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Highjacked Heart
Carjacked. Tyne's taken from a world he knows and thrust into one he cannot comprehend. To save himself - and everything around him - he must conquer confusion, regret, and his past. His only ally, a cold madman who commands terrifying powers: his abductor.
Status: Complete
Word count: approx. 147,884
Status: Complete
Word count: approx. 147,884
444 pages, ebook
First published August 30, 2010
3 people are currently reading
70 people want to read
About the author
mousegirl05
7 books9 followersMy warnings (the serious and not-so-serious):
(1) I am a sappy romantic so almost everything you find here will contain a measure if not a majority of sappy romance.
(2) I am not always very nice to my characters so you are liable to find touchy subjects, a lot of angst, pain, and a little suffering for flavor.
(3) That being said, I like all of my characters, so generally I give them what they want (even if they don't realize they want it right away). I will provide individualized warnings when my work strays from this.
(4) As I stated, I write mostly romance, and not all of that happens to be hetro. Some stories require the reader is unaware of which it is until the end so I will not include a blatant warning in each story that contains content that some find 'inappropriate'. Therefore, consider yourself warned here. In general though, it will be obvious.
(5) I am not the best when it comes to punctuation
Incidentally, the punctuation mistake on number (5) was unitentional, but funny, so I left it. o_
(1) I am a sappy romantic so almost everything you find here will contain a measure if not a majority of sappy romance.
(2) I am not always very nice to my characters so you are liable to find touchy subjects, a lot of angst, pain, and a little suffering for flavor.
(3) That being said, I like all of my characters, so generally I give them what they want (even if they don't realize they want it right away). I will provide individualized warnings when my work strays from this.
(4) As I stated, I write mostly romance, and not all of that happens to be hetro. Some stories require the reader is unaware of which it is until the end so I will not include a blatant warning in each story that contains content that some find 'inappropriate'. Therefore, consider yourself warned here. In general though, it will be obvious.
(5) I am not the best when it comes to punctuation
Incidentally, the punctuation mistake on number (5) was unitentional, but funny, so I left it. o_
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September 22, 2011
I absolutely *loved* the first few chapters, but when it became clearly a fantasy-genre story I grew bored fast. I found the names (Diamond Dragon vs Steel Rose, or guards called Battle Bulwarks) too 4th-grade-girls-book-club, and the characters were cardboard cutouts (i.e. spoiled brat Lord's daughter longing after unattainable gay seer: why? She has no personality or motivation so it's impossible to be upset for her when Tyne brushes her off). However the premise was a great idea; Shadow world factions employ psychics not to further peace, defeat some big evil, or for humankind's progress, but to tell them how to make more money in their real-world businesses! Yay capitalism! I was annoyed at the change in plot direction; Rave hijacking Tyne with a pistol, but later on we are told that Tyne hallucinated it, as Rave would never threaten him. It would make more sense, and still be consistent with the plotline, if Rave did use a pistol: he needed Tyne to return to the Shadow realms at all costs (for his own protection if nothing else). This seemed to me like the author changed their mind some time after writing the first few chapters. I also disliked the name change from Rave, to Kyrave, to Kyr: I don't care if it's explained, it screams "inexperienced writer" to me. I think the writer has enormous talent and I hope they keep producing work. With more experience and a good editor they should be outstanding.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 26, 2013
It was actually very good for unpublished free book. There are many published fantasy M-M romance novels that are less interesting. This story needs editing, but mostly in the writing department, because the plot and characters are rather solid and well done.
I had to struggle a bit with descriptions sometimes. Not because they were particularly long or boring, but mostly of the way they were executed: with some uncommonly used words, with lots of adjectives and in need of editing.
IMO the ending was a bit rushed. After pages and pages of preparation for the final battle the whole thing went down way too easy. I admit it is a common thing in most books for some reason. Perhaps the author was tired of writing the story :-)
In romance novels the Happy Ending is expected, so the point is the journey, not the destination. It is important to tie your loose ends properly though. I suppose the author was too absorbed in creating the bond between MCs that she didn't pay attention to other things.
When you have magic in the story, you want to see it used. There should have been a bit more magic action. But that is my personal opinion. I guess, I am forever spoiled by Harry Potter :-)
There are also some minor plot holes (but they are fixable with a bit of editing):
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I must warn those who love M-M romance novels with lots of sex scenes that you won't find it here. There are no pages-long descriptions of hot sex between men. This is not a porn fantasy. Rather it's a fantasy with two gay main characters. They do kiss and snuggle and make love, but it is not the core of the story.
Their feeling for each other is what important here. Both of them are beings from another realm and in their world different laws apply. One of them is linked to another by more than just his love. It is similar to being mates, yet not exactly. However, severing the bond is just as dangerous and deadly as it is between mates.
