Mostly I couldn’t get into this because the hero is trying to be so Me Tarzan *beats chest* and then turns around and almost manages to be a reasonable man. I find that I have little patience these days for stories of romance of situations/attitudes I would not tolerate in real life. For example, the mining colony. The story implies that all of the miners are men and then they have wives. And all the little wives are 1950 style housewives. Great, if that is what she wants, but I find I can’t stretch my disbelief to include ALL of the women, unless you throw something else in like the mine is for a religious group. I would hope by the year 2800-something there would be equipment sophisticated enough that a miner would easily be male as female?
There seems to be only lip service that a woman can think and manage on her own in this story, unless you are an exceptional woman such as the heroine (aka one in a million.) Also, the whole I claim you as mate and your consent is not needed thing. Oh heck no! And the I’ll kidnap you, tied you to the bed, and force sex (even if it is fantastic sex) on you until you consent. Hellloooo!!! That is called rape. Totally NOT romantic, in my opinion. This, of course, doesn’t cover the plot holes in the story. Military logic and science logic are grossly glossed over. I found it mildly aggravating, but could put it aside for the story flow.
If you like the Me Tarzan, You Jane *beats chest* type of story, then this is a very good one for that. I personally find them difficult to like and really don’t understand why I finished this book. I think I wanted to see her have a romance with Chance or see her deal with Earth now after so long gone. Her deal with seeing his children. Finding out about his romance with her sister. Etc etc. All, in all, a bunch of stuff the author deliberately avoided dealing with. Oh well…