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The Elect #1
Protector
He will protect her. No matter the threat.
The Elect. They aren’t human. They’re the next step in evolution and they’re hiding in plain sight. They’re stronger, smarter, and faster. Nature’s perfect predator.
Welcome to the top of the food chain.
Braxton Lee is the protector of the Elect and it’s a job he takes seriously. As president of the committee that governs the Elect, he overseas everything from finance to security to keeping their existence hidden. He’s driven and ruthless. The Elect will not be exposed on his watch.
Unfortunately his research chief, Zach Littman, is contacted by a former colleague who’s run a DNA analysis of a blood sample and gotten weird results. The blood isn’t human, and Dr. Esme Durand is smart enough to know it. Brax will do whatever it takes to keep her silent. Until he meets her. Because Esme has a secret. She’s one of them. Brax wants nothing more but to bring her into the fold and into his bed.
This book contains hot sex, the next evolution of mankind, hot sex, a race to find a bad guy, a hot hero trying to prove his love, and did I mention the hot sex?
The Elect. They aren’t human. They’re the next step in evolution and they’re hiding in plain sight. They’re stronger, smarter, and faster. Nature’s perfect predator.
Welcome to the top of the food chain.
Braxton Lee is the protector of the Elect and it’s a job he takes seriously. As president of the committee that governs the Elect, he overseas everything from finance to security to keeping their existence hidden. He’s driven and ruthless. The Elect will not be exposed on his watch.
Unfortunately his research chief, Zach Littman, is contacted by a former colleague who’s run a DNA analysis of a blood sample and gotten weird results. The blood isn’t human, and Dr. Esme Durand is smart enough to know it. Brax will do whatever it takes to keep her silent. Until he meets her. Because Esme has a secret. She’s one of them. Brax wants nothing more but to bring her into the fold and into his bed.
This book contains hot sex, the next evolution of mankind, hot sex, a race to find a bad guy, a hot hero trying to prove his love, and did I mention the hot sex?
109 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 26, 2012
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About the author
Loribelle Hunt
78 books188 followersAs a native of the South, is it any wonder Loribelle has a love of storytelling? She started writing seriously as a teenager and finished her first manuscript, a mystery, when she was nineteen. After a few bumps along the way and stints as an Army MP, a waitress, a book store manager, a student, and a wedding photographer, she turned to writing full time. Now she divides her time between a husband, three kids, writing, and a part‐time photography gig. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America and Passionate Ink.
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July 13, 2012
Perhaps the biggest problem with this story were my expectations. I've read this author before and really enjoyed the plot driven stories. So I had high expectations here.
Now, I looove stories where people end up having extrasensory powers. Mutants, aliens, paranormal, whatever explanation is fine by me. What I don't love is well trodden tropes showing up only to be, retrodden in the same way that countless of stories have already done before.
~Alpha-hole hero? Check.
~Mates (with the alpha-hole just 'knowing')? Hurl. Err, I mean check.
~Beautiful, smart, extra-sensory talented heroine? Check. Check. Check.
~Heroine who just longs to be 'human'? Oh come on! Check.
~Heroine who just happens to also be a virgin? Are you effing kidding me!?
~Heroine who couldn't stand to touch people but now can't keep her hands off hero and wants to jump his bones every other page? FUBAR. Just FUBAR.
~Heroine who gets all pouty because she wasn't the one to solve her nephew's medical problem? Get the frak out and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I finished this because I was on an elliptical machine at the gym and I've never had 75 min go by so fast. It's probably because my brain was focused on the wtfery I was reading and nothing else. I guess I'm mostly disappointed in that there is great potential in this universe but it was mired by stupid tropes and gratuitous, pointless sex.
Now, I looove stories where people end up having extrasensory powers. Mutants, aliens, paranormal, whatever explanation is fine by me. What I don't love is well trodden tropes showing up only to be, retrodden in the same way that countless of stories have already done before.
~Alpha-hole hero? Check.
~Mates (with the alpha-hole just 'knowing')? Hurl. Err, I mean check.
~Beautiful, smart, extra-sensory talented heroine? Check. Check. Check.
~Heroine who just longs to be 'human'? Oh come on! Check.
~Heroine who just happens to also be a virgin? Are you effing kidding me!?
~Heroine who couldn't stand to touch people but now can't keep her hands off hero and wants to jump his bones every other page? FUBAR. Just FUBAR.
~Heroine who gets all pouty because she wasn't the one to solve her nephew's medical problem? Get the frak out and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I finished this because I was on an elliptical machine at the gym and I've never had 75 min go by so fast. It's probably because my brain was focused on the wtfery I was reading and nothing else. I guess I'm mostly disappointed in that there is great potential in this universe but it was mired by stupid tropes and gratuitous, pointless sex.
June 24, 2012
Protector is a paranormal book that really doesn’t feel all that different from the everyday world in which we all live. The focus of this story is that over the last three generation there seems to have been a jump in the evolution of the humanoid and this new race calls themselves the Elect.
I don’t want to give away too much information about the plot of this book and will refer you to the description from the Publisher because they do a good job. This is a good beginning to a new series. I was drawn in and cared about all the characters from the moment they were introduced. The main couple Brax and Esme are hot together and steam up the pages!
My one warning is that this is a novella, so there is a lot packed into only about a hundred pages. It seemed to me that the book just ended! I didn’t know that it was a novella, but as I looked into it further it seems that this book is the first of a trilogy. So, while the book just ended and has me thinking of this as cliffhanger, I would definitely recommend this book to those who like PNR with some definite sizzle between an Alpha male and a brilliant scientist, who just happens to be a lady. Be warned, when you finish this story you will want more right now!!!!!
