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Cargando... The Marannpor Christie Meierz
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  kmartin802 | Jan 9, 2023 |   The love story here is gentle and not in any hurry. It takes eight years for the romance to unfold. There aren't any sex scenes, mostly just fade to black and we get the gist. Really good world building here, and Meierz establishes mood quite well. I liked the science/tech elements. There's still some fantasy elements here that aren't "sci fi" explained (empathic abilities, for one), but most things that could be taken as magic have a science/tech explanation that was plausible to me. I will continue on with this series. (  ) leesalogic | Jan 1, 2013 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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WINNER of the 2013 Prism Award for Futuristic Romance "A beautifully realized story that proves that politically driven space opera and tender love stories do not have to be mutually exclusive." Kirkus Reviews "For anyone who enjoys tightly written, wonderfully imaginative Science Fiction wrapped with romance, this one is a must " InDTale Magazine A story that will appeal to fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Zenna Henderson, The Marann recounts one woman's experience on a world where everyone can read her emotions. Marianne Woolsey is a high school Spanish teacher in rural Iowa, when Earth Central Command decides her linguistic talents would be better exercised if she spent 26 years teaching the daughter and heir of an alien ruler on a planet 24 light years from Earth. Now she's alone on a planet of aliens so humanlike that she has to keep telling herself her student's noble father is just her boss. Handsome - and deadly - the Sural has ruled his province and led his planet far longer than he can admit to his daughter's human tutor. He hides much more from the space-faring races of the Trade Alliance than he is willing to reveal. What he doesn't want Central Command to know, he has to conceal from Marianne, but Marianne is concealing her own secrets from him - and as an empath, he knows it. The Marann is a sweet romance. Might not be suitable for young teens. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Marianne arrives to find a world very different than her own. Outwardly, it looks like a medieval civilization. But her opinion quickly changes as she learns more about the people, and especially the Sural who rules the largest area on the planet and is the supreme ruler of all other areas. She enjoys the challenge of learning new languages but misses human contact despite her weekly calls to the ambassadorial ship in orbit around the planet.
Marianne has a past trauma in her life which is readily apparent to the empaths who surround her, and which makes it difficult for her to realize that the Sural is falling in love with her. This is very much a "slow burn" romance. She's on the planet for 8 years before any sort of romance begins that she recognizes.
And while she is falling in love, the humans who are in orbit are getting more and more anxious to find out about the aliens who live on the planet and threaten to pull her out to drain her of everything she's learned but not told them about.
But the aliens have been keeping a number of secrets and they aren't willing to share them with Earth's Central Command. Nor are they willing to surrender a woman who has bonded with their leader.
This was a fun space opera and romance. (