Don't mind stories that add an extra element to it. This story was based on the remake of the Star Trek movie. The additional character is supposed to be the love interest of Spock, which you don't get to see for quite a long time. I guess the author was to a slow burn type of romance for the story, which I don't mind at all.
But what kills the story is that the lead female is furious at star fleet and her father, who abandoned her and her mother when the girl was right. She finds that her father survives the destruction of Vulcan along with her young half-brother. He tries to talk to her and acts like it is no big deal which in Vera’s mind is which, in my opinion, I can’t blame her for being angry. She goes seventeen chapters on being mad at just life in general (which has been pretty shitty to her), and when she finds out that the only man she’s ever thought of as a father figure has overlooked her puts someone else as the new captain of the ship it finally breaks her.
Now Spock has never, in the length of the seventh chapters, treated her like he sees her as anything but more than someone to get in his way. Heck, she asks him why he pushes her out the way every time she’s speaking, and he tells her, and this is me quoting him, “you were in my way.”
By the time I got to the bottom of chapter seventeen I was very disappointed. Kirk knowing she was upset and at this point didn’t like him and really didn’t like Spock tells he that he wouldn’t stop her from leaving but he wants her to talk to Spock before she does to check in on him. (Which she does because let’s face it she was pushed into it not only by Kirk but some how by Spock prime who we all know was the mystery person on the ice planet.)
She does and with one tiny sentence she’s all okay I’ll stay. It’s not oh I’ve liked you all this time or a sentence saying be better then what everyone thinks of you. Nope It’s “actually, I want you to stay.” He doesn’t give her anything to gone on with why he wants her to stay and she’s like I your not lying on which he replied Vulcan’s can’t lie.
That alone ruins the story for me. I mean if I spent that last so many years hating how I was being treated by not only family (her dad not her mother) but a place that wants to lock me up because I didn’t want to stay (which the story is also vague on..and yes I know it talks about how she stole a ship and a few other reasons but the story really doesn’t go into a good detail of why she’s like that) I wouldn’t just accept a few words to keep me from leaving I would want something concrete that’s why I couldn’t finish the story
Family drama 7/10
Tragic background 4/10
Love interest 2/10
Story plot 2/10
Over all this story needs an extreme make over because if this is meant to be a romance story then I’m a monkeys uncle. Because what I’ve read so fare lacks any potential To be a good romance story. And those who can’t see the problems with it need to rethink there views of romance because this story is for the lack of better terms sucks on a lot of levels
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