind and maimed, he must rely on a rescuer he does not trust.
They both have their secrets. And their missions.
Dragomir barely survived the crash. His ship did not. Blind and maimed, he must rely on a rescuer he does not trust.
They both have their secrets. And their missions.
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Published January 1, 2019
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June 10, 2021
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Ilithyia is a scavenger on the remote jungle planet of Turanna. She finds a crashed ship and a robotic being, that had been thrown from the ship. She decides to salvage it, using a blowtorch to saw through the head, but before she gets too much past the surface, it moves, and she realizes it’s not a robot but a person and he’s still alive, and her blowtorch has just destroyed where his eyes should have been. She takes him with her back to an abandoned military facility that she had been using as her base, and treats him as best as she can.
Elite soldier Dragomir knows he is in enemy hands, even though his eyes are gone. But his loss of sight as well as his ruined leg and partial arm are only temporary since the nanites running through his body will eventually rebuild everything, given time. But first, he needs to know just who Ilithyia is, who rules her planet, and he needs to evade the people who caused the crash of his ship, though her light healing touch, though unneeded is warm and inviting.
This was a bit slow to start. The beginning felt like it was bogged down in technobabble and it was difficult to wade through it. But then once she takes his helmet off, it felt like the story got easier to follow and sucked me in. I didn’t really follow all of the different factions on the planet. There was the council, her group, and at least one more group mentioned. The heart of the story is the relationship between the two leads as she tries to tend to him and heal him. While he’s trying to be patient with her outdated technology, but he’s willing to put up with it while he learns more about his captor/doctor, and finds he likes her soft touches as she tends to him. The moment when he acts on his want of her, felt rushed since he just grabs her, but then that part would appeal to the ladies who like the stereotypical alphas and dominating (I’m not one of them, but it’s still a fun romance as I patiently wait for the other shoe to drop in this Romeo and Juliet tale for her to realize that she’s tending to an enemy). I liked that there did feel like there was vulnerability on his side as well, not just because of his missing sight which didn’t seem like that much of a handicap to him, just a frustration since it meant he had to guess what she looked like. I loved that he was afraid she’d notice his fast healing or other details about him, and realize he was the enemy and turn on him, ending anything between them. After finishing this fun story, I hunted through Ms Foster’s books to see if there was any continuation to the story. Sadly, I couldn’t find one. The main book that this is a spin off novella of, picks up with a different couple. Too bad since it seemed like Ilithyia’s story wasn’t done yet.
Ilithyia is a scavenger on the remote jungle planet of Turanna. She finds a crashed ship and a robotic being, that had been thrown from the ship. She decides to salvage it, using a blowtorch to saw through the head, but before she gets too much past the surface, it moves, and she realizes it’s not a robot but a person and he’s still alive, and her blowtorch has just destroyed where his eyes should have been. She takes him with her back to an abandoned military facility that she had been using as her base, and treats him as best as she can.
Elite soldier Dragomir knows he is in enemy hands, even though his eyes are gone. But his loss of sight as well as his ruined leg and partial arm are only temporary since the nanites running through his body will eventually rebuild everything, given time. But first, he needs to know just who Ilithyia is, who rules her planet, and he needs to evade the people who caused the crash of his ship, though her light healing touch, though unneeded is warm and inviting.
This was a bit slow to start. The beginning felt like it was bogged down in technobabble and it was difficult to wade through it. But then once she takes his helmet off, it felt like the story got easier to follow and sucked me in. I didn’t really follow all of the different factions on the planet. There was the council, her group, and at least one more group mentioned. The heart of the story is the relationship between the two leads as she tries to tend to him and heal him. While he’s trying to be patient with her outdated technology, but he’s willing to put up with it while he learns more about his captor/doctor, and finds he likes her soft touches as she tends to him. The moment when he acts on his want of her, felt rushed since he just grabs her, but then that part would appeal to the ladies who like the stereotypical alphas and dominating (I’m not one of them, but it’s still a fun romance as I patiently wait for the other shoe to drop in this Romeo and Juliet tale for her to realize that she’s tending to an enemy). I liked that there did feel like there was vulnerability on his side as well, not just because of his missing sight which didn’t seem like that much of a handicap to him, just a frustration since it meant he had to guess what she looked like. I loved that he was afraid she’d notice his fast healing or other details about him, and realize he was the enemy and turn on him, ending anything between them. After finishing this fun story, I hunted through Ms Foster’s books to see if there was any continuation to the story. Sadly, I couldn’t find one. The main book that this is a spin off novella of, picks up with a different couple. Too bad since it seemed like Ilithyia’s story wasn’t done yet.
September 19, 2023
I heard good things about this short-story from a friend. So when I got a chance to listen to it, thanks to the author's news letter, I jumped at the chance. I don't know how she captured blindness so well, and the seen in question is only like, what, a paragraph? It still made me cry.
I've listened to other authors write blind characters, and they sometimes get part of it, but she made belive that one of the characters was temporarily blind, and that he used the same techniques, I would use to move about.
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If you like stuff with blind characters, science-fiction, romance, then this is for you.
I've listened to other authors write blind characters, and they sometimes get part of it, but she made belive that one of the characters was temporarily blind, and that he used the same techniques, I would use to move about.
Join her news letter.
Get this short-story.
Read/ listen to it.
If you like stuff with blind characters, science-fiction, romance, then this is for you.
January 6, 2023
As a blind individual, I believe Foster has done a terrifice job providing the reader with an accurate perspective of someone temporarily in that state, within the package of a science-fiction romance. Anyone that likes blind romance, or romantic science-fiction, or that has already read/ listened to any of the books in the Ravages of Honor series, would no doubt enjoy this short-story, and as a consequence, joining Foster's news letter to get this short-story is highly recommended.
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