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As I mentioned in my review of "After Dark," the first half of this duet, I was kind of annoyed that I had to read another book in order to get the rest of the story. My feelings didn't really change after I finished this. I continue to feel that this is one of Jaynce Castle's weaker stories by any psuedonym and her weakest under this one. I'd say it took her a couple of books to get into writing science fiction, but with the possible exception that she didn't lay the groundwork very well (in the first book, she told us so little about the world that if I hadn't read later books, I can't imagine it would hae made sense and in this book, she started some seroius information dumping), the world building and speculative elements were sound.

My biggest problem with these two books is that the chemistry between Emmett and Lydia didn't work for me. In this book, they both start out already knowing they love the other and the big climax is that they finally admit it -- what I call a quest for the three magic words romance (not my favorite). I found the sex scenes tedious and largely irrelevant.

I hate being so hard on this book, especially because if my fairness meter were on, I couldn't give this below 3 stars -- I've given 2 stars to much worse books -- but I've come to expect more from this author and life's not always fair. :=)

I recommend skipping the first 2 books in the Harmony series and maybe coming back to them if you've got time later on.