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Skybound #3
Sky Hunter
Jeret hasn’t looked back since running away from life as a crown prince and joining the Crux Ansata’s crew, but when the Ansata returns to his home system, he finds his father ill and a traitor maneuvering for control. Now that he’s a full-grown man, he can’t just walk away again.
Letting Jeret escape was the biggest black mark on bounty hunter Dagan Nu’aim’s otherwise distinguished years as a royal guard. When he catches Jeret back in-system, Dagan seizes the chance to regain his lost honor and bring the wayward prince home.
Jeret’s not so sure he wants to go, but the reignition of his old crush on Dagan complicates the issue. As the two unravel a tangled plot against the crown, their old friendship lights up with a fiery new desire. And when the traitor strikes and the two men must choose between duty and freedom, neither is certain which to pick.
Letting Jeret escape was the biggest black mark on bounty hunter Dagan Nu’aim’s otherwise distinguished years as a royal guard. When he catches Jeret back in-system, Dagan seizes the chance to regain his lost honor and bring the wayward prince home.
Jeret’s not so sure he wants to go, but the reignition of his old crush on Dagan complicates the issue. As the two unravel a tangled plot against the crown, their old friendship lights up with a fiery new desire. And when the traitor strikes and the two men must choose between duty and freedom, neither is certain which to pick.
137 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 22, 2013
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Fae Sutherland
29 books230 followersFae Sutherland is the award-winning, bestselling author of 30 M/M erotic romance novels - co-authored and solo. She also writes M/F erotic romance under a pen name.
When Fae's not working on new stories to make her readers sweat, she loves website design, spending too much time on Twitter, and watching oodles of Food Network with her beloved life partner. If there's any time left over, it's spent snuggling the cat.
When Fae's not working on new stories to make her readers sweat, she loves website design, spending too much time on Twitter, and watching oodles of Food Network with her beloved life partner. If there's any time left over, it's spent snuggling the cat.
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July 18, 2013
**3.5 stars**
I just can't highlight that fourth star, I just can't. I want to so badly because there is nothing wrong with this book (or this series) but it just isn't fully connecting for me
The third book in the Skybound series focuses on Jeret's story. Now, was I the only one who was wondering what happened to Kip? There was all of this flirtatious buildup and then... poof! A new love interest is introduced. I was a bit confused about that, actually. Anyway, I have been looking forward to Jeret's story for the whole series so I was doing a little happy dance when I got this book.
Let me ask you guys a question. How can someone get bored reading about a cute twinky guy get boned in outer space? How?! I shocked when, yet again, I started to find my mind drifting while reading this book. I am still not sure what about this book doesn't quite work for me. I like the characters and the atmosphere, I like the sex... I just can't bring myself to care that much. I think Fae Sutherland's dialogue is fun to read... However, this book, like the others before it, has something missing (I wish I knew what it was!!).
I think part of the problem is that the plot felt kind of like an afterthought. I figured out what this series reminds me of. It is like a lesser, gayer version of "The League" series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, a series that I happen to adore.
Was this book a worthwhile read? Yes, for sure. I think that this book was a fun, light entertaining way to spend an afternoon. However, I don't know if I'll remember it in a month.
**Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**
I just can't highlight that fourth star, I just can't. I want to so badly because there is nothing wrong with this book (or this series) but it just isn't fully connecting for me
The third book in the Skybound series focuses on Jeret's story. Now, was I the only one who was wondering what happened to Kip? There was all of this flirtatious buildup and then... poof! A new love interest is introduced. I was a bit confused about that, actually. Anyway, I have been looking forward to Jeret's story for the whole series so I was doing a little happy dance when I got this book.
Let me ask you guys a question. How can someone get bored reading about a cute twinky guy get boned in outer space? How?! I shocked when, yet again, I started to find my mind drifting while reading this book. I am still not sure what about this book doesn't quite work for me. I like the characters and the atmosphere, I like the sex... I just can't bring myself to care that much. I think Fae Sutherland's dialogue is fun to read... However, this book, like the others before it, has something missing (I wish I knew what it was!!).
I think part of the problem is that the plot felt kind of like an afterthought. I figured out what this series reminds me of. It is like a lesser, gayer version of "The League" series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, a series that I happen to adore.
Was this book a worthwhile read? Yes, for sure. I think that this book was a fun, light entertaining way to spend an afternoon. However, I don't know if I'll remember it in a month.
**Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**
July 22, 2013
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I really wanted to enjoy this story much more than I did. I loved Jeret in the earlier stories, and I was really looking forward to him getting his own book. I think my expectations might have been a bit high, and that was why I felt so disappointed in this book. Jeret had so much spark, and so much life in the earlier stories, and I felt like he lost so much of that in this story. I didn’t like how much of a damsel he seemed to become in this story, and the sex bored me to tears. This story seems to be so set in the het romance mold with Dagan playing “the man”, and Jeret cast as “the female,” and I am so sick of that. It feels stagnant, and outdated as it plays into all the old norms of masculine sexuality assertiveness and feminine sexual passivity. It was almost straight out of a 1980’s romance. Sure Jeret’s a bit spunky, but he still wants to be protected by his man. I have to say I didn’t really buy the relationship at all. It felt like more of a childhood crush something Jeret would have grown out of years ago then true love, or any sort of lasting bond.
I found myself annoyed by Dagan. His paternalistic attitude towards Jeret felt patronizing, and even a bit stifling. I didn’t like how he refused to use the name Jeret had chosen for himself, and by doing so seemed almost to refuse to acknowledge the life Jeret had built for himself, and the capable, and confident man Jeret had grown into. I didn’t like how Dagan wanted to do everything for Jeret instead of working together to solve Jeret’s problems. He felt too stuck on the boy Jeret had been rather than the man he had become. I found Dagan to be too set in his ways, and too rigid, and controlling in general. In a sense he seemed to be everything I don’t like in so many het and m/m love interests.
The plot felt tired, and clichéd, and almost more like an afterthought than the driving force of the story. The main antagonist was particularly thin. This person seemed so subtle, and careful in the beginning of the story only to completely fall apart in the end. The final confrontation was almost laughable. I’m sorry, but the person who arranged everything would not have had things end up like that. That was pathetic, and more than a bit anticlimactic. I was relieved that one plot point didn’t go the way I was afraid it might, but that’s about all that I enjoyed.
I enjoyed the other stories in this series more even though they shared many of the same elements of this story. I think it was just because after reading three books I had hoped something might have changed, and maybe just maybe the author might have moved beyond the simple, static sexual formula. I felt if anyone had a hope of breaking out of the rigidly defined roles it would have been Jeret, but he seems to lose his edge in this book, and become the same old schmoopey damsel that drove me away from het romance in the first place.
I really wanted to enjoy this story much more than I did. I loved Jeret in the earlier stories, and I was really looking forward to him getting his own book. I think my expectations might have been a bit high, and that was why I felt so disappointed in this book. Jeret had so much spark, and so much life in the earlier stories, and I felt like he lost so much of that in this story. I didn’t like how much of a damsel he seemed to become in this story, and the sex bored me to tears. This story seems to be so set in the het romance mold with Dagan playing “the man”, and Jeret cast as “the female,” and I am so sick of that. It feels stagnant, and outdated as it plays into all the old norms of masculine sexuality assertiveness and feminine sexual passivity. It was almost straight out of a 1980’s romance. Sure Jeret’s a bit spunky, but he still wants to be protected by his man. I have to say I didn’t really buy the relationship at all. It felt like more of a childhood crush something Jeret would have grown out of years ago then true love, or any sort of lasting bond.
I found myself annoyed by Dagan. His paternalistic attitude towards Jeret felt patronizing, and even a bit stifling. I didn’t like how he refused to use the name Jeret had chosen for himself, and by doing so seemed almost to refuse to acknowledge the life Jeret had built for himself, and the capable, and confident man Jeret had grown into. I didn’t like how Dagan wanted to do everything for Jeret instead of working together to solve Jeret’s problems. He felt too stuck on the boy Jeret had been rather than the man he had become. I found Dagan to be too set in his ways, and too rigid, and controlling in general. In a sense he seemed to be everything I don’t like in so many het and m/m love interests.
The plot felt tired, and clichéd, and almost more like an afterthought than the driving force of the story. The main antagonist was particularly thin. This person seemed so subtle, and careful in the beginning of the story only to completely fall apart in the end. The final confrontation was almost laughable. I’m sorry, but the person who arranged everything would not have had things end up like that. That was pathetic, and more than a bit anticlimactic. I was relieved that one plot point didn’t go the way I was afraid it might, but that’s about all that I enjoyed.
I enjoyed the other stories in this series more even though they shared many of the same elements of this story. I think it was just because after reading three books I had hoped something might have changed, and maybe just maybe the author might have moved beyond the simple, static sexual formula. I felt if anyone had a hope of breaking out of the rigidly defined roles it would have been Jeret, but he seems to lose his edge in this book, and become the same old schmoopey damsel that drove me away from het romance in the first place.
