Haven by Jessica Marting
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
One stupid decision leaves Cressida stranded on Haven, an uninhabited planet on the edge of nowhere.
Haven
But it isn’t totally empty.
And Lukas, the cyborg living there in secret, is fascinated with her and has no intention of letting her leave.
Misfits love story!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤☺️🥰
The heroine: Cressida – she had booked passage on a luxury starship, hoping that would help with her case of Murphy’s Law which seemed to follow her everywhere. But as per her usual luck, the ship broke down and needed to land on the planet Haven, which is nearly abandoned and said to be off-limits to civilians. The planet was home to an abandoned military base and spaceport as well as a bunch of dangerous flora and fauna, but no sentient beings are reported to be there.
The Hero: Lukas – six years ago, Lukas had escaped the Zone military and landed on Haven, which is just outside of Zone space. He figured the war was probably over, but knowing Admiral Best, he could never be too sure. So, when a starship lands on the planet, Lukas is able to interface his personal hardware with that of the control tower to find out that the ship was a passenger ship which only landed for some quick repairs.
The Story: – Cressida decided that as long as they were stuck on Haven while the repairs to the ship were being made, she would sneak off the starship and take some Holo’s (holographic videos or pictures). Though after jumping from the ship to a tree, she got covered in Sap, ended up falling into a plant and passed out while the starship left the planet.
“They’re gone. It was a relief to Lukas, but a bitter one. It was better to be alone on Haven, and free than a product of the Zone’s military, built and paid for.”
“And he had been built, constructed by the galaxy’s finest surgeons and overseen by a Fleet admiral with cool, detached precision. The most expensive weapon the Zone would ever produce. Lukas would never forgive them for that.”
Lukas was grumpy and didn’t want to talk about himself at all. He had some surprises in his history. He was born human and became a cyborg for the military, though he really never had a choice in the matter, and he wasn’t treated as a human anymore after that, especially by his father. He came from a world where he had no choices. Cressida, though she was a free person, didn’t have it all that much better. She comes from a world where she worked 12–16-hour days to pay exorbitant fees for a tiny apartment and her electricity and utility bills. Though she did splurge on a cheap vacation once a year. Overall, I liked the story and how these two misfits found each other and became friends and lovers.
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