Accidental Abduction

Nothing says I love you like bloodshed and violence.

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Accidental Abduction
Eve Langlais
Alien Abduction, book one
ebook, 110 pages
Published May 22nd 2011 by Eve Langlais
ISBN 9780986915420

Abducted by a space pirate, she fights the temptation to let him plunder her goods.

A boyfriend’s attempted murder leaves Megan floundering in the ocean. Sinking without hope, the bright light she sees in the night sky isn’t her doorway to heaven, but rather the beginning of her accidental abduction by a space pirate. While thankful of his rescue, Megan stays true to form and just can’t keep her mouth shut, even when he keeps threatening to kill her--or auction her off to the highest bidder. Even odder, despite her decision to not get involved with her wickedly hot captor, she can’t help craving his touch.

Tren retired from his job as a mercenary so he could enjoy life, but he never counted on the boredom of normalcy. The acquisition of rare items has somewhat filled the void, but his accidental abduction of an outspoken earthling, who doesn’t know when to shut up, turns his life upside. Her fiery spirit draws him while at the same time drives him insane. Struggling with his urges, he must decide-- throttle her barbarian neck or ravish her delectably lush body?

Despite what his heart tries to tell him, he’s determined to sell her to the highest bidder even as he seduces her body. However, despite his best intentions, he discovers he can’t let her go. And when a foe from his past thinks to steal her, he’ll do anything to get her back.

There's nothing believable about this story, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining.

When Megan's boyfriend for all of six months decides to dump her behind off a boat and leave her for dead, it's an alien abduction that saves her from inevitable doom. 

Her hero? Tren. A purple ex mercenary turned acquisitions specialist. 

While collecting specimens from Earth's oceans, because, yeah they'll be a rarity at the rate we're destroying our natural resources, he accidentally scoops himself up a human. And he doesn't want it. 

With plans to sell her the first chance he gets, Tren decides to keep it for the time being. Until she awakens and opens her mouth. 

Holy hell, this woman does not shut up! 

And Tren, although annoyed as frukx, finds her spirit and temper arousing. Soon enough, they can't keep their hands off one another. All the while, their clashes never cease. 

Yelling at someone has never, in any way, sparked the fuel in my libido, so the smut did nothing for me. Sure, I laughed, until the non-stop bitching turned that off as well. 

In the end, I did find what I'm always on the hunt for in these paranormal affairs-love, mate marking, and justice. 

3 out of 5 stars.

My Lady Mage: Warriors of the Mist #1

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My Lady Mage
Alexis Morgan
Warriors of the Mist, book one
ebook, 336 pages
Published July 3rd 2012 by Signet
ISBN 9781101587126

A cursed destiny. A band of warriors. And one troubled kingdom.

It is whispered in Agathia that the legendary warriors of the mist—cursed by the gods—can be summoned only when a champion is needed and the cause is just. Gideon, their captain, knows this to be the one path that will lead his men to redemption—lest they face an eternity of damnation.

Years have passed since anyone has journeyed to the river's edge, but times are desperate. Oppressed by a cruel guardian whose dark magic threatens to destroy her people, the beautiful and courageous Merewen calls upon the bespelled warriors. In Gideon she finds more than a champion, and in his arms, more than protection. However, their enemies are fighting with a power darker than anything than they imagined, and should Gideon fail, she will lose everything she holds dear—including her heart.

After her father passed, Merewen's uncle took control of their home where he rules with a heavy, abusive hand. With her people suffering, and little hope left, she turns to the legend of the warriors cursed to spend eternity asleep beneath the river.

The Damned, Gideon and his fellow knights, Duncan, Murdoch, Averel, and Kane, are doomed to never be free of their punishment. They wait on the gods, a tool to be used at their whim, set free only when those gods find one whose burden is worthy enough for them to champion. Merewen's plight is decidedly worthy.

The five warriors are released to fight her battle and for three months they will crusade to save her people. But what they find upon awakening is a land haunted by dark magic. The likes of which not even Kane, grandson of a dark mage, has ever known.

