Crau
by Miranda Martin and
James D. Horton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Human Camilla was captured by aliens before being sold and then stolen to end up working as a slave on the planet Krix where everything has gone back to something like Roman times with gladiators fighting in the ring and no use of technology in normal life. So her life is a version of hell, isolated from the other humans, working as a slave and available for gladiators to torment at whim. The first time she sees the half-alien and half-cyborg man spying on her she thinks he is no matter than the others, but she was wrong - he is very different and maybe her only hope of escaping. Crau was a slave, a gladiator and now free leading the Free Movement leaving him little time for a woman let alone love. But the moment he sees Camilla his mechanical heart stops. The whole system of slavery stands between him and her and he doesn't give a damn - if he has to destroy the whole planet to have her then that is the way it is going to be.
This was a fitting final story in the series. I enjoyed the descriptions of the slavery and gladiatorial circumstances of the planet's inhabitants. I loved the way that the relationship between Camilla and Crau started more as a friendship and not as a demand for attention or physical gratification. There were definitely some heartbreaking moments where I was convinced that their story would end in tragic circumstances before somehow either within themselves or with the help of friends they were able to recover the situation. The final conclusion was great to realise how people really did have a future that did not involve brutality nor torture. Easy to read and understand. Contains some explicit sexual content.
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