This is a Sci-Fi Romance story. As the title leads us to expect, the science part of it revolves around mental interconnection, and this leads to a few passionate scenes. However, they concentrate on the emotions in a tasteful way, a pleasant departure from the anatomically correct orgasm recitals many Romance writers deem essential.

The first hundred pages or so is a Sci-Fi version of a Romance novel. It’s all about two people meeting and falling in love. But everything happens inside their heads, because they are physically several light-years apart. This means the Romantic conflict takes precedence. At this point, the authorities catch onto the situation, and the conflict switches to external, with a more Sci-Fi slant. That conflict, too, has a partial resolution, and the story takes on a Spy Thriller aspect. The ending ties it all together, so the technique is a success.

What struck me about the book was the smoothness of the writing. It’s a pleasant change from the usual standard in self-publishing, but I couldn’t help but feel at times that the discussion was going on for too long and not really saying anything. Part of the pleasure of reading an author with a distinctive writing style is the communication with a real person, and by the end of the story, we feel we know something about the author as well.

I have always thought that the author should fade into the background and not interfere with the communication between the readers and the characters, but now I realize that too bland a writing style can lose reader interest as well.

An entertaining blend of genres with a bit too much ‘filler’ material.

Four stars.