Ash’s review of Enemy Games by Marcella Burnard
Futuristic Romance published by Berkley 03 May 11
Enemy Games left me confused way more than once and that is not what I want with a book. After loving Enemy Within so much, I’m disappointed.
I’m not sure if it’s because it has been so long since I read Enemy Within, or if it’s just the jumpy plot. It seems like as soon as I start to understand what is going on, they move on to something else.We start off trying to find Jayleia’s father and we end with weird alien cocoons and Damen and Jayleia helping stop an alien civil war. I think it’s supposed to all come together, but I’m left with a headache trying to get it to all make sense.
Jayleia and Damen are interesting right away and I wanted to know more about them. I feel like I never get to know who they are, especially Damen. We get glimpses of what they have gone through and we’re told some things, but it’s given as just more facts. Even their romance is lacking. They don’t spend nearly enough time together without fighting off enemies, and the way Damen and Jayleia are almost forced together felt like a convenient way to get them to love each other faster. The plot seems to take over the story and the characters.
I am not sure if there are going to be any more books, and while I didn’t love this one, I really hope there are. Some things are still unanswered and I definitely want to know how it all turns out.
Grade: C+
Summary:
Kidnapped while combating a devastating plague, Jayleia Durante fights to resist the attractive Major Damen Sindrivik, an officer from a rival government’s spy corps. But with her spymaster father missing, and mercenaries hot on her trail, Jayleia must join forces with the magnetic, charming and manipulative spy. She must see past her desire and remember that his single-minded agenda is for the protection of the empire – not her or her people.
Damen knows a shadowy network of traitors has allied with the violent Chekydran, and that Jayleia’s father holds the key to dismantling that web. She becomes his only lead in a circuitous round of hide and seek and despite their opposing sides, he can’t resist her. Too bad his instincts tell him Jayleia is lying to him.
Now Jayleia and Damen must find the love to match their passion and end the war or they’ll become the prey of the traitors they stalk, and one species’ civil war will consume the galaxy.
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