Tundra 37 (New Dawn, #2)

by Aubrie Dionne

• ISBN10: 1937044491
• ISBN13: 9781937044497
• Publish Date: 7 February 2012
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Entangled Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 290
• Language: English

Reviews

As seen at: Miss Book Reviews

The storyline:
I loved that Tundra 37 wasn’t based on the romance, I love that the actual plotline was based on the survival of the lifers aboard The Expedition. It made this book very addicting to read. I really enjoyed it.

Gemme is the matchmaker aboard The Expedition. She accepts or denies the matches that the computer pairs life mates, she makes sure they are far apart in the family tree and that their genetics would be good together. Another part of her job is to search for a special gene, a gene that is kept a secret, only the matchmakers are to know of this job.

One morning as she’s working she discovers the computer has finally matched her to her life mate; Lieutenant Miles Brentwood. The one and only man that the seers trust communicating with, the man that many woman wish to be matched to. Gemme panics and decline’s the match thinking that everyone will assume that she hacked the system and chose her life mate herself.

Soon after a shocking event happens that changes the lives of everyone aboard The Expedition. Their ship is caught in the middle of a meteor shower and is pummelled to the point that if it were to continue flying towards their destination planet Paradise 18 then they would never survive. So the seer’s that control the ship through their minds divert the ship to land on the nearest hospitable planet; Tundra 37.

On Tundra 37 Gemme is assigned a new job to the team that will explore the planet for the fuel that will keep their ship running for them to live on, while they build their new lives on the planet. The team just so happens to be lead by Lieutenant Miles Brentwood. Tundra 37 holds many mysteries. And Gemme starts to discover the answers to the questions she never thought to ask.

The Romance:
The romance wasn’t the forefront of this book which was great, but it did have a bigger stage rather than just being on the side. It mixed well with the plot and I liked that it wasn’t driving the plot yet it was still a huge part. I usually get bored when the romance is the only plot line but I’m glad to say that this story has a lot more going on.

In saying that though the romance definitely had my own stomach in butterflies, the whole book I was on the edge of my seat just waiting for it to explode. In my opinion that is exactly what romance should be in a book!

Points of Views:
There were four different point of views in this book, as first I thought that this was a lot of people to get your head around, but the way that Dionne integrated each character actually made it work really well.

I thoroughly enjoyed each character’s point of view and even though they weren’t all in the same situation when we flicked to another person I never felt like I was being wrenched out of the story and placed into another one. I liked how every character was related to the main storyline in some way, they weren’t off having their own little adventure.

Overall, this book was very entertaining. The four different points of views worked in this book, they were integrated well and I found I was interested in all of the characters. I was on the edge of my seat flicking through the pages as fast as I could just waiting to see what happened next.

Tundra 37 is an enjoyable and exciting romantic science fiction that pulls you in to the world of the characters and has you sitting on the edge of your seat the whole way.

[Cocktails and Books]

Gemme is the matchmaker on the ship Expedition and is used to following rules and doing as she's told. She's not one to rock the boat. So when she see her name pop up on the matchmaking list and it has her life mate as the up and coming Lieutenant Mile Brentwood, so thinks it wrong and deletes the match. Soon after, the ship is hit by comets and forced to crash land on the frozen planet Tundra 37. Gemme is picked to be part of the exploration crew that must leave the ship to find the vital element needed to run the ship's engines. Terrified, Gemme learns she's got a courage she never knew she had and the ability to contribute to those in her community as something more than a matchmaker.

Miles Brentwood has an ear with the Seer's, the centuries old twins who run the ship. After the accident with the comets, he begins to suspect more is going on than he is being told, but he doesn't immediately question his orders. He takes his team of four out on their mission. Soon Miles is given a secondary mission to complete, one that must be done is secret from 2 of the other team members. To find a genetic anomaly and bring it back. He begins to question what they are doing on this secret second mission while he fights an unexplainable attraction to Gemme. But soon he begins to realize that something is up with what they are sent to retrieve and it may not be for the good of the ship or their community.

Together, Miles and Gemme have to learn that sometimes it is good to question the establishment and do what you feel is ultimately right, not just for yourself but for the good of everyone.

The second book in the Sci-Fi series, A New Dawn, was a little on the out there scale for me. The storyline with Gemme and Miles and their crews journey to complete both mission was excellent. I found myself wanting more and more of the foursome on the page because I enjoyed them so much.

Where the book took a weird turn for me was with the Seer's and the orb. The present and past flip flopping and how that storyline related to where we were today (or not) just did not capture my interest. I hate to say it, I would speed read through those section just to get onto something more interesting. I just felt we could have gotten away with a little less of how the twins got to where they are now.

As with Paradise 21, there isn't a hot romance between Miles and Gemme. Instead the story focuses on the characters trying to save themselves and the rest of the ship's crew along with solving the mystery of the orb and why the Seer's want it. Most of the story was very engaging and kept my interest...with the exception of the Seer part.