Science Fiction Romance
Breath of Life is the re-telling of Beauty and the Beast
using a Science Fiction background. I have read several books recently where story line of a
fairy tales is used. Some like
Cinder take that tale and give it an unexpected twist. Others just use part of the premise in
the story. Breath of Life does
neither of those. Christine Pope
uses all of the main points in Beauty and the Beast in Breath of Life. The location is what makes it Science Fiction. Breath of Life takes
place on Lathvin IV, a planet settled by two different races, humans and the
Zhore. The planet was still in the
autmosphere-building stages and the life of the homesteaders was hard.
Anika’s family was one of those homesteaders. One of the Zhore was their nearest
neighbor. Everything changed when
Anika’s Father is late coming home.
From there you can guess the rest of the story. The facts are the same only the
location has changed.
I enjoyed reading Breath of Life. It is novella length and there were no surprises. The writing was good and the two main
characters were well developed. If
you are looking for a light SFR story try Breath of Life.
Dark Valentine Press published Breath of Life by Christine
Pope in 2011.
1 comment:
Sounds good. Glad you enjoyed it.
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