There is a little bit of everything. Even time traveling. It would have been interesting to read about Tyne at age 14. Especially about the time prior to him running away. From the story you can see that he was a difficult child, but never completely bad or good. And what good he had in him he used to do what was right at the time even though it hurt people who loved him the most.
If you liked this story, here are some other books that I find similar to Highjacked Heart in one way or another:
1) Aisling series
2) Dreamlands series
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I had to struggle a bit with descriptions sometimes. Not because they were particularly long or boring, but mostly of the way they were executed: with some uncommonly used words, with lots of adjectives and in need of editing.
IMO the ending was a bit rushed. After pages and pages of preparation for the final battle the whole thing went down way too easy. I admit it is a common thing in most books for some reason. Perhaps the author was tired of writing the story :-)
In romance novels the Happy Ending is expected, so the point is the journey, not the destination. It is important to tie your loose ends properly though. I suppose the author was too absorbed in creating the bond between MCs that she didn't pay attention to other things.
When you have magic in the story, you want to see it used. There should have been a bit more magic action. But that is my personal opinion. I guess, I am forever spoiled by Harry Potter :-)
There are also some minor plot holes (but they are fixable with a bit of editing):
1)
2)
3)
4)
I must warn those who love M-M romance novels with lots of sex scenes that you won't find it here. There are no pages-long descriptions of hot sex between men. This is not a porn fantasy. Rather it's a fantasy with two gay main characters. They do kiss and snuggle and make love, but it is not the core of the story.
Their feeling for each other is what important here. Both of them are beings from another realm and in their world different laws apply. One of them is linked to another by more than just his love. It is similar to being mates, yet not exactly. However, severing the bond is just as dangerous and deadly as it is between mates.
There is a little bit of everything. Even time traveling. It would have been interesting to read about Tyne at age 14. Especially about the time prior to him running away. From the story you can see that he was a difficult child, but never completely bad or good. And what good he had in him he used to do what was right at the time even though it hurt people who loved him the most.
If you liked this story, here are some other books that I find similar to Highjacked Heart in one way or another:
1) Aisling series
2) Dreamlands series
3)
4)
5)
6)
June 16, 2011
The blurb & title are misleading. The highjacking only takes place in the first 2 (of 30+) chapters, and is not Stockholm Syndrome-ish at all. That said, it's a very interesting fantasy/sci-fi scenario, I can't compare it to anything I've read except some Harry Potter fanfics that I've read, although I admit I am only a prolific sci-fi/fantasy reader, so I don't have that much to compare it to. Hero Tyne is a seer (naturally the youngest and most powerful) who falls in love with his First Bulwark Kyrave (which is somewhat of a taboo). Tyne escaped from his world for a time and forgot everything he was and has to relearn his duties as a seer and his status in society. He does that & gets kidnapped by a hostile neighboring seer. After escaping from that situation he eventually has a vision of the future which is too horrible to be borne & he and his cohorts deal with that. So hopefully there are not too many spoilers in that synopsis. It is alternately plotty and romantic, and they do have sex, but you don't have a front row seat, just fade to black sort of thing.
April 21, 2012
The first half/story arc was alright. I kind of liked the whole concept of bulwarks & their completers, though it (battle bulwarks+completer) also kind of reminds me of the manga Loveless. The MC seemed a little on the tstl side, but I suppose he gets some slack since he's thrown into a completely foreign environment where the laws of physics/nature don't work as he knows it and no one will explain anything to him.
Then the second story arc started and both the MC and his love interest lost all common sense, it seemed like, especially when it came to the cheating/rape incident. I mean, MC encounters a servant acting odd, drinks something the odd servant gives him, goes to bed, things start getting surreal or dream-like, he thinks he's sleeping with his lover but then wakes up to some strange woman in his bed along with a really bad headache and a furious lover, yet he never, not once, thinks something fishy's going on? Seriously? He's never heard of date rape drugs and can't figure out how he could've ended up in bed with someone not his lover, whom he can't even live without, even when he knows he's got enemies and people willing to do horrible things to him? After his lover breaks up (kind of) with him, does he even try to figure out what the hell happened? No, and he won't even ask anyone for any kind of help.
As for MC's lover, well, what a dickhead. He's got some sort of mystical bond to the love of his life, the MC, so he can pretty much tell what MC's thinking or feeling, which means he should be able to sense that the MC's not lying about it, that the whole thing is causing the MC just as much pain, but does he find the situation at all suspicious or try to figure out what happened and how it happened? No. He just breaks it off and then proceeds to let himself and the MC suffer.
It just became impossible for me to like either character after that. The writing is pretty decent and the world the author's created is interesting enough, though it doesn't seem very fleshed out (no explanations for these weird powers, how they work, why they exist, where they come from, what the moon has to do with anything), but I just couldn't get into the storyline and the characters.
