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| Off World | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephanie Vaughn
Publisher: Torquere Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 228
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1603700277
EAN: 9781603700276
Publication Date: August 7, 2008
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Sarhaan and his band of elite soldiers don't know what to make of Caleb when his little spaceship turns up on their viewscreen. Believing that he might be a Republican spy, they bring the junior diplomat onto their stolen spaceship and question him. Sarhaan is immediately attracted to the young aristocrat, despite his doubts about Caleb's motives, and his feeling that giving into his feelings would be a very bad idea. Caleb is no spy. He's come looking for Sarhaan's soldiers to help them clear their names of a crime they didn't commit. Or at least he thinks they didn't. He's looking for a murderer and figures he'd better stay clear of any kind of entanglement with the smoking hot Sarhaan until he can find out who's at fault. What he doesn't count on is falling for the genetically enhanced Sarhaan, who seems to think Caleb is just a good time. Can Caleb convince Sarhaan that he's more than just a soldier's diversion? And can Sarhaan accept that the young elite might be just what he needs? Set against the backdrop of space and Doradus Station, a place where anything goes, Off-World is part mystery, part romance, and all heat!
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 A promising author. November 12, 2008
Caleb is found by two soldiers aboard a stolen ship. He is there to help the soldiers on the Vigilant but first must convince them he is not a spy... Convincing the handsome Sarhaan might not be too much of a hardship though! Merow!
Caleb's best friend Daphne, who worked a coroner's office, has died but Caleb does not believe her death was a mugging as reported. He believes that she was murdered to cover up whatever she has found out about a series of killings in Havana and Cuba. The men of the Vigilant are under suspicion for the murders and Caleb takes it upon himself to help the team escape framing by corrupt politicians on their home planet, Earth.
Initially I found Caleb to be a bit of an ingenue, but as I read on his spine began to show through and he was quite engaging in the 2nd half of the book. He becomes more than a match for the more physically imposing Sarhaan. Our big, tough, nasty "send in the marines" hero Sarhann was plenty smexy and has been living off world for some time. His sexual preferences are not an issue on the ship whereas on Earth they are illegal. He has had far more time to become comfortable with his sexuality than Cal and this was quite a sweet plot point. The intimate moments were hot for the most part but somewhat lacking variety... or maybe I am just jaded?? heh.
I guess the problem I had with this book was that you needed to read the synopsis very closely to help decipher what was happening in the book. Even then, I still spent the 1st 50 pages floundering a bit. It's convoluted in parts and as its first novel of a series it suffers from trying build a complex world in 150 something pages. There were so many threads, often really great ideas, that were not fully fleshed out and just left hanging. It lacks the tightness of a Stephanie Vaughan's stand alone novels and this did spoil my read just a bit. While not my favorite of her books she is an author to check out.
 Intergalactic Romance and excellent sci-fi June 15, 2008
I can't say there was anything I didn't like about this book, except it wasn't long enough. It was plenty long, but I wanted more. The second book in the series is also exceptional, and I highly recommend it as well, but it focuses on two other characters, characters that beg to be explored in this first book, Alex and D'Abu. I also enjoy the references to a new ultra-conservative Earth and the destruction that brings.
I'd love to see another book about Cal and Saarhan. If you check out Torquere press the author does have a short story available about them that takes place a year later.
If you enjoy good sci-fi and romance, then you'll like this book.
Off World Series July 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once again, I was incredibly impressed with Ms Vaughan's character building. her characters sell her books, to me, every time. There is an emotional connection immediately established, letting us, the reader, truly care what will happen to these men. Off World was a fun M/M story with heart. I highly recommend it.
Off-World by Stephanie Vaughan July 20, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cal is a very young man, with a gentle soul and a fragile body who wants to discover who has brutally murdered his friend Daphne.
The prime suspects of the crime is a crew of rogue soldiers who has stolen a starship and now is wondering on the universe. Cal steals a little navette and succeeded on find the crew: but they are very big and very hungry men who think he is a spy. And decide to captive him.
Fortunately the man in command is Sarhaan, an afro-american hunk of man who happen to be very interested in Cal, and not because he could possibly be a spy: Sarhaan is very fascinating from this blond and innocent guy, who never has had sex cause sex between male is illegal on the earth. But now they are off world and Sarhaan, even if he thinks he is too unpolish and brutal for a guy like Cal, will not throw out the chance to have him.
In this novel the sci-fiction elements are not the principal aspect of the story. And also the crime is an element not so delved. It is more a story of self-discovery: for Cal, who learns that sex with a man is not a crime and that his feelings are not perverse, and for Sarhaan, who learns how to love someone. Even if you can think that Sarhaan, with his body and his role of power, is the strong element of the pair, it is not total true: I can read in him feelings inedequacy and fears to lose who he loves, that decipt him like a big man with a tender soul.
A Dream Come True June 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Off World was the book I dreamed of as gay teenager in the 1980's. I was, and still am, a voracious reader. I discovered straight romance novels and used to dream that one day there would be romance novels where the protagonists were two men. Stephanie Vaughn fulfilled that dream for me. When I first discovered gay romances I was severely disappointed. While they were full of hot sex, they were lacking in the emotional part of the equation. It seemed that those authors bought into the stereotype that the only thing gay men wanted was sex. From the minute I first read one of Stephanie Vaughn's books, I discovered an author who understood that gay men are complex human beings who not only want hot sex, but love and romance as well.
In Off World, the romance between Sarhaan and Caleb reminded me of the great swashbuckling romantic movies of the 1940's, like the ones starring Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara. Only in this book, the main characters are more like Errol Flynn and Tyrone Powers. Hooray!!!
Stephanie Vaughn's masterful writing sweeps the reader into a romantic drama with true to life characters who live in an imaginative and well constructed science fiction universe. She not only provides her readers with plenty of hot sex, but tugs at their heartstrings as well. I can't wait to read more from this author.
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