Meanwhile, with Merewen, Gideon is reminded of what it is to just be a man. And Merewen, a woman who hasn't been courted since before her father's death, finds an awakening in his touch. Their romance is dreadfully minimum but unfolds at a natural pace until it becomes necessary for the goddess to intervene to give Gideon one last push.

This story is but the beginning, and likely won't find its end until all five knights have fallen in love. Obviously, this was Gideon and Merewen's start, and a bit of Murdoch's as well as he falls for Alina, Merewen's aunt. For now, the threat of Olaf and Fagan has been destroyed. Kane and Averel venture to the city where the duke, a dark mage, dwells to infiltrate his court as spies. Next up, though, is Duncan, who probably was the least intriguing of the group for me.

3 out of 5 stars.

Hard As A Rock

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Hard As A Rock
Mina Carter
Paranormal Protection Agency, book one
ebook, 24 pages
Published September 11th 2011 by Blue Hedgehog Press
ISBN 9781466162747

Iliona's had a rough day, so the last thing she wants is a whiny ex on her doorstep throwing accusations about which of her co-workers she's screwing. When he starts throwing punches and one of her hunky gargoyle co-workers rushes to her rescue, Iliona is more interested in what exactly he's been doing on the ledge outside her bedroom window...and whether he's interested in more than watching.

Cal and Iliona aren't lovers. They're not even friends. Their only bond is the Paranormal Protection Agency where they both work.

When Cal comes to the rescue after her ex starts to get violent, she invites him into her home only to learn that his sudden appearance isn't by chance of luck. He's assigned himself as her guardian and has spent many a night lurking in his gargoyle form outside of her bedroom window.

He's seen her naked. And he wants her body.

And Ilona suffers no hesitation whatsoever at giving it to him.

So it's a story of sex. Sex with a gargoyle. And not a thing more.

2 out of 5 stars.

Best Kept Secrets

Best Kept Secrets
Evangeline Anderson
ebook
Published February 25, 2014 by Loose Id.
ISBN 9781623007775

Cassandra and Josh are xenobiologists. Traveling around the universe searching for new forms of life is exciting and Cass is never lonely because Josh is there. He is sweet, funny, kind and handsome…everything Cass has ever wanted in a man. But he’s also her stepbrother. There’s never been anything but normal affection between the two of them…until they encounter the truth plant of Svortza 6.

The truth plant is said to have strange properties—it forces all who come in contact with it to act on their deepest emotions. Cass is skeptical of the rumors until Josh is sprayed with the plant’s secretions and begins having fugue states where he is a mindless creature bent only on satisfying his sexual hunger.

Now, trapped on an alien world, Cassandra is learning a lesson in submission and forbidden lust. She knows she must keep Josh’s actions secret from him or he will hate himself forever. But some secrets are just too big to keep…

Note: Carrie and Josh have no blood ties and their relationship is fully consensual; however, some readers, particularly those with a history of sexual abuse or incest, may find this story disturbing.

Evangeline Anderson can tell a forbidden, step-sibling love story like no damn other, but the more of them she writes, the less strain there seems to be on the step-sibling part of the matter. First, (Eyes Like A Wolf) they grew up together but were the last of an otherworldly race, so our culture's taboo didn't necessarily apply. Then (Picture Perfect) they'd been a family for a matter of years and it was a little tense there. Now, (Best Kept Secrets) one month is all that they've had as being step-siblings, and both parents are now dead.

Are they even step-siblings anymore?

Without the tension of family ties, we're left with just Cassandra's conflicting thoughts on allowing Josh to be physical with her during his episodes wherein the lust he's long buried for her comes out through the 'Beast'. The drama of that mingles well the smut, but unfortunately it all loses it's sizzle as Cassie just... lies back and let's him have at it.

In end, they basically decide that they're not hurting anyone, and it feels good, so why not just keeping doing it.

Grr. Such a disappointment.

3 out of 5 stars.