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Phantom Warriors #1
Bacchus
RE-EDITED AND EXPANDED
Bacchus is a desperate Phantom warrior. Saddled with the quest to find a sexually compatible female race for his people, he stows away on a ship bound for planet Earth. There he discovers a world teeming with women, but there’s only one way to determine if any of them are a biological match. He must pick one and mate with her. Sex sounds easy enough or it would be, if Bacchus weren’t from the Blood Clan. Where on Earth can he find a woman who doesn’t freak out at the sight of three-inch fangs?
Dog breeder Carrie Rittner has had a rough year. Between a broken engagement and her emotionally distant brother, Buzz, she’s ready to throw in the towel. The last thing she needs is a sexy ‘psychiatrist’ trying to charm her pants off.
It’ll take more than Bacchus’ chemically charged pheromones, dominant nature and forked tongue to convince Carrie that they’re made for each other. He will have to release all his animal instincts and give her the ultimate love bite.
***Warning: This title contains adult language, explicit sex, and rough sex. In other words...sex! Also contains persuasive seduction which might offend some readers.***
Bacchus is a desperate Phantom warrior. Saddled with the quest to find a sexually compatible female race for his people, he stows away on a ship bound for planet Earth. There he discovers a world teeming with women, but there’s only one way to determine if any of them are a biological match. He must pick one and mate with her. Sex sounds easy enough or it would be, if Bacchus weren’t from the Blood Clan. Where on Earth can he find a woman who doesn’t freak out at the sight of three-inch fangs?
Dog breeder Carrie Rittner has had a rough year. Between a broken engagement and her emotionally distant brother, Buzz, she’s ready to throw in the towel. The last thing she needs is a sexy ‘psychiatrist’ trying to charm her pants off.
It’ll take more than Bacchus’ chemically charged pheromones, dominant nature and forked tongue to convince Carrie that they’re made for each other. He will have to release all his animal instincts and give her the ultimate love bite.
***Warning: This title contains adult language, explicit sex, and rough sex. In other words...sex! Also contains persuasive seduction which might offend some readers.***
107 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 20, 2006
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Jordan Summers
65 books182 followersJordan Summers is an ex-flight attendant with a penchant for huge bookstores and big, dumb action movies. She prefers quite dinners with friends over maddening crowds. Happily married to her very own Highlander, she splits her time with her husband between two continents.
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November 12, 2009
Wow. I'm shocked that I finished. Truly awful. Just because an erotica story is short and has hardly any character developement does not justify such ridiculous, tacky, and terrible writing. Recommended for people interested in thinly veiled bestiality. What is with this trend in erotica?
May 3, 2015
1.5
Ah man, it took me forever to choose a book to read. Nothing struck my fancy. I'd had a hum-dinger of a day and was feeling the lingering after-effects of a torrential crying jag. I was emotionally wrung out, both physically and psychologically—the puffy eyes, the sniffly nose, the hollow, washed out sensation left in the wake of the intense flood of adrenaline (or whatever) that drives an angry, hurt, psychic upheaval.
This is where I was when I tried to pick out a book to read and nothing seemed to appeal. I finally settled on this one because it looked ridiculous enough to drag a chuckle out of me and, failing that, maybe a little hot sex would improve my mood. (Certainly, it would have in real life, if only hubs hadn't been the focal point of the problem in the first place.) It should be noted, of course, that I didn't go in expecting serious and high brow literature, which is good because I sure didn't get it.
Even starting this book with no more expectations than to get to laugh at the always pleasantly cheesy 'Mars Needs Women' trope I wasn't satisfied with this read. Ok, yes, it had all the elements and some of them were presented in such a flat way as to be funny. (You know, like when someone says something patently ludicrous with a straight face.) But there was just no depth to anything in this book. And, again, I'm saying that even having opened it not expecting much.
For example, and this is a bit of a spoiler, so be warned: Bacchus arrives on a ship bound for earth (so his planet already has access to earth, so no idea why he's the first to mate an earth women and why he has to sneak to do it), he randomly chooses a man on the beach to absorb his memories so he can understand earth customs. He then falls in love with the memories of this random man's sister. He then goes to her house, looks in the window and falls into insta-mating-lust, he meets her and within about 2-3 hours they're in bed, he's imprinted his DNA into her and they're off to his home world. Once there, since she was a herpetologist on earth she was able to immediately become the clan healer.
