Ugh what can I say? I've heard such good things about Laurann Dohner's books so I decided to give this one a try. I started it Friday and have only made it a third of the way through the book. I know I am a slow reader but this one was just....ugh!
Let me start with the cover...could it be any uglier? I know not to judge a book by its cover but this is just not appealing at all. The rivers of bulging veins and that hair that looks like it belongs to an 80's rock star. Just bad all around.
The story itself started off pretty good. The crash scene was great. But then oh then it all went downhill quickly. Besides the horrible names (Batina...really?) the female characters were dumb as bricks. I gave up after hearing for the thousandth time about the clans and how they hate each other and what the grandfather plans to do to them...Seriously the majority of the first third of the book is all badly done world building. It is repetitive and I sat there practically pulling out my hair hoping for something..anything to happen. I would have seriously been happy had a bear wandered out of the woods to gobble up one of the passengers (I'm voting for Dusti to be eaten).
I just couldn't finish this. It was poorly written and seemed like the author didn't know where she wanted to go with it or she couldn't figure out how to get the characters to where she wanted them. This makes me seriously consider not checking out the other books by her.
Yay, my first review! I've been in an abduction alpha-male romance mood and so I trudged through the looooong line of books I have on my e-reader (ok I really use my cellphone to read ebooks). When I came across this one I knew I had my book.
From Goodreads:
Abby Tanner is content to live on her mountain creating her beautiful works of art and enjoying the peace and quiet. All of that changes when a strange golden space ship crash lands on it. Now, Abby has to deal with a golden ship, a tortured alien, and an insane local sheriff.
Zoran Reykill knew he had to find a safe place to heal after he escapes from a Curizan military post. When his symbiosis mothership takes him to an unknown planet he finds more than he expects – he finds his true mate. The only problems are Abby doesn’t understand a thing he says and the local sheriff wants her too. There is only one thing the King of Valdier can do, abduct his true mate.
Now Zoran has his hands full trying to keep his true mate safe in his own world while trying to help her accept her new life. He will need all the help he can get to help his stubborn human accept she can make a life in a place other than her mountain back on Earth. He just needs to keep her alive long enough to enjoy it and away from the other males on his planet who wouldn’t mind helping her accept her new sensual body.
One thing he knows he will never regret – abducting Abby
Normally I'm not a fan of erotic/erotica books. Mainly just cause I find most sex scenes boring and eye rolling worthy. I love sexual tension and waiting with anticipation for that big moment. In erotica there is little to no sexual tension. Surprisingly, for the most part I was not bored with the sex in this book. There was a few more scenes than is my preference but the plot was still there and so was the romance.
I'm a sucker for a hot alpha male and Zoran was all that. Super sexy and super possessive he was the type of alpha I was in the mood to read about. I wasn't so interested in the whole dragon shape shifting thing. Being an alien was enough for me I didn't also need him to be a shapeshifter. As for Abby she really wasn't fleshed out well enough for me. I liked that she had a unique talent (glass blowing) but she was kind of annoying. She was always emotional but never wanted to really discuss things with Zoran despite his repeatedly asking her. I didn't mind the insta-love/lust as this was one of those books where they are mate and therefore fated to be together.
I fell in love with Abby's new friends and cannot wait to read Cara's book. I don't know if I would have read the next book if it wasn't for the fact that instantly fell in love with Cara's character and can't wait to see how she drives her man insane. I also think that Carmen's book would be an interesting one as well. So I'll definitely be at least checking out the next book in the series.
In the end I'm struggling how to rate this book. I think I fall somewhere between 3 and 4 stars but I hate giving half star ratings as most book review sites like goodreads want full star. It wasn't quite good enough to be 4 stars but it was better than just mid-level range. I'm going err on the side of rounding up.
4 out of 5 stars.
