The Rowan - Anne McCaffrey

An orphaned young girl simply called the Rowan, cries telepathically from a mud covered transport on a newly settled planet.  At her young age, her telepathic and telekinetic powers are top tier the kinetically gifted are trained in mind/machine gestalt. She is taken and settled into training to become a prime talent on Callisto, a planet on the outer limits of the Nine Star League.  When she is grown and serving the network on the outer most planet system, she intercepts an urgent medical call from a powerful Jeff Raven on the outer solar system in a newly settled planet.  She convinces the other primes to merge their powers to help Jeff fight off an attack by invading aliens.  Once the heavy lifting is complete, her relationship with Jeff quickly grows and he changes her view of status imposed isolation and helps her to learn what love and family means.

Another series from Anne McCaffrey that I would 100% recommend.  She writes such human characters and beautiful worlds.  I won't write a review for each of the books but each book is from the perspective of the family and each continues on the story.  Personally Damia is my favorite in the series although some might cringe.  

Simple series premise of good against mindless evil ultimately but you can never go wrong with a  classic

There Will Be Dragons - John Ringo

Set in a future will no war, disease nor ill timed death, the world is a paradise and lives under all possible protections.  The "Net" has a council of men and women who govern it through technology however as humans often do they have a falling out because some want more power than others.  When it happens the "Net" goes down and leaves the world without the life saving nano technology.  Across the world, communities have to fall back to old ways of natural life.  Herzer Herrick was born with a crippling disease which in a world with near perfection shouldn't have happened.  But he was a fighter and learned early on survival.  However he is naive and follows too easily at first. In the small village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, unassuming master smith and historian finds that his hobbies are life saving and people start looking to him for leadership.  He's lived a long, storied life and has the skills even if he is reluctant to do so, but his former lover and daughter are a driving force for his life and he will do anything to save them.

I saw this book on a random table in a thiftlike centre and loved the cover.  It is so much more than the cover and that caught me right away. This is not a book for people that are feminists.  There are STRONG male characters in this that at times are macho and manly men.  John Ringo is a excellent writer and weaves a futuristic tale of woe on the tales of technology gone wrong and how in one moment what happens if it all disappears.  Personally I LIKE Herzer and Edmund.  I appreciate the character growth and when they make mistakes how they learn from them.  I appreciate Herzers drive to make more of himself and ya he's mostly a meathead but not all characters are "heros".  I like Edmunds character just as much. Theres internal politics and shuffling for power and strategic placements.  This book has a little of everything centered around an interesting premise.

Baring the warning, I would recommend to the right reader.

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

This one is a little bit different than other Ali Hazelwood books. It had less smarty/sciencey stuff and more internal emotional hurdles to overcome.  Rue is very emotionally detached from the world however she's still a woman with woman needs. Some might view Eli's obsessiveness with Rue as...well I'm not sure how to define it but it spoke to me on a level that I appreciated it and enjoyed reading it from his perspective.  It does boarder on well it's getting in 50 Shades of Grey area BUT not bondage.  Control is the name of this man's pleasure.  There is a trigger warning at the start of this book fyi.  

I appreciated this one for what it was and would still recommend.