Review: Loved!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Terran is the second book in Cara Bristol’s science fiction Breeder series and I’ve been anticipating its release for quite some time. If you haven’t read the first book in this series, Breeder, I highly recommend it. It was very interesting to see each set of main characters from the books interact, and I especially loved seeing what Dak and Omra from book one were up to. Honestly I can’t pick a favorite between Breeder and Terran. Both are outstanding 5 star reads.In Terran, Parseon Alpha Marlix kidnaps a human named Tara. His motivations for kidnapping her are complicated. He wants to heal her injuries after she’s brutally assaulted but he also wants to keep her for himself, despite how his desires conflict with Parseon customs. Marlix tries to fight his attraction to the pink-haired Earth girl, but her feistiness and strength captivate him. She’s nothing like the submissive, fearful Parseon women he’s been with before, and she challenges his long-held beliefs about the status of the opposite sex.Tara wants to hate Marlix for kidnapping her, but he bestows kindnesses upon her and aside from spanking her for correction, he doesn’t harm her like she first assumes he will. Her feelings for him are conflicted by her dislike for what’s he’s done—the baboon kidnapped her and won’t let her go!—but he also seems to like her and goes out of his way to protect her. She soon realizes she has a submissive side that apparently only he can uncover, and though she doesn’t want to admit it at first, she finds a sense of security in Marlix’s commanding ways.I loved the tender but passionate relationship that develops between Marlix and Tara. Both challenge the other to experience different social conventions than what they believe in, and both characters grow along the way as they come to understand one another and accept their cultural differences. Terran is a beautifully written book with excellent world-building, hot sex, delicious spanking scenes, and a heartwarming love story between a strong-willed human woman and her extremely alpha alien mate. Don’t miss this one!