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Finder's Keepers by Linnea Sinclair
01/06/2005 . Source: Paul Hanley 
pub: Bantam Dell. 453 page paperback. Price: $ 6.99 (US), $10.99 (CAN). ISBN: 0-553-58798-6. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.bantamdell.com and www.starfreighter.com
I should say at the outset that I enjoyed this book. I rather like my SF with the blood dripping from the bulkheads whilst this story has a deal of romance in it, but it was a good adventure story. Those who like a bit of romance in their adventures will enjoy it all the more, whilst those who do not will be able to put up with it for the story of which romance forms but a part.
The heroine, the owner and sole operator of a dilapidated space freighter, is Trilby Elliot who has landed on an uninhabited planet to make essential repairs. Whilst there, a small space fighter from the alien Sko, crashes in the nearby jungle. Whilst salvaging valuable scrap from the wreck, our heroine encounters a human survivor, albeit one from the Fharian State, which was recently at war with her own countrymen. Not that Trilby sets much store by any government or its officials who only seem to tax and over regulate traders like herself.
The story develops from there with Trilby wishing to take her repaired ship in one direction to take up a haulage contract whilst her handsome stranger of a passenger, a secretive soldier, wants to use it to impede the intentions of his enemies.
Both of these protagonists are tough, ingenious and single minded and those who like the romance element will enjoy how this develops both between these characters and with others such as Trilby's former fiancé, a wealthy individual with high political and economic family connections. He has an involvement in the galaxy threatening events which unfold.
The characters are well-rounded and not merely cardboard figures which gives the book more depth than perhaps a straight forward romance would have. The story is skilfully written with a number of twists and turns in the plot which is space opera at its best filled with suspense, double-dealing and space battles and unfolds against a background of a universe with its own political, economic and social structures. The author creates this background with a light touch without needing great slabs of narrative which in itself is a great skill.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it.
Paul Hanley
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