Seriously, on a planet of 7+ billion people (assuming there hasn't been a population increase) and a galaxy of who knows how many he meets his destined, biological mate through the first human he interacts with! And, am really to believe that space fairing, blood-dependent, bipedal, humanoid aliens with minor snake-like characteristics are actually closer to reptile than human and there are so few differences that no one on their original home-world was better suited to fill the healer role than a non-practicing earth herpetologist? WTF?
So I didn't get any fun searching for his mate scenes or getting to know that mate ones either. Just BAM, there she is. And the mating included as transfer of memories, so no need to get to know one another either.
Sex was just as abortive. His pheromones made her pliant and aroused, so no need for for-play (despite his massive cock, apparently). It was basically, stick it in and slam it home, BAM, we're done here.
Then there were all the just plain creepy things that happen. He spies on her through her windows, then slips into her house and watches her undress and shower. Creeeeepeer. Then he used his pheromones to make her willing, remaining just this side of dub-con based on his intent and wish to have her come willingly. And come on, getting aroused over watching two dogs mate is just weird.
So, I was looking for a fun, cheesy, erotic sci-fi romp. This had the cheese, but failed on just about every other front. Writing was passable; editing could use a little work.
Ah man, it took me forever to choose a book to read. Nothing struck my fancy. I'd had a hum-dinger of a day and was feeling the lingering after-effects of a torrential crying jag. I was emotionally wrung out, both physically and psychologically—the puffy eyes, the sniffly nose, the hollow, washed out sensation left in the wake of the intense flood of adrenaline (or whatever) that drives an angry, hurt, psychic upheaval.
This is where I was when I tried to pick out a book to read and nothing seemed to appeal. I finally settled on this one because it looked ridiculous enough to drag a chuckle out of me and, failing that, maybe a little hot sex would improve my mood. (Certainly, it would have in real life, if only hubs hadn't been the focal point of the problem in the first place.) It should be noted, of course, that I didn't go in expecting serious and high brow literature, which is good because I sure didn't get it.
Even starting this book with no more expectations than to get to laugh at the always pleasantly cheesy 'Mars Needs Women' trope I wasn't satisfied with this read. Ok, yes, it had all the elements and some of them were presented in such a flat way as to be funny. (You know, like when someone says something patently ludicrous with a straight face.) But there was just no depth to anything in this book. And, again, I'm saying that even having opened it not expecting much.
For example, and this is a bit of a spoiler, so be warned: Bacchus arrives on a ship bound for earth (so his planet already has access to earth, so no idea why he's the first to mate an earth women and why he has to sneak to do it), he randomly chooses a man on the beach to absorb his memories so he can understand earth customs. He then falls in love with the memories of this random man's sister. He then goes to her house, looks in the window and falls into insta-mating-lust, he meets her and within about 2-3 hours they're in bed, he's imprinted his DNA into her and they're off to his home world. Once there, since she was a herpetologist on earth she was able to immediately become the clan healer.
Seriously, on a planet of 7+ billion people (assuming there hasn't been a population increase) and a galaxy of who knows how many he meets his destined, biological mate through the first human he interacts with! And, am really to believe that space fairing, blood-dependent, bipedal, humanoid aliens with minor snake-like characteristics are actually closer to reptile than human and there are so few differences that no one on their original home-world was better suited to fill the healer role than a non-practicing earth herpetologist? WTF?
So I didn't get any fun searching for his mate scenes or getting to know that mate ones either. Just BAM, there she is. And the mating included as transfer of memories, so no need to get to know one another either.
Sex was just as abortive. His pheromones made her pliant and aroused, so no need for for-play (despite his massive cock, apparently). It was basically, stick it in and slam it home, BAM, we're done here.
Then there were all the just plain creepy things that happen. He spies on her through her windows, then slips into her house and watches her undress and shower. Creeeeepeer. Then he used his pheromones to make her willing, remaining just this side of dub-con based on his intent and wish to have her come willingly. And come on, getting aroused over watching two dogs mate is just weird.
