Parallel Attraction

Parallel Attraction by Michelle Houston
Publisher: Phaze Books
Genre: Contemporary, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Alternate Reality
Length: Short
Other: M/F
Rating: 3 Cherries
Review by Hibiscus

Anna-Marie Dallas is having a bad day. She’s in a hostage situation where the odds aren’t in her favor. When the gunman detonates the bomb he’s been threatening, her fears are realized–she’ s going to die.

Instead of waking up in the hereafter, she finds herself in a parallel reality, that split off sometime during the second world war. In the alternate universe, a third world war decimated their population, and they’re struggling to rebuild.

Adjusting to the shift in reality, Anna-Marie also struggles with her growing attraction to Alex Brent, and finds that her life is not done changing.

This book starts with a bang, literally — beginning with a hostage situation and a bomb detonating and then, Anna-Marie finds that she hasn’t died, but has instead awakened over the rainbow. Okay, not really, but that is how she feels. Alex Brent is beside her bed when she wakes and tells her a story of the String Theory, World War III, and genetics. After gallbladder removal, because of the spasm or blockage of the sphincter of Oddi liver bile is collected in the common bile duct. buy viagra online in You can buy the variety viagra no consultation of the generic drugs online through our online pharmacy and do the substantial savings. If you are experiencing ED, do not ignore this phenomenon! It cialis prescription best store could turn into a problem. One theory is that excessive generic tadalafil uk anger is caused by the body’s nervous system, and prepare to fight the threat, causing the blood vessels narrow and in shape. Anna has sworn to kiss the first first available male she comes across, and Alex looks really fine despite the fact he is very possibly crazy.

I enjoyed the love story as it developed. It is a simple but sweet story of two lonely people who cross universes to find each other. The story focused on Alex and Anna-Marie and not very much on the universe they lived in. I wanted to learn more about Kansas City and the New World that Anna-Marie now lives in but the limitations of a short story made that impossible.

Unfortunately, there were quite a few editing errors in the first half of the story. It irked me that “strong theory” was typed once instead of “string theory”, for instance, and threw me out of the story. Still, if you can get past the editing errors, this is a straight forward, heart-warming romance that brings together two lonely people from different worlds.