Promissory Note (The Endurance Book 3)

This sci-fi romance takes place on a colony ship. The heroines debt is traded to the hero and then they work together. The world building is fascinating. The romance is slow and not without obstacles, but I was satisfied with the ending.Read in KU

Lovely story; I love it! Great characters, great plot, great dialogue and narrative.

Title: Promissory NoteSeries: The Endurance Book 4Note: Book 4Author: Tracy Cooper-PoseyThis is my review of Promissory Note, book in The Endurance Series. I got this fourth book in the series free as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This is the continuation of a great world and is a full story in one book. Be warned though you will not want to stop with just this one book and I am ready to find out what happens in the rest of the books. Despite the length it does move at a good pace and keeps you interested.This book is the continuation of The Endurance and its crew. Laura has a promissory note that says she must give her vegetables to the person who holds the note in exchange for her apartment. After a problem on board the ship Laura is unable to complete the agreement that she signed and as a result she has lost the note and it was signed over to Micah Thorn. Laura is a woman who spends most of her time in her garden and everyone loves her. Micah is a bit of an egotistical guy and is a very alpha male. Laura is now forced to work for him because he is basically in control. This makes Laura very mad but she does what she needs to and even learns to care for him after she learns information about his past. Both Micah and Laura have demons in their past and have trouble trusting but slowly they learn to work together and things develop.You do seem some familiar faces from the other books but there is not enough information about them given up that it would ruin the endings of the other books. I was able to read this as a standalone and I am still going to try to get the other books to read as well because I am interested in this world and this crew and want to read more. This is my first book by this author and I must say I was not disappointed. I did have some technical issues getting the book but that was my own fault and it was well worth it. Once you find out the true past of Laura and Micah they become so much more loveable characters and you find yourself upset by all that they have endured. It takes a good author to be able to bring out emotions in you just from words on a screen but this author has managed to do it and I am very happy with the book. I think you will love it, even if you have not read any of the other books in this series. This is a science fiction book with a romance involved that uses the backdrop of the Endurance’s continuing journey to Destination to continue its plot.This book is part of The Endurance series:Book 0.5 5,001Book 1.0 Greyson’s DoomBook 2.0 Yesterday’s LegacyBook 3.0 Promissory Note

*I received this story as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.First, my visceral reaction to Promissory Note. I very much enjoyed it. I had the requisite spine-tingling moments, laughter, suspense, and tears. And after reading, I did a lot of thinking about the ideas the story evoked. In my mind the best stories make me mull, ponder, and ruminate over concepts, and if it’s highly entertaining, then it’s on my favorites list. This story hit all of those marks.Now for the more technical stuff: this is the fourth book in Tracy Cooper-Posey’s Endurance series and it can be read without first having been introduced to the others as it takes place about 90 “years” after the events in Yesterday’s Legacy.The plot of the story is not usual for what a reader sees in this genre, but it is well executed and enjoyable. However, I deducted one point simply because the pacing in the first half of the book was unexpected and a bit slow for me. If I could have taken a half point, I would have, but alas! Anyway, Cooper-Posey gives a new twist to an old archetype, and readers get to have a fresh look at Romance. It’s Science-Fiction light, but heavy on the world building. The setting takes place with people who are traveling on a ship through outer space hoping to reach a landing place they call Destination. Much like Earth is our home, their world is centered on their ship.What happens in such a close environment during hundreds of years of travel? Well, this story helps to outline some of those issues. Another difference, for me anyway, is that the love scenes aren’t hot and heavy. The main characters, Micah Thorn and Laura Hyland, initially feel of distrust for one another though they are forced to work together when Micah trades for Laura’s promissory note to another person. Their story progresses more in line with reality. Not insta-love, but love that grows through mutual understanding and respect over a period of time. They are like real people; complex, damaged, wary, and compensating for their faults in a society that picks at differences.So, many readers will be able to relate to these characters and this world, and will be able to identify with how reputations and public face personas are used to protect the real person behind them. Things that we so easily witness or experience ourselves in our social-media driven societies.