January 4, 2026
This made me all sorts of annoyed. I didn’t like anyone, a significant portion of the book was one MC refusing to acknowledge the other one’s new name and calling him by the old one, and insisting “that’s not who (new name MC) actually was”. It just felt ugh. Do not recommend.
Teach me to buy anything under $3 in the audible sales 😂🫠
Teach me to buy anything under $3 in the audible sales 😂🫠
July 22, 2013
Review posted at The Armchair Reader.
I've been looking forward to this Skybound series finale ever since the first book when I knew I wanted to read Jeret's story most. I think that a lot of other readers have felt that way too, at least from what I've seen. Of all the crew of the Annie, Jeret is the one who seems to have the most secrets. He's secretive himself, but enigmatic and funny at times, always with a smart quip in response to the others and always wanting to prove himself since he's the youngest and in many ways considered the baby on board by Torrin. Whether it was intended by the author for Jeret to become such a favorite, I'm not sure. But it does mean that a lot of people who read this series were eagerly awaiting his story, which gives this third book in the series a lot of pressure to stand up to.
Of all the secrets that Jeret could have had… I never expected that he's a runaway prince! That in itself was a surprise, that I wish that I had found out in the book and not the blurb. But, it's a good hook to bring people to the story, even if they haven't been reading the series up till now. The runaway prince is a solid character that always seems to draw in readers. Torrin, Rain and Jeret are the only ones left on the Annie after Cookie left in Sky Runners to live with his new love Neith, who the crew rescued from an intergalactic brothel where Neith had been sold and kept against his will as a whore. Now, with the crew reduced to three and two of those -- Torrin and Rain -- in a relationship themselves, Jeret feels a bit like the third wheel. Add in the fact that he was always seen as the baby of the crew anyway, and it had Jeret thinking about his past.
When Torrin announces that they're headed to a planet near the one that Jeret escaped from, he does everything he can to convince Torrin and Rain that heading for a job there is a bad idea, especially when he learns that Torrin has agreed to ferry a shipment that must have come from his home planet. Jeret knows that something is wrong if those on his planet are smuggling off the expensive ore, underneath the nose of the COP, but his caution is ignored by the others.
When they land on the nearby planet, Jeret has no idea that Dagan -- once the man who was his guard, his best friend, and the man who held his unrequited love as a 15 year old crown prince -- has resumed the search for the heir to the empire under the name of his king. When Jadakira (Jeret's real name) escaped as he always wanted to do at 15, Dagan lost everything. His failure to protect the prince led to the loss of his whole world and his ultimate banishment from the planet. But Dagan knows Jadi well and it only takes him six months to track his whereabouts and learn about his tenure as part of the Crux Ansata's crew.
But Jeret, no matter his remaining feelings for the man he once loved as a kid, will not allow anyone to return him to his home planet. He has never had a desire to be king and what he loves most is the mechanics of the Annie, his crew and their adventures in space. His birthright is a cage he escaped years ago. But when he learns that his father, the King, is dying and a traitor planetside is angling to steal the throne, Jeret knows that he has to find the culprit. But he'll fight Dagan and his "duty" to the King the whole way, and hopefully in the end be able to return to the life he wants to lead.
There are parts of this book that I really enjoyed. There is quite a bit of history between Jeret and Dagan and I thought that their relationship played out beautifully. Both are stubborn and refuse to budge from their ultimate goal: Jeret to return his home planet to the way it should be and then return to the crew of the Annie; and Dagan wants to help Jadi, still not quite understanding his true desires. The fact that Dagan failed in his duty all those years ago is a mark against his pride and he will do everything to return Jadi to his father before his death. The reconciliation of their desires takes most of the book and we really get to see their stubbornness play out against each other over and over, though not too far as to be frustrating. The push and pull between them gave the story the most enjoyment for me, because as the story evolves and they learn to work together for a common goal their true feelings come to matter more than their pride.
On the other hand, I was pretty disappointed in the external plot. The plot to overthrow the king and Jeret and Dagan's plan to ferret out the traitor. For most of the book the tension mounted and they moved closer and closer but the ending really fizzled for me. First, the traitor was not who I expected, but that was because I never felt as if they were introduced into the plot to even become a suspect. I'm not a big fan of when authors do that. The culprit should have been introduced much earlier. And second because the final confrontation, while a bit satisfying for the characters, seemed a bit… anticlimactic.
