Review: Awesome prologue but poor execution
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
I’m all about a good sci-fi erotica. When I read them I feel like I get to step out of reality and the authors are allowed to bend a lot more rules. The prologue opens up to Jess at her father’s bedside and he is dying. She and her father had been taken from earth after an invasion that destroyed the planet. The scene is heartbreaking and I was already about to cry only 4% into the book. I think this is one of the fastest I’ve ever latched onto a character. I felt like the author was setting us up for what was going to be this strong, very much determined woman. I was excited, but it seems that prologue was the best part of the book….After Jess’s father’s death, she is sold off into a sex slave brothel. The author doesn’t give us much details into this which I am thankful for because my heart was already acing for her. We jump to her being free and starting her new life on Sonis. She wants a new start and she thinks this is the place she can do that. That is until she meets Rasha, who is her new boss and an Alien. Jess doesn’t do aliens, not after everything she went through in the brothel, so she tries to stay as far away from him as possible, but the pull to him is strong and Rasha has plans to have her.Rasha, I’m not sure how I feel about him. He was just kinda blah. I mean he’s sexy and has the world’s biggest c*ck it seems, but that’s about as appealing as he got. I never found him to be worthy of our heroine. In fact, the first scene we get of him is him banging his girlfriend and a friend of hers. Don’t get me wrong, the scene was hot… In fact it was the best sex scene in the book, which sucks because I feel like the best sex scene in a book should always go to the heroine and the hero, but that was a big fat no go. *cries*Once Rasha sees Jess, he wants her as his mate. This is where my problems start. While he says he wants her, I never felt like he “WANTED” her. I think the author was trying to make it seem like Rasha was just confused about how to deal with a human woman, but it just wasn’t playing out right. Ok, so if you want her as your mate go tell your ex to peace and freaking bacon grease out. You don’t just let all this linger around causing Jess more pain which she definitely didn’t need. Plus having to see your girlfriend’s sex scratches down your back… thanks but no thanks. I also didn’t get why Rasha wanted her so much. I could get it if there was that whole Must Mate MINE thing going on, but that was not there. While he might have kept saying she was his mate, it didn’t seem like a very powerful pull so I never got why he wanted her so bad.It wasn’t just Rasha. It seemed like everyone in the book was pissing me off besides the heroine. This is a major shocker because the reason people were pissing me off was because they were pushing Jess to more on with her life and stop with the pity party. Normally I’m the first to get annoyed with a heroine that keeps on and on about her past and why she isn’t good enough. That was not the case in this story. I got her and I wanted to tell them all to go flip off over yonder. I mean heck she lived through hell. That’s not easy to get past. Plus, it wasn’t like she was going out and raining on everyone’s parade or something. She just wanted to be left alone for the most part. But the few times she looked to lean on people I didn’t find them very supportive…. hence why I wanted to karate punch everyone in the book but Jess.When the book ended I was just pissed. It seemed the closer and closer I was getting to the end and my kindle percentage showing me it was almost over, the more aggravated I got. I would look down and wonder how I was already this much through the book. I kept thinking “any moment the author is going to turn this back around.” Yeah, that didn’t happen. The ending felt rushed and incomplete. I never had my YES! moment where I was over the moon for Jess and man I wanted it SO badly. I wanted a hero worthy of her and that would fight like nothing else for her. She just deserved so much more. I hated that the author made me love Jess so much then couldn’t follow through and give her and me an ending that we needed.