5/20/2023 0 Comments Homebound by lydia hope![]() ‘Human caregiver for alien experimentation victim’ is its own subgenre of SF romance, but Homebound’s prison setting makes it stand out. This is a book with writing issues carried by plot and character, but one that SF romance fans will find worth a read. But as Simon gets better, other things, including Gemma’s living situation and working conditions, get worse. ![]() Amidst so much misery, Gemma finds meaning in treating him with dignity, and under her care, he starts to make a recovery. A surprise reassignment to the third floor, where the alien prisoners are housed, leads to her encounter with Simon in cell 35 – a filth-encrusted, unspeaking, desiccated male on the verge of death. In The City, an urban ruin that reads like a Dickensian slum, Gemma works for a pittance scrubbing prison cells. Science Fiction romances tend to battle sequences and spaceships, but Homebound by Lydia Hope is set on a dystopian Earth. ![]()
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