So the real interest for me in this story was Jeret, and his love interest Dagan. I enjoyed their back and forth courtship, and I will admit that the tension created by the external plot was more of a device to play into their feelings for one another than the other way around. I think that if you read this story alone, without reading the first two then you might not have the prior interest in the characters to make this a very satisfactory read. I read this because I'd read the first two, and I had an interest in learning more about Jeret. And while I did find what I wanted, this book as a complete story was a little bit disappointing.
So, I recommend this for those of you who, like me, have read both Sky Riders and Sky Runners. For all the books, I found the romances in them the best part of the books. Looking back at this as a series, I would have probably enjoyed more of a central story arc over the whole series that drew them together. But, they are the way they are ;) And I did find enjoyment from them.
I've been looking forward to this Skybound series finale ever since the first book when I knew I wanted to read Jeret's story most. I think that a lot of other readers have felt that way too, at least from what I've seen. Of all the crew of the Annie, Jeret is the one who seems to have the most secrets. He's secretive himself, but enigmatic and funny at times, always with a smart quip in response to the others and always wanting to prove himself since he's the youngest and in many ways considered the baby on board by Torrin. Whether it was intended by the author for Jeret to become such a favorite, I'm not sure. But it does mean that a lot of people who read this series were eagerly awaiting his story, which gives this third book in the series a lot of pressure to stand up to.
Of all the secrets that Jeret could have had… I never expected that he's a runaway prince! That in itself was a surprise, that I wish that I had found out in the book and not the blurb. But, it's a good hook to bring people to the story, even if they haven't been reading the series up till now. The runaway prince is a solid character that always seems to draw in readers. Torrin, Rain and Jeret are the only ones left on the Annie after Cookie left in Sky Runners to live with his new love Neith, who the crew rescued from an intergalactic brothel where Neith had been sold and kept against his will as a whore. Now, with the crew reduced to three and two of those -- Torrin and Rain -- in a relationship themselves, Jeret feels a bit like the third wheel. Add in the fact that he was always seen as the baby of the crew anyway, and it had Jeret thinking about his past.
When Torrin announces that they're headed to a planet near the one that Jeret escaped from, he does everything he can to convince Torrin and Rain that heading for a job there is a bad idea, especially when he learns that Torrin has agreed to ferry a shipment that must have come from his home planet. Jeret knows that something is wrong if those on his planet are smuggling off the expensive ore, underneath the nose of the COP, but his caution is ignored by the others.
When they land on the nearby planet, Jeret has no idea that Dagan -- once the man who was his guard, his best friend, and the man who held his unrequited love as a 15 year old crown prince -- has resumed the search for the heir to the empire under the name of his king. When Jadakira (Jeret's real name) escaped as he always wanted to do at 15, Dagan lost everything. His failure to protect the prince led to the loss of his whole world and his ultimate banishment from the planet. But Dagan knows Jadi well and it only takes him six months to track his whereabouts and learn about his tenure as part of the Crux Ansata's crew.
But Jeret, no matter his remaining feelings for the man he once loved as a kid, will not allow anyone to return him to his home planet. He has never had a desire to be king and what he loves most is the mechanics of the Annie, his crew and their adventures in space. His birthright is a cage he escaped years ago. But when he learns that his father, the King, is dying and a traitor planetside is angling to steal the throne, Jeret knows that he has to find the culprit. But he'll fight Dagan and his "duty" to the King the whole way, and hopefully in the end be able to return to the life he wants to lead.
There are parts of this book that I really enjoyed. There is quite a bit of history between Jeret and Dagan and I thought that their relationship played out beautifully. Both are stubborn and refuse to budge from their ultimate goal: Jeret to return his home planet to the way it should be and then return to the crew of the Annie; and Dagan wants to help Jadi, still not quite understanding his true desires. The fact that Dagan failed in his duty all those years ago is a mark against his pride and he will do everything to return Jadi to his father before his death. The reconciliation of their desires takes most of the book and we really get to see their stubbornness play out against each other over and over, though not too far as to be frustrating. The push and pull between them gave the story the most enjoyment for me, because as the story evolves and they learn to work together for a common goal their true feelings come to matter more than their pride.
On the other hand, I was pretty disappointed in the external plot. The plot to overthrow the king and Jeret and Dagan's plan to ferret out the traitor. For most of the book the tension mounted and they moved closer and closer but the ending really fizzled for me. First, the traitor was not who I expected, but that was because I never felt as if they were introduced into the plot to even become a suspect. I'm not a big fan of when authors do that. The culprit should have been introduced much earlier. And second because the final confrontation, while a bit satisfying for the characters, seemed a bit… anticlimactic.