So, I was looking for a fun, cheesy, erotic sci-fi romp. This had the cheese, but failed on just about every other front. Writing was passable; editing could use a little work.
July 13, 2011
Ummm, why I read this?
Guilty pleasure? LOL! At last when you read erotica, you can't hope to find an interesting story to keep you reading. So why I read this until finish?
Well, this novella is short and it just a guilty pleasures after all ,then I don't like the idea of this book. Reptilian-vampire alien, red sperm (yikes!!) and watching dogs mating make the heroine turn on? Ewwwwww...>.<
Please wash it from my brain....
Guilty pleasure? LOL! At last when you read erotica, you can't hope to find an interesting story to keep you reading. So why I read this until finish?
Well, this novella is short and it just a guilty pleasures after all ,then I don't like the idea of this book. Reptilian-vampire alien, red sperm (yikes!!) and watching dogs mating make the heroine turn on? Ewwwwww...>.<
Please wash it from my brain....
September 19, 2014
The Phantom Warriors series of books has some issues. It's not the best written series or the most women's lib series out there. Don't get me wrong...the women in this series are all strong and smart women, but the general premise of the books is that the women are mated to the Phantom Warriors because they are compatible and then pheromones take over and they end up having sex, which furthers the mating, and then the women take on some of the genetic traits of the warriors they're mated to.
These are candy books. You know they aren't the best thing for you, but you can't put them down. You'll stay up late into the night reading and you'll move from one book to the next so you can find out what happens to each of these warriors.
My biggest complaint was that every book used the same exact language. Was the language bad? No. But when you buy these books as a boxed set and then you read seven of them in a row, you're going to get a little...tired. This is where a good, solid edit could come in handy.
But that said, the sex is hot, the warriors strong and completely and utterly protective of their mates, and the women have their own distinct personalities.
All in all, a nice way to pass the evening, even if they might not quite be worth losing sleep over.
These are candy books. You know they aren't the best thing for you, but you can't put them down. You'll stay up late into the night reading and you'll move from one book to the next so you can find out what happens to each of these warriors.
My biggest complaint was that every book used the same exact language. Was the language bad? No. But when you buy these books as a boxed set and then you read seven of them in a row, you're going to get a little...tired. This is where a good, solid edit could come in handy.
But that said, the sex is hot, the warriors strong and completely and utterly protective of their mates, and the women have their own distinct personalities.
All in all, a nice way to pass the evening, even if they might not quite be worth losing sleep over.
August 8, 2022
Una historia ligera, fuera de lo común y muy interesante. 😏
Bacchus un alienígena que debe revisar si las humanas son compatibles con los phantom ya que su raza podría extinguirse, al conocer a Jill sabe que es ella su compañera la única.
Disfruté este libro aunque hay una escena algo creepy (razón por la cual le dí 4 estrellitas) muy en lo personal no la resistí 😆, pero el libro en general es muy recomendable para aquell@s que aman los libros de romance alienígena.
Bacchus un alienígena que debe revisar si las humanas son compatibles con los phantom ya que su raza podría extinguirse, al conocer a Jill sabe que es ella su compañera la única.
Disfruté este libro aunque hay una escena algo creepy (razón por la cual le dí 4 estrellitas) muy en lo personal no la resistí 😆, pero el libro en general es muy recomendable para aquell@s que aman los libros de romance alienígena.
May 5, 2017
I almost didn't read this book because of the bad reviews let me just say it's not beastiality granted they do watch dogs mate and get turned on but the main people are not animals having sex well the hero is reptilian forked tongue red silted eyes three hearts but I liked this book it was erotica lots of sex voyeurism omg sexxxxxxxy enjoy
October 27, 2017
Wasn't bad
This story wasn't too bad. I liked the snake alien theme. You don't see that too often. A little steamy in parts. Just a little too short.
This story wasn't too bad. I liked the snake alien theme. You don't see that too often. A little steamy in parts. Just a little too short.
February 28, 2019
Short story but good & wondering which book is the 1 with the Atlantean's Queen
March 18, 2019
Dnf 8%
February 18, 2021
Nice short read .
December 28, 2017
(Explícito) Completamente absurda la trama pero tiene romance y un final feliz. Demasiado corto, simple y sin ningún problema. Le faltó más intriga.
