Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

From a full disclosure point of view, before taking a much less enthusiastic point of view than the clear cut majority opinion here: I'm male, north of 60, and a very long-time sci-fi buff. That is to say, an outlier from the demographic that loves this novel. Archetype is an uneasy blend of the type of novel with the bare-chested Fabio and a gauzily clad woman on the cover (a genre sometimes called vaginal romance) and juvenile science fiction with an astoundingly tenuous connection to credibility. The protagonist, in prior reviews, has been called a heroine and an action hero, but seems to have only one superpower: the ability to swoon in the presence of men with strong jawlines and well-defined musculature. What could have been a strong female character, think Sigourney Weaver in Alien, ends up coming across more like an adolescent Meg Ryan whose mother has just taken away her cell phone. My god, the whining. Endless. So, to keep this short, if you LIKE steamy romance novels (yep, I've read a few), you'll like this book, which has virtually every single trope used in the genre, with the exception of the phrase "heaving loins" (though loins do heave in this tale). It's a good beach read. If you're a feminist, I recommend pre-medicating with an anti-nausea medication before cracking the cover. If you demand anything more from your science fiction/fantasy novels than is offered up by young adult tales of werewolves and vampires (yeah, I watched those movies, too), keep your finger far away from the "Buy It Now" button. Katniss (of Hunger Games) wouldn't waste an arrow on the semi-heroine of this book, she'd take her down with a stern glare, which would cause our "action hero" Emma Wade to have one of her many cardiac dysrhythmias, or her several episodes of "literally" doing something not at all possible to do in the literal sense. There's a sequel to this book. Terrifying notion.