Review: Enjoyed it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2012
This is one of the first books I've read by Evangeline Anderson and it is also the first book in her Brides of the Kindred Series. The book is basically about these alien men called Kindred and the author does a good job of outlining the different types of species and how they saved Earth and in return Earth has to provide them with a Bride of their choosen. Enter Olivia Waterhouse who has just been claimed by a Beast/Rager Kindred named Baird. Of course she is is mate and he is desperately in love with her and in true human female fashion she is resistant at first and sure I would be resistent if a huge alien man who I've never met (but shared dreams with for 6 months)all of a sudden wanted to claim me as his bride and live in outer space away from my family. Very understandable. But Olivia has signed a contract which she didn't read (yeah makes no sense to me either) and now she is obligated to spend a month with Baird as part of the claiming period. Basically, each week her alien hunk gets to touch her more and more and she has to let him or she'll be in breach of the contract. And the story then proceeds through the trials and tribulations of this period.Now I loved the hero, Baird. He was huge, sexy, and kind and all he wanted to do was love Olivia and for her to love him, not too much to ask and unlike other novels where the guy says, "You're mine and that's it." Sure he was aggresive but he respected her wishes. I also liked the heroine, Olivia, as well. She was stubborn and nervous but there was something about him that made her want him and she didn't understand it. I can sympathize with her not liking that she cannot control her feelings about him but her constant plots to thwart him (stupidly in some instances) started to grate on my nerves. I mean, she didn't even want to give him a chance because she was afraid she'd never see her family again, which I understand, but obviously there is such thing as compromise that she didn't even want to try. After a while I began to feel sorry for him and though the love scences where he was allowed to touch her were hot most of them ended in her being annoying again. I enjoyed the book and the plot however and she wasn't so extremely annoying that I wanted to throw the book (or my iPad) down in fustration. I acutally really liked the author's concept and her ideas of the food they ate and the animals she created from each of the Kindred's respective planets. Overall it was a very creative novel and intrigued me enough that I want to continue to read the series.