Interstitial by Ann Somerville
Title: Interstitial
Author: Ann Somerville
Type: Sci fi, somerville, fiction, action, novella, e-book
Slash: Male slash
Length: 91 pg (on PDF)
Rating: 4 Stars
Blurb: Love triangles. Alien monsters. Planetary war. Just another day in space.
Sebastien ven Hester, decorated war hero and captain of the sentient cargo ship Naurus, can face any danger-except his own feelings. Jason North, his pilot, finds out the hard way that Seb’s not ready for a relationship after his recent divorce. And Jatila Kan, their engineer, discovers her feelings for North aren’t returned-because her lover’s pining after another man.
Not the best situation for a crew starting a three-week run across the galaxy.
But there are bigger terrors in space than their messy love triangle. A ruthless, horrifying enemy stands ready to test them to their physical and emotional limits.
Failure means certain death not only to themselves and their passengers, but to the entire planetary alliance.
I had fun with this. It was a nice interlude into another world for a brief period in time. The tension between the characters as well done though I might've wished for a bit more build up to it. I liked the way the mainly featured sex episode wasn't played out in full but bits and pieces of it were thrown in throughout the course of the story. That was a nice touch in building up the tension without going for the obvious sex obsession that seems to grip a great deal of gay fiction.
Two two points of issue where I would've liked to see something a little different or more in terms of details.
1. Being the creatures growth, and changes as the mature. I would've liked that to be a little clearer.
2. This is more of a side question. But if the war with these creatures is over and has been over for a while I assume. Why or how did Marta have notes on how to treat the vehnom? Because the way it was put made it sound like they were her personal notes not just some information or computer file on the subject that was left over from the war or whatever.
The only other thing that I thought might've been nice. Is towards the end some of the conversations between Seb and Jati. But we don't see any of that, which for me gives the ending a bit of a rushed feel. However, I feel like that with a lot of things. Which comes down to the question of what is the best way to end something.
So yeah go read and have fun. It's fun. ;)