Moonfire

By Anne Clarke

Futuristic Romance: Newly elected as Ambassador to the infant colony of Treaine, Alex Mariltar has been ordered to take a wife from a race not his own. Rejecting the marriage choices of the Coalition,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759905347
• ISBN13: 9780759905344
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Moonfire

I thought the book was well written, and I just loved the delima of the heroine. I did not figure out the plot till then end, and I was surprised at the ending.

Fun Futuristic Romance

I was excited to see that the sequel to Moonfire has finally been published and decided to read Moonfire again before jumping into the sequel. Once again Anne Clarke took me to an exotic future where two people from different worlds fall in love. I'm a big fan of futuristic romances and always snap them up whenever I find them. Some concentrate on world building at the expense of the romance while others are romances with a bare bones future world. Anne Clarke achieves a good balance between romance and world building and has some laugh out loud humorous scenes. I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book and am looking forward to reading the sequel StarJumpers Bride, which is published under the name J.A. Clarke.

What a wonderful suprise!

I love paranormal/futuristic romances but I am very picky and rarely find new authors that I like but Anne Clark has just been added to my list! I won't write a storyline for this book as others have done so but I thought the book was well done. I will be looking for more books in the future from this author!

Good Sci Fi Romance!

Alex Mariltar, third son of the High Lord of Mariltar, was ready to live his dream. Long ago, the clans had all traded and lived in peace in the Crestar System, but jealousy, greed and war drove the great families apart. Alex has been made ambassador of Treaine, a beautiful planet with a new colony that will become the example of the peaceful harmony that the Crestar System will be able to enjoy once again - if Alex can get all of the other races to get along, that is. The one snag in his plan is that he must marry a woman of a race not his own. Alex did not care for any of the Coalition's choices and didn't really want to get married soon. Still, he couldn't help but remember the beautiful woman he had helped a few months ago. Too bad that he never got the chance to learn who she was...Joanna Chase was an Earthwoman serving as an negotiator on a space ship near Treaine. She was in the middle of some very touchy negotiations when the handsome hunk she had run into before kidnapped her and said that he was going to marry her! She refused, of course, but she couldn't get anyone to listen to her and get her out of this mess. All they kept talking about was the Match Key and how the computer had said that Alex and Joanna would be a good match. Hah! What the heck did a computer know? Joanna understood the sensitive situation that Alex was in on Treaine, but she knew that she just didn't have what it took to be an ambassador's wife. She resisted Alex at every opportunity, but, when Alex finally coaxed her into sharing his bed, sparks really flew. Joanna was falling in love with Alex, but she was still determined to escape the colony and go somewhere far away where he would never find her. She was convinced that Alex would find someone better suited to his new position than she. But she had no idea that she was being watched by a secret society with magic powers who were intent on resurrecting old grievances and setting the clans at war against each other as in the past. Joanna was an integral part of their plan because every fool could see how much the new ambassador cared for his wife - every fool except Joanna...Moonfire was a good science fiction/romance novel and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything spectacular. It is a character driven book and so much of the story is focused on the two main characters and the other people around them, but they lived in a fascinating world with many different kinds of peoples that was interesting to learn about. I did feel that the author introduced some aspects of the story to give it a more fantastic feel that detracted rather than added to the story, though, as she kept throwing weird things in at the end to move the story along that just didn't fit. I also was a bit frustrated at the two main characters. They had the same argument over and over in the book and every time they came to an understanding the same thing would happen again and then they wouldn't know how to fix it. I would have

Don't Pass This By

This e-book was a nice surprise. It is well written, has sympathetic characters and a strong, developed plot. If you like romances written by Stefanie Laurens you will certainly enjoy this e-book, even though it is not a historical but futuristic romance. This is a character-driven romance, by the way, with the setting being secondary to the evolving relationship. For a frame of reference, this is a better book than the time-travel books written by Nora Roberts, and her books are never "bad". So, again, if you like the writting style of Stefanie Laurens and Nora Roberts, I recommend this e-book.