March 3, 2014
Bacchus lives on a planet where they have a shortage of women. He was given a mission to find a planet that has females that they can mate with. When he first gets to earth he see's a woman then a man that he can sense likes her so he reads the mans thoughts and memories to learn about interactions between men and women on the planet and that's when he see's the man's ex fiancé Jill. He is drawn to her and he has to find her. He has a feeling that she is his mate.
Jill studied Reptiles in college but that is not what she does for her work. She does dog training classes and dog breeding for the owners. She has not really lived her life since the death of her brother and her fiancé leaving her. When a man shows up claiming to know her ex he reluctantly spends time with him. She finds herself very attracted to him, extremely so and finds it a little odd.
Bacchus only has a short amount of time to find out if Jill is his mate and convince her to go to his planet with him. In order to find out if she is his mate he has to put her through a series of tests that she doesn't know about. One of them is giving her his other form also which is a Reptile. Will Bacchus be successful or will Jill decide she wants to stay on earth.
I thought that this was a good book. I found one part in particular while Jill was breeding some dogs a bit weird and disturbing , which is why I gave a 4 star review. Most shifter books deal with the usual shifters, wolves, cats, bears, etc... So for this one to have a Reptilian shifter was definitely different. As I was reading some of the other reviews for this book I seen a lot of poor reviews and everyone has their own opinion but keep in mind that this is a short story and it and the characters will not be as well developed as a longer Novel. I would definitely recommend reading this but I do hope that you keep in mind that again it is a short story and with it having a reptilian shifter it is different on many levels. I will be reading more from this author.
'Read and Reviewed by LSK Sweetheart Reviews'
Jill studied Reptiles in college but that is not what she does for her work. She does dog training classes and dog breeding for the owners. She has not really lived her life since the death of her brother and her fiancé leaving her. When a man shows up claiming to know her ex he reluctantly spends time with him. She finds herself very attracted to him, extremely so and finds it a little odd.
Bacchus only has a short amount of time to find out if Jill is his mate and convince her to go to his planet with him. In order to find out if she is his mate he has to put her through a series of tests that she doesn't know about. One of them is giving her his other form also which is a Reptile. Will Bacchus be successful or will Jill decide she wants to stay on earth.
I thought that this was a good book. I found one part in particular while Jill was breeding some dogs a bit weird and disturbing , which is why I gave a 4 star review. Most shifter books deal with the usual shifters, wolves, cats, bears, etc... So for this one to have a Reptilian shifter was definitely different. As I was reading some of the other reviews for this book I seen a lot of poor reviews and everyone has their own opinion but keep in mind that this is a short story and it and the characters will not be as well developed as a longer Novel. I would definitely recommend reading this but I do hope that you keep in mind that again it is a short story and with it having a reptilian shifter it is different on many levels. I will be reading more from this author.
'Read and Reviewed by LSK Sweetheart Reviews'
April 6, 2014
Bacchus lives on a planet where they have a shortage of women. He was given a mission to find a planet that has females that they can mate with. When he first gets to earth he see's a woman then a man that he can sense likes her so he reads the mans thoughts and memories to learn about interactions between men and women on the planet and that's when he see's the man's ex fiancé Jill. He is drawn to her and he has to find her. He has a feeling that she is his mate.
Jill studied Reptiles in college but that is not what she does for her work. She does dog training classes and dog breeding for the owners. She has not really lived her life since the death of her brother and her fiancé leaving her. When a man shows up claiming to know her ex he reluctantly spends time with him. She finds herself very attracted to him, extremely so and finds it a little odd.
Bacchus only has a short amount of time to find out if Jill is his mate and convince her to go to his planet with him. In order to find out if she is his mate he has to put her through a series of tests that she doesn't know about. One of them is giving her his other form also which is a Reptile. Will Bacchus be successful or will Jill decide she wants to stay on earth.
I thought that this was a good book. I found one part in particular while Jill was breeding some dogs a bit weird and disturbing , which is why I gave a 4 star review. Most shifter books deal with the usual shifters, wolves, cats, bears, etc... So for this one to have a Reptilian shifter was definitely different. As I was reading some of the other reviews for this book I seen a lot of poor reviews and everyone has their own opinion but keep in mind that this is a short story and it and the characters will not be as well developed as a longer Novel. I would definitely recommend reading this but I do hope that you keep in mind that again it is a short story and with it having a reptilian shifter it is different on many levels. I will be reading more from this author.
