She trusts Shade to do his job without even considering how SHADY the man and his business is. For being a “street smart” captain whose crew members are loyal to a fault, Tess makes so many decisions that highlight her incompetence.
Unfortunately, I had a few things that didn’t work for me, the biggest being character consistency with Tess. I love romance in my books, just look at my Goodreads, but I would rather sacrifice a stilted romance and have an exciting read with well-crafted flawed characters that fit authentically within the story. As it stands, and this may be a bit sacrilegious as a romance reader, we could have used less of the forced chemistry between Tess and Shade to urge the story-line along.
I think it would have made it easier to like him as a romantic interest. We know his general motivations but more time could have been spent exploring his past. I enjoyed Shade’s complexity and wish his background was fleshed out a bit more. It all went a bit wrong for me when Shade was introduced. The beginning of the book is downright exciting and exactly what I expected. Dictatorship complete with an evil book-burning overlord, rebels fighting the good fight from a mysterious location, a ragtag crew of Robin Hoods stealing from the overlord and giving to orphanages, and several other delicious tropes that make Nightchaser a combination that reads like Star Wars and Robin Hood. Bouchet has created an interesting dystopian existence amongst the stars in Nightchaser.
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