I don’t want to give away too much information about the plot of this book and will refer you to the description from the Publisher because they do a good job. This is a good beginning to a new series. I was drawn in and cared about all the characters from the moment they were introduced. The main couple Brax and Esme are hot together and steam up the pages!
My one warning is that this is a novella, so there is a lot packed into only about a hundred pages. It seemed to me that the book just ended! I didn’t know that it was a novella, but as I looked into it further it seems that this book is the first of a trilogy. So, while the book just ended and has me thinking of this as cliffhanger, I would definitely recommend this book to those who like PNR with some definite sizzle between an Alpha male and a brilliant scientist, who just happens to be a lady. Be warned, when you finish this story you will want more right now!!!!!
July 11, 2012
Wait, what? This is a novella?! Well dammit all! This has waaaay too many sex scenes for a novella! Surprisingly though, there is still a plot, and it carries all the way through the end...Having said that, there's also no real conclusion...for me it felt like , when the last chapter ended( just when. As starting to get into the actual story), I turned the page looking for the next one and got the 'about the author' page instead...talk about confused...and not a little bit irritating.
Anyway, story wise...huh...I don't remember all tha much..?we sorta of jump in right where the synopsis leaves off.. The Smarty pants h knows the blood sample she's got isn't human, and someone or someones bad are after her, Enter the Hero...who takes one whiff of eau de heroine and BAM! Let the instalove begin!- I think the H rescues her before any action( of the spicier variety) actually happens, but can't be sure...then he intro's her to his peoples, and a little bit of progress is made re: the baddies who are after her...all that takes up like 25 % of story...the rest in pretty much sex scene after sex scene...
LB did do a good job spacing them out though: Sex scene. Plot progression. Repeat...all the way to the "end".
So yeah, not much else to say so...
Somewhere b/w 2.5 stars and 3.
Anyway, story wise...huh...I don't remember all tha much..?we sorta of jump in right where the synopsis leaves off.. The Smarty pants h knows the blood sample she's got isn't human, and someone or someones bad are after her, Enter the Hero...who takes one whiff of eau de heroine and BAM! Let the instalove begin!- I think the H rescues her before any action( of the spicier variety) actually happens, but can't be sure...then he intro's her to his peoples, and a little bit of progress is made re: the baddies who are after her...all that takes up like 25 % of story...the rest in pretty much sex scene after sex scene...
LB did do a good job spacing them out though: Sex scene. Plot progression. Repeat...all the way to the "end".
So yeah, not much else to say so...
Somewhere b/w 2.5 stars and 3.
January 10, 2015
A hidden group of people who are the next stage in evolution has fascinated sci-fi fans in properties from X-Men to Heroes. But these novellas do little to develop characters along with the world-building. The insta-mate trope appears immediately, with alpha males who find protecting their female mates biologically necessary. It's disappointing to think the next generation would return to acting like cavemen (and women would find it sexy). The sex is hot, interactions between the couples cool it right off with extreme alpha male posturing.
Summary: In this three-novella anthology, Dr. Esme Durand discovers a secret community of the next stage of human evolution and its leader, Braxton Lee. In her attempt to save her nephew, Esme learns she and her brother are also Elect -- and people are hunting them. Her colleague is also Elect, and he's estranged from his mate, Mallory, who infiltrates the organization hunting the Elect. And finally, Esme's brother Carter reunites with the mother of his son -- after they've rescued her from her captors.
(Review is for entire 3-novella anthology)
Summary: In this three-novella anthology, Dr. Esme Durand discovers a secret community of the next stage of human evolution and its leader, Braxton Lee. In her attempt to save her nephew, Esme learns she and her brother are also Elect -- and people are hunting them. Her colleague is also Elect, and he's estranged from his mate, Mallory, who infiltrates the organization hunting the Elect. And finally, Esme's brother Carter reunites with the mother of his son -- after they've rescued her from her captors.
(Review is for entire 3-novella anthology)
September 29, 2016
It wasn't the best I've ever read from this author, but it was an interesting storyline, good enough for me to go ahead and get the other two books in the trilogy(?) series(?). I think it would've been a whole lot better if the characters and events had been delved into deeper than they were. Graphic sex, graphic violence.
September 29, 2012
Can't even finish this. Great premise, but lacking substance, and unfortunately, full of unlikable characters and the standard genre tropes of racy romances. Prose-wise, the author has a solid writing style, but it's not enough to get me to the end.
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June 29, 2012Gennie's review posted on Guilty Pleasures
July 2, 2012
I was sucked into this book by hook and crook, and all of a sudden, it was just over! WTH?!? You can't do this to us! It's just wrong! *pouts*
December 18, 2012
Nice...does leave you wishing for a bit more. So I immediately got the next one and read it...which made it feel like I had read one longer story...waiting for the third one now.
November 24, 2014
First read: September 2013
Reread: November 2014
Reread: November 2014
October 19, 2013
I enjoyed the premise and the chemistry in this read. My big problem was that it seemed to end half way through. Just as the story was developing.... That was it. Disappointed.
November 2, 2013
A strong beginning-new PNR series about "The Elect", humans naturally farther along Earth's evolutionary scale.
November 5, 2017
Reread, Nov, 2017. Good start...serial...no real resolution...just lots of questions.
January 13, 2013
3.5 stars
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