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Diana Santee, Spaceways Agent #1
Mind Guest
Diana Santee woke to find herself helpless on a starcraft bound for nowhere with all its controls destroyed. Beyond all known space she was saved by the secret outpost of an undiscovered star federation. They needed a girl like her for a desperate mission on a medieval world they were secretly probing. She fit the bill; she volunteered in gratitude. But when she became the unwanted mind guest of a terrified virgin princess, it went beyond anything her space agent training had prepared her for...
415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 6, 1984
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Sharon Green
148 books109 followersBorn and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Attended New York University and graduated with a B.A. in 1963. Married in 1963, had three sons, divorced in 1976. Raised the sons, Andy, Brian and Curtis, alone in New Jersey. Worked for AT&T as a shareowner correspondent, then as an all-around assistant in a construction company, then sold bar steel for an import firm. Left that job as assistant sales manager. I've been writing full time since 1984.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
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July 29, 2023Half-Price Books had this. Wanted to start somewhere with Sharon Green.
October 30, 2010
Have you ever read a book (or series) that you just couldn’t put down? That you felt emotionally involved in? That is how I feel reading the Diana Santee series of books. I vacillate between being either deliriously happy/excited and being really profoundly sad. It is a strange thing but I am hooked. You can access the entire series (minus the apparent last book in the series which I have not yet tracked down) and enjoy living vicariously the life of Diana Santee. She is a special agent, a hyper A, who is not only a very strong woman but also sensitive and, I don’t know, endearing woman? What woman doesn’t want to think of herself as a strong, capable woman but who also has a soft side. One where a strong man can take her in hand and keep her in line, or at the very least safe and sound? So Diana falls in love with Valdon and I would love to see more from his perspective and I am a romantic at heart, sorry, but I want to see a “happily ever after” scenario which I doubt will ever happen. What I can say is that you will read this series and be really happy/excited and at times be so sad you want to sob. I have never had a series affect me this way before. Hats’s off to Sharon Green. Please Sharon, finish or just keep adding to this series but give me more! The way the last book ends is wrong. I feel a huge let down.
December 23, 2012
This book sucked. At first i thought I was going to like it because the first fifty pages were Diana Santee's self-confident sarcasm that punctuated the dialogue made it sound kind of like a James Patterson novel. And then it got worse. Diana acted like some psychopath with multiple personalities, like a snotty little brat in the name of "pretending to be Bellna" and even when she gets put in a commoners position, she still acts like she's some big shot, when she really isn't. Then she goes into whining, sniveling prostitute mode, and then finally cold and sadistic mode.
What's even more annoying is that the book is riddled with bluffs, excuses and empty threats for not beating up her captors. She talks big, proclaiming her prowess in battle and then wilts pitifully when a man simply touches her arm. And after that, she makes up excuses about why she didn't use her so-called amazing powers of unarmed self-defense. "Oh, I COULD'VE beat him up, but I decided not to." "Oh, I COULD'VE mashed his head into the ground IF ONLY I could get my hands free from his grip." "Oh, I COULD'VE broken his kneecap, but my legs were pinned underneath." it gets so OLD.
Furthermore, I particularly didn't enjoy the storyline. She gets raped for three quarters of the book. Descriptive ones with everything going on inside her head laid out. What is this, some kind of sex book? Geez, I have other things to do besides read about someone with multiple personality disorder getting raped over and over. Sick.
I kept reading hoping it would get better, but it didn't. By the time I was close to the end, I was like, "Well, I've made it this far, might as well finish it," because I don't believing in leaving books unfinished. One may delay in its finishing for awhile, but books must always be finished. Sometimes it's a brutal policy to live by, but I stick to it. However, if you are reading this review and interested in reading it DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! I RECOMMEND IT TO NO ONE!
I hope this has been helpful to some of you and look forward to reading your comments.
What's even more annoying is that the book is riddled with bluffs, excuses and empty threats for not beating up her captors. She talks big, proclaiming her prowess in battle and then wilts pitifully when a man simply touches her arm. And after that, she makes up excuses about why she didn't use her so-called amazing powers of unarmed self-defense. "Oh, I COULD'VE beat him up, but I decided not to." "Oh, I COULD'VE mashed his head into the ground IF ONLY I could get my hands free from his grip." "Oh, I COULD'VE broken his kneecap, but my legs were pinned underneath." it gets so OLD.
Furthermore, I particularly didn't enjoy the storyline. She gets raped for three quarters of the book. Descriptive ones with everything going on inside her head laid out. What is this, some kind of sex book? Geez, I have other things to do besides read about someone with multiple personality disorder getting raped over and over. Sick.
I kept reading hoping it would get better, but it didn't. By the time I was close to the end, I was like, "Well, I've made it this far, might as well finish it," because I don't believing in leaving books unfinished. One may delay in its finishing for awhile, but books must always be finished. Sometimes it's a brutal policy to live by, but I stick to it. However, if you are reading this review and interested in reading it DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! I RECOMMEND IT TO NO ONE!
I hope this has been helpful to some of you and look forward to reading your comments.
August 9, 2014
I enjoyed this book, not as much as I enjoyed the Jalav Warrior and the Terrilian series. Similar messages regarding male chauvinist society and a Heroine who is equal to any task put to her. I must admit to feeling a little grubby and dirty reading parts of this book as there was some seriously sick sex scenes, which I felt were overdone and unnecessary, yet Sharon Green early series all have these scenes and are expected. .
My favourite parts was the revenge scenes, I was practically jumping up in sheer excitement when she began to kick arse so to speak. The reason the book is called Mind Guest is due to the introduction of another mind into Diana Santee person to help her impersonate A princess on the planet she goes too. This is what accounts for all the twist and turns in the plot.
I like Sharon Green messages in her books, although they often go hand and hand in some dark sexual bondage fantasies. I am not into these scenes, yet I do enjoy her books. It does sound like I am contradicting my self but maybe I am trying to excuse for reading novels which delve deep into dark sexual matters. I would recommend this book to Sharon Green fans or to people who enjoy unusual cult novels. I would like to think there is a feminist point to the book buts its hard to believe it strongly when there seems so much misogyny portrayed in the novel… but maybe that is what Sharon Green is trying to point out… I dam hope so or I am just a pervert !
My favourite parts was the revenge scenes, I was practically jumping up in sheer excitement when she began to kick arse so to speak. The reason the book is called Mind Guest is due to the introduction of another mind into Diana Santee person to help her impersonate A princess on the planet she goes too. This is what accounts for all the twist and turns in the plot.
I like Sharon Green messages in her books, although they often go hand and hand in some dark sexual bondage fantasies. I am not into these scenes, yet I do enjoy her books. It does sound like I am contradicting my self but maybe I am trying to excuse for reading novels which delve deep into dark sexual matters. I would recommend this book to Sharon Green fans or to people who enjoy unusual cult novels. I would like to think there is a feminist point to the book buts its hard to believe it strongly when there seems so much misogyny portrayed in the novel… but maybe that is what Sharon Green is trying to point out… I dam hope so or I am just a pervert !
October 8, 2012
A novel take on the body swap / mind transfer trope set in a SciFi setting, but when you strip away the veneer it is chick-lit with forced sex slave fantasies - something that imho devalues the heroine and limits the plot.
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January 15, 2013
Love this serie 1-13 and hope there will be more books
January 20, 2013
Adult SciFi but great stories and entertainment
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