Review: a new series, many possibilities, but not the greatest
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Aliens are finally visiting the Earth.  And they are friendly.  They want Earth to join the Alliance.  The aliens know that not all Earth folks are going to welcome them with open arms, so Hunter and his crewmates are part of the task force to find Earth people who want to cause trouble and subdue them.  Jesse, Jordan, and Taylor are sisters. Their father was a police officer who died when the rioting started 4 years ago when the aliens landed.  The three girls have been living on the streets and trying to survive for the past 4 years.Jesse, the oldest, is out scrounging food for her younger sisters, and stumbles upon a captured Hunter.  Hearing that the people who captured him plan to dissect him and kill him, she cannot stand it.  She rescues him, and manages to get herself hurt in the process.  Of course, Hunter chases her down, finds her, proclaims her his Amate, and they eventually go back to his homeworld.I look forward to most of Ms. Smith's series.  Several of her other series are really quite good.  I cannot put my finger on what went wrong with this one.  The characters were really likeable, and the heroine, Jesse, was really a kick-butt kind of girl.  There is a great bond with the sisters, and the set up for at least two more books ( about each of the sisters) is playing out in the entire book.The book just seemed to flop around, there was no definitive enemy, no protagonist, nothing to really root for or against.  The sex scenes were hot, as usual, but there was just a lack of OOMPH in the book..  Even the descriptions of the characters were lacking, they were not really described that well.The book was an okay read, I would not read it again, as I have several of her series.  I cannot say that I disliked the book, but I cannot say that it was one my favorite reads of hers.