Burndive by Karin Lowachee
reviewed by Sherwood Smith
Ryan Azarcon is a spoiled brat. He's also, at age nineteen (three years into his majority on this far-future Hub station called Austra) the "Hot Number One Bachelor." Good looking, rich, son of extremely famous parents, you'd think he has no reason to be snotty to the media and grumpy to his patient bodyguard of seven years, Sid, as well as to his loving relatives, right?

Warchild by Karin Lowachee
reviewed by Cindy Lynn Speer
Jos Musey is 8 years old when his world is destroyed by pirates. He and a few other children are imprisoned, taken off the merchant ship Mukudori. Everyone else, including Jos's parents, are killed. Jos, because he is exceptionally pretty, is kept by the notorious pirate Falcone for his own purposes. Falcone trains him, and does other things that are too terrible to be more than hinted at, things which will dominate him and his actions through out the book. Joss manages to escape, only to be captured by another enemy.