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Published: May 26, 2012
Words: 85,658 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780986935732
Short description
Ice trucker Raina Bowen and Wizard—the sexy, secretive stranger who's hitched a ride with her—are in a race for their lives, trying to outrun rival truckers, ice pirates, and a megalomaniac bent on their destruction. Trouble's found them, and there's nowhere left to run.Extended description
In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She's spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and haul her load of grain to Gladow Station—but trouble finds her in the form of a sexy stranger called Wizard. He has the trucking pass she needs, and she has to drag him out of a brawl with the very people she's trying to hide from in order to get it. She may have rescued him, but Raina's not foolish enough to see Wizard as anything close to helpless. He's hard and honed and full of secrets—secrets that may destroy them both. As they race across the Waste, trying to outrun rival truckers, ice pirates, and the powerful man bent on their destruction, Raina's forced to admit that trouble's found her. And this time, there's nowhere left to run.Tags
romance, dystopia, action adventure, post apocalyptic, sci fi, futuristic romance, dystopian, sci fi romance, action adventure romance, eve silver, dystopian romance, post apocalyptic romance, eve keninAvailable ebook reading formats
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Reviews
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Review by:
S Walker
on Nov. 12, 2012 :
I really enjoyed DRIVEN, right from hearing the premise. I mean, what's not to like about romance meets Ice Road Truckers? I thought this was a great concept because the very landscape provides conflict and tension. In Ice Road Truckers, one wrong move and you sink your rig in Arctic waters. In DRIVEN, one wrong move and your life is ended by the gang of pirate-raider bad guys.
DRIVEN is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where a new, icy continent has formed and supplies have to be sent to remote areas by truck. But these are no ordinary trucks. These are cabins on wheels-- with sci-fi inspired weapons. And then put a young woman behind the wheel? Awesome!
Raina Bowen is just trying to trek her haul to her destination, when she ends up in trouble. She supposed to meet a guy named Wizard, who will give her the trucking pass she needs to complete her run. But things go awry when he ends up in a brawl and she has to rescue him. Matters get a whole lot worse when he doesn't have the trucking pass, and it turns out she's not hauling the load she thought she was. Raina and Wizard end up on the run from pirate-raiders.
Love ensues. But it's a tricky romance because Raina has trust issues, and Wizard is very emotionally closed-- almost robot like. How they end up falling for each other amid All This is a story you won't want to miss-- especially if you're a reader of romance or urban fantasy and you're looking for something a little different.
Rating: A-
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Review by:
S Walker
on Nov. 12, 2012 :
(no rating)
Read more reviews at http://kaleidoscopereviews.com
I really enjoyed DRIVEN, right from hearing the premise. I mean, what's not to like about romance meets Ice Road Truckers? I thought this was a great concept because the very landscape provides conflict and tension. In Ice Road Truckers, one wrong move and you sink your rig in Arctic waters. In DRIVEN, one wrong move and your life is ended by the gang of pirate-raider bad guys.
DRIVEN is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where a new, icy continent has formed and supplies have to be sent to remote areas by truck. But these are no ordinary trucks. These are cabins on wheels-- with sci-fi inspired weapons. And then put a young woman behind the wheel? Awesome!
Raina Bowen is just trying to trek her haul to her destination, when she ends up in trouble. She supposed to meet a guy named Wizard, who will give her the trucking pass she needs to complete her run. But things go awry when he ends up in a brawl and she has to rescue him. Matters get a whole lot worse when he doesn't have the trucking pass, and it turns out she's not hauling the load she thought she was. Raina and Wizard end up on the run from pirate-raiders.
Love ensues. But it's a tricky romance because Raina has trust issues, and Wizard is very emotionally closed-- almost robot like. How they end up falling for each other amid All This is a story you won't want to miss-- especially if you're a reader of romance or urban fantasy and you're looking for something a little different.
Rating: A-
(reviewed long after purchase)
Review by:
Francis Porretto
on May 28, 2012 :
I had high hopes for this book. It has an intriguing premise and an original setting, neither of which I had previously seen in contemporary SF. The free sample displays writerly skill. All right, it features yet another tough-chick protagonist, but I've been there myself, and anyway, they're in vogue just now. So I headed into it with high expectations: say about 8 on the famous 0 to 10 scale.
What I got rates about a 5.
Protagonist Raina is implausible: far too emotional given her occupation and her upbringing. The other characters, including the critical figure of Wizard, are two-dimensional at best. Antagonist Duncan Bane is a particular disappointment, so monochromatically villainous that I was surprised not to encounter a scene in which he fricassees babies for breakfast. But no one in the Marquee group really gets enough development.
The plot telegraphs each and every one of its critical steps. Around the halfway point, I started plot-gaming the story: predicting developments before reading of them. I don't remember being wrong about anything of significance.
Stylistically, the story is competently if not quite impressively told. My only real quarrel is with the love scenes, which are both bright purple and unacceptably crude: just this side of "Roughly he thrust his throbbing tool into her quivering quim." However, I got really tired of the word "frig." That happens to mean "masturbate," in case anyone is unaware of it. A futuristic romance should display more ingenuity about swearing.
If there was a theme beyond "Amor vincit omnia," I couldn't detect it.
Nevertheless, I'm awarding three stars. I know that by Smashwords's standards I'm an exceptionally tough reviewer, and I don't want to mislead anyone on that account. There's enough entertainment in "Driven" to justify its price, and the writing is almost free of technical errors. I don't regret having purchased or read it; it's just that I was hoping for much more given the author's obvious talent and chops.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)