Review: Surprisingly good read!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2012
Ok...first get past the cover...I think it is awful. I am thinking this is a cheesy erotic novel but it was in my recommendations so I thought I would give it a try.This is totally an erotica but it has a really good story line...very interesting.So this book is set in the future where there are many planets that are inhabited. In this galaxy...trespassing is the same crime level as murder. A crime is a crime. All prisoners go to a prison planet...All prisoners, male or female.Riana is an archeologist who get gets charged with trespassing...off to the prison planet. When she first gets there a guard notices how beautiful she is and the fact that she is not a prostitute and knows that the men will tear her apart. He gives her advice..."Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It's the only way you'll ever survive."While getting a tour of the Hold, which is what they call the prison, she sees Thorn who already has three woman in his cell and is obviously the alpha male. She also sees a loner in the corner cell working out. He has great body, very handsome, but she finds out that he keeps to himself and no one knows his name.So Thorn makes his play for her offering her protection and as payment she would be his...she refuses him in front of the loner making it obvious that she wants the loner instead...the loner accepts."No gratitude. I'm getting something in return." His blue eyes seemed to impale her. "Right?"She gulped. "Right."Cain takes her. The first time it was payment...but every time after she wanted to be with Cain. He protected her, fed her, was her companion. There isn't much to do in the Hold...Nothing to do but fight for food, territory and mates. The perfect circumstances for turning human beings into animals.She learned very little about him every day...he still wasn't much of a speaker...It was ironic that he said he didn't like to be boxed in. He was boxed in here. In the cell. In the hold. On this hellish, inescapable planet.He once asked her..."Why me?"......she told him the truth in the dark. "You're the strongest one here."He helped her survive in the Hold..."You need to toughen up.""I know."She knew she had to keep Cain happy...Sex was all she had. And it was the only thing keeping her safe.They both started to feel...the ending was great, total HEA and the epilogue made me smile.Good read!!