Then the second story arc started and both the MC and his love interest lost all common sense, it seemed like, especially when it came to the cheating/rape incident. I mean, MC encounters a servant acting odd, drinks something the odd servant gives him, goes to bed, things start getting surreal or dream-like, he thinks he's sleeping with his lover but then wakes up to some strange woman in his bed along with a really bad headache and a furious lover, yet he never, not once, thinks something fishy's going on? Seriously? He's never heard of date rape drugs and can't figure out how he could've ended up in bed with someone not his lover, whom he can't even live without, even when he knows he's got enemies and people willing to do horrible things to him? After his lover breaks up (kind of) with him, does he even try to figure out what the hell happened? No, and he won't even ask anyone for any kind of help.
As for MC's lover, well, what a dickhead. He's got some sort of mystical bond to the love of his life, the MC, so he can pretty much tell what MC's thinking or feeling, which means he should be able to sense that the MC's not lying about it, that the whole thing is causing the MC just as much pain, but does he find the situation at all suspicious or try to figure out what happened and how it happened? No. He just breaks it off and then proceeds to let himself and the MC suffer.
It just became impossible for me to like either character after that. The writing is pretty decent and the world the author's created is interesting enough, though it doesn't seem very fleshed out (no explanations for these weird powers, how they work, why they exist, where they come from, what the moon has to do with anything), but I just couldn't get into the storyline and the characters.
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August 3, 2014
I suppose it's not bad. (I reread it, btw, since I remembered this not at all).
It's...nothing I haven't seen before, though. I went through it sorta feeling deja vu, but I wrote it down to the fact that I was apparently rereading it.
It's a bit more than just that, though.
It reminds me of something by Sara Douglass. The whole shadow realm, epitome of emptiness, something about kids there, growing up there, being birthed there...
That one thing...Wayfarer Redemption? Yes, that thing. I'll admit that I skimmed through the end.
So yeah, I guess it's not bad, and it had its own twist, but overall, I felt it seemed like a redux of Wayfarer Redemption (MC here is like a guy Faraday, see, except if she actually ended up with Axis and were happy, or something, and the kid from WR was actually their kid, and stuff, or something)
I mean, the whole bonding premise isn't WR, but the world sort of was.
Gah. I'm not explaining myself well. It wasn't bad. Even though the world reminded me a lot of the WR world, it's not like shadow worlds and dead zones are wholly novel tropes or anything.
It's...nothing I haven't seen before, though. I went through it sorta feeling deja vu, but I wrote it down to the fact that I was apparently rereading it.
It's a bit more than just that, though.
It reminds me of something by Sara Douglass. The whole shadow realm, epitome of emptiness, something about kids there, growing up there, being birthed there...
That one thing...Wayfarer Redemption? Yes, that thing. I'll admit that I skimmed through the end.
So yeah, I guess it's not bad, and it had its own twist, but overall, I felt it seemed like a redux of Wayfarer Redemption (MC here is like a guy Faraday, see, except if she actually ended up with Axis and were happy, or something, and the kid from WR was actually their kid, and stuff, or something)
I mean, the whole bonding premise isn't WR, but the world sort of was.
Gah. I'm not explaining myself well. It wasn't bad. Even though the world reminded me a lot of the WR world, it's not like shadow worlds and dead zones are wholly novel tropes or anything.
August 20, 2011
This story has lots of typos and errors, but since it's FREE I overlook them all and concentrate on the plot and characters. The writing compared to the other story I'd read by this author was not very good-more amateurish. There were lots of things that were not consistent from the first half to 2nd half of the story. It seemed the author changed her mind half way through.
In the first 2 chapters, we learnt that Tyne was carjacked. But things didn't seem what it looked like. He then was thrust into a world of supernatural, and had to learn about his real self.
I liked the world building a lot. It's packed with actions, romance, and court intrigue. But the pacing was not very good, after one scene we then learnt that 2 weeks/2 years had passed, moreover the characters didn't change much through that time.
Overall I liked it. But there were parts too melodramatic that made me cringe.
The sex was more faded to black which I liked.
In the first 2 chapters, we learnt that Tyne was carjacked. But things didn't seem what it looked like. He then was thrust into a world of supernatural, and had to learn about his real self.
I liked the world building a lot. It's packed with actions, romance, and court intrigue. But the pacing was not very good, after one scene we then learnt that 2 weeks/2 years had passed, moreover the characters didn't change much through that time.
Overall I liked it. But there were parts too melodramatic that made me cringe.
The sex was more faded to black which I liked.
September 23, 2011
Wonderful story. From a car jacking to another reality. What an amazing leap. The world building was wonderful and the symbiosis of seers and their bulwarks was understandable and fascinating at the same time. Highly recommended if you like alternate realities, overcoming ancient curses, ridding the world of a crazed evil, and true love triumphant!!!
November 8, 2012
This story definitely has some interesting surprises. I enjoyed it well enough, but I got half way through and couldn't be bothered to continue.
January 3, 2013
3.5 stars.
January 18, 2015
cute story
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