'Read and Reviewed by LSK Sweetheart Reviews'
Jill studied Reptiles in college but that is not what she does for her work. She does dog training classes and dog breeding for the owners. She has not really lived her life since the death of her brother and her fiancé leaving her. When a man shows up claiming to know her ex he reluctantly spends time with him. She finds herself very attracted to him, extremely so and finds it a little odd.
Bacchus only has a short amount of time to find out if Jill is his mate and convince her to go to his planet with him. In order to find out if she is his mate he has to put her through a series of tests that she doesn't know about. One of them is giving her his other form also which is a Reptile. Will Bacchus be successful or will Jill decide she wants to stay on earth.
I thought that this was a good book. I found one part in particular while Jill was breeding some dogs a bit weird and disturbing , which is why I gave a 4 star review. Most shifter books deal with the usual shifters, wolves, cats, bears, etc... So for this one to have a Reptilian shifter was definitely different. As I was reading some of the other reviews for this book I seen a lot of poor reviews and everyone has their own opinion but keep in mind that this is a short story and it and the characters will not be as well developed as a longer Novel. I would definitely recommend reading this but I do hope that you keep in mind that again it is a short story and with it having a reptilian shifter it is different on many levels. I will be reading more from this author.
'Read and Reviewed by LSK Sweetheart Reviews'
September 10, 2014
I read this book and the rest of the series before reading her Atlantean series. Not necessary to read that series first but will help later when characters are mentioned. Overall it was a good book, one that can be read in a day, great beach book. Is the story plausible, no, but that's why its called fantasy. Kept my interest enough for me to read the rest of the series.
September 28, 2014
Bacchus by Jordan Summers
I wish is was a little longer. After reading the newer re-edited edition I went back and read this and I can appreciate more. It's sexier and after all it is erotica.
Still not crazy about the reptile aspect but I can over look it.
I wish is was a little longer. After reading the newer re-edited edition I went back and read this and I can appreciate more. It's sexier and after all it is erotica.
Still not crazy about the reptile aspect but I can over look it.
February 2, 2014
I was really surprised by this book. It was so much more than I was expecting. I loved the chemistry between these two. There was so much sexual tension and anticipation that I felt like my kindle would blow up. The whole series is like this. Jordan Summers still rocks!
September 2, 2014
After reading hundreds of vampire and shifter romances, it was a little startling to read one with a snake hybrid. I'm still not too sure about the whole snake alpha male, but the writing was good and the romance was decent. I would read more from this author.
October 8, 2014
Fun Sexy Read
nice easy short read
a bit predictable, would have been better with a bit more character development and story details but sweet and romantic.
I'd definitely recommend it to others.
nice easy short read
a bit predictable, would have been better with a bit more character development and story details but sweet and romantic.
I'd definitely recommend it to others.
December 15, 2011
Eh..... really short, not much development of characters or story.
February 18, 2012
I don't like the way the heroin turn to be like the alien ... too easy ... and also too easy for him to mate with her ...
In the same time, it's a short story so ...
In the same time, it's a short story so ...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 14, 2014
I think if she would have left out the part with the dogs having sex this book would have been really good. I still liked it, but it had a bit of a creep factor..
May 22, 2012
Though it was short I actually enjoyed reading it:) Now time to read the one:)
July 22, 2012
This was a Good book but I felt it could have been bigger.. I read the whole book in an hr. :-(
October 3, 2013
Aaahhh
Could I not be some off worlders perfect mate?
I want to leave this world behind
Could I not be some off worlders perfect mate?
I want to leave this world behind
October 13, 2013
what a wacky story!! a male character half vampire half snake! still I find him kinda cute. It was ok for a short story.
March 11, 2014
Delicious and straight to the point! I enjoyed it
November 6, 2020
This one crosses too many consent lines. Even if you can ignore that, the sex is on the squicky side for my tastes.
September 7, 2014
Okay premise, but there were some problems. There were a few continuation errors in the story which took me out of the story.
September 9, 2014
Incredibly implausible but fun
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