Review: Fabulous Trio of SciFi Romance - If you love exciting, these are for you!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2013
Amazing stories! If you love scifi romance, this anthology is for you. Read the blurbs, then my thoughts, and I hope you'll read this amazing anthology as well as the first, HOTTER ON THE EDGE.GOLD LIKE THE SUN by Erin KellisonThis is an amazing, action-packed adventure through the back streets of Nyer as Pilar and Hakan try to figure out how to save themselves, two worlds, and figure out whom they can truly trust. Their love for each other, their families, and their home worlds drive this story of forgiveness, discovery, and a future greater and safer than either expected for the innocent.I highly recommend this exceptional scifi romance, filled with danger, and a bit of unexpected violence. It is a wonderful sequel to Erin's story, ALL THAT GLITTERS, her original story in the first anthology, HOTTER ON THE EDGE. It's not an absolute necessity to read the first story, but I greatly suggest you do.TO KEEP A WIFE by KC KleinWe met Lake and Hudson in KC's story in the first anthology, HOTTER ON THE EDGE, in TO BUY A WIFE. A man who has a wife is revered with respect, envy, and believed to have great prestige in this war-torn society. We catch up with Lake, Hudson, and Lake's little brother, Vonn, in the midst of an attack on the farm. Lake realizes that the Elders want her and will stop at nothing, and will spare no one, to get her in their clutches. She convinces a wounded Hudson to protect her brother, let the Elders take her, and come for her later. Things don't work out exactly how Lake had hoped. Now a prisoner of the maniacal Syon, too much time has passed for her to believe that Hudson is ever coming for her. It's just her again, alone to fend for herself, and her unborn child.This story covers so much in so short a time that you will almost feel like you're watching a film in your head. Whereas I bullied KC about Lake being on her own too much in TO BUY A WIFE, in TO KEEP A WIFE, KC Klein weaves a wonderful story about the fear of loss, fear of abandonment, and the wonder of how love can pull back loving memories from the darkness and bring a family back together. TO KEEP A WIFE by KC Klein is a the perfect finish to a story that began with a match not exactly made in heaven but ends with a happy ending that will lead us on even more adventures. I hope.I highly recommend the short story, TO KEEP A WIFE by KC Klein but only if you've read TO BUY A WIFE, without that lead-in, the fast paced action of this one might confuse and sully the wonderful intricacy of this tale. Please read TO BUY A WIFE in the first anthology, HOTTER ON THE EDGE.PRINCE OF PASSION by Jessa SladeJessa Slade blew me away with the imagery and science elements in this story about a May/December romance that develops between a Queen and an outworlder friend of her son when he comes to her water world fraught with all kinds of natural dangers.Icere is the last remaining l'aurylo - "a being born, sculpted, and infused with the purest of passions" through the l'auraly crystal. He has come to Saya-Terce because he suspects the mercenary raiders, who tried to steal the l'auraly crystals from his home planet resulting in their destruction and the end of life as he knew it to be, were now after the Malac liqueur. There is no end to the dangers of what the aphrodisiac liqueur might be used for in altered forms.Rynn, the Saya of Saya-Terce is suspicious of anyone wishing to get too close to her, or her children, after her own husband betrayed her home world and so her instincts tell her to question this beautiful young man's reasons for being in the midst of the Malac Festival, and so close to her son. What she doesn't expect is how sexually charged she would feel in his presence. Nor the need to which they would succumb to, after an accident during the harvest places them together and under the influence of the Malac liqueur.PRINCE OF PASSION by Jessa Slade is an amazing sequel to ENSLAVED BY STARLIGHT from the first anthology, HOTTER ON THE EDGE. It's even more illuminated than the first, with amazing imagery, incredible characters and creature creations, and the danger that makes Icere and Rynn band together to save Saya-Terce. Their romance is powerful, insightful, and naturally believable. Rynn is a beautiful and powerful ruler with unusual abilities that make her more than just a queen but rather a part of her world. Icere understands her, even if she doesn't understand herself. Two of a kind, both more connected to their home worlds than to others, Icere embraces her, and her talents, in the same way he relates to his own home world and the crystal that is so much a part of him.I highly recommend reading PRINCE OF PASSION by Jessa Slade, working well as a stand alone, I still recommend you read this entire anthology. For the greatest reading pleasure, I also suggest you start with HOTTER ON THE EDGE, the first anthology, but if you only read the second - HOTTER ON THE EDGE 2 - be sure to read this beautiful, imaginative, and incredible story by Jessa.If you love exciting romance, these are exceptional.***eCopy provided by authors in exchange for an honest and unscripted review. It was easy to do because I loved, loved, loved all three!