Why is love always so complicated? And what is this heat… He was supposed to sell me, but I can’t stop myself from crawling to him, begging, and whimpering for more. To my shame, something is forcing my body to change and I’m craving his touch. My only companion is a snarky, talking sword. I will escape, but I’m trapped on this huge, fossilized starship. I should be curled up in a ball sobbing, but that’s not me. I’m a grocery store assistant and my name is Isolde.
Until the night I’m scooped up by a clawed and fanged alien called a mauleon. I never thought I had any weird or amazing destiny. This is one packed-to-the-gills adventure involving sentient swords, #OrcsOnABus, Wendetta’s, hiding in lost storage rooms with lost storage container lids and sex.
As well as a lust-fuelled, kinky romance there is also the ubiquitous quest to undertake, in this case the pursuit of personhood. It does, however, read standalone and is set in space rather than the home planet, featured in Ruled, Condemned and Judged: A Dark Sci-fi Romance. This pair utterly captivated me, we see them grow and adapt to the changes in their lives set against a backdrop of mystery, intrigue and the fight against bureaucracy.Īs already mentioned, this features the much loved leonine Mauleon male. She was definitely a girl who made lemonade from the lemons of life. Isolde was just as wonderful a main character, slightly mad, utterly submissive, determinedly strong and full of fire. Gideon is one seriously gorgeous Mauleon and despite the fact that he started off as very much the bad guy, what with kidnapping Earth girls and the like, he soon earned his redemption, proving himself to be an absolute delightful hero – blue nodules and all. Great writing, fabulous characters and a wonderful plot all add up to one crazy good read.
It also felt incredibly hot and smutilicious, with smexy times that will have you getting through a bumper pack of AA batteries, * wink wink*. I’m sure she’d object vociferously to the word “sweet”, and rightly so, but given how dub-con and dark most of her work is this felt quite light in comparison.
With the exception of Rough Surrender this is probably the sweetest story the author has written.
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