So the real interest for me in this story was Jeret, and his love interest Dagan. I enjoyed their back and forth courtship, and I will admit that the tension created by the external plot was more of a device to play into their feelings for one another than the other way around. I think that if you read this story alone, without reading the first two then you might not have the prior interest in the characters to make this a very satisfactory read. I read this because I'd read the first two, and I had an interest in learning more about Jeret. And while I did find what I wanted, this book as a complete story was a little bit disappointing.
So, I recommend this for those of you who, like me, have read both Sky Riders and Sky Runners. For all the books, I found the romances in them the best part of the books. Looking back at this as a series, I would have probably enjoyed more of a central story arc over the whole series that drew them together. But, they are the way they are ;) And I did find enjoyment from them.
July 3, 2013
Final crew member of the Annie, most enigmatic past, and final book of the series....very excited to get to Jeret's story and I was not disappointed. I knew he had a colorful past and yes, as a runaway prince who is being hunted down by his childhood crush to take up his destiny, his story delivered on my expectations.
Jeret along with Torin and Rain find themselves again into trouble due to their mercenary cargo and the job takes them close to Jeret's home world that he hoped to never see again. But then things get even more interesting when a face from his past captures (literally) his attention to tell him that his father is ill and he must return home.
Dagan lost his position and his honorable reputation when Jeret ran away on his watch as Jeret's body guard. Now the dying king has sent him to find and return the wayward prince. Dagan's bounty job becomes complicated when Jeret insists that he is not returning, but then agrees to return to discover who is exploiting the planet's resources and staging a coup with Jeret in danger of being eliminated as a barrier to the throne.
Jeret once loved Dagan and Dagan didn't know he existed. He finds that when all's said and done that he still has an attraction for Dagan, but now Dagan is awake to the older more confident, Jeret. As Annie's crew and Dagan work together, Dagan and Jeret snip and snipe their way together through the mission both still intent on going their separate ways in the end.
The plot on this one offered the usual adventure for the guys- a simple transport job that goes south and leads them to discover the secrets that the young Jeret has been hiding since Torin found him. All through the series, I suspected that Jeret would have an interesting backstory and I was right. Again, it was a nice blend of swashbuckling adventure and romance. It offered a twist that got things even more interesting. I did enjoy seeing Jeret and Dagan work out their relationship learning to accept that they didn't know each other as well as they thought. It was good to get some scene time with the rest of the "Annie" gang too. This was a fun, light series and I'll miss getting more installments.
Those who enjoy light, scorching hot and adventuresome m/m sci-fi romance should give this one a try.
Thanks to Net Galley for providing a copy of the book for review purposes.
Jeret along with Torin and Rain find themselves again into trouble due to their mercenary cargo and the job takes them close to Jeret's home world that he hoped to never see again. But then things get even more interesting when a face from his past captures (literally) his attention to tell him that his father is ill and he must return home.
Dagan lost his position and his honorable reputation when Jeret ran away on his watch as Jeret's body guard. Now the dying king has sent him to find and return the wayward prince. Dagan's bounty job becomes complicated when Jeret insists that he is not returning, but then agrees to return to discover who is exploiting the planet's resources and staging a coup with Jeret in danger of being eliminated as a barrier to the throne.
Jeret once loved Dagan and Dagan didn't know he existed. He finds that when all's said and done that he still has an attraction for Dagan, but now Dagan is awake to the older more confident, Jeret. As Annie's crew and Dagan work together, Dagan and Jeret snip and snipe their way together through the mission both still intent on going their separate ways in the end.
The plot on this one offered the usual adventure for the guys- a simple transport job that goes south and leads them to discover the secrets that the young Jeret has been hiding since Torin found him. All through the series, I suspected that Jeret would have an interesting backstory and I was right. Again, it was a nice blend of swashbuckling adventure and romance. It offered a twist that got things even more interesting. I did enjoy seeing Jeret and Dagan work out their relationship learning to accept that they didn't know each other as well as they thought. It was good to get some scene time with the rest of the "Annie" gang too. This was a fun, light series and I'll miss getting more installments.
Those who enjoy light, scorching hot and adventuresome m/m sci-fi romance should give this one a try.
Thanks to Net Galley for providing a copy of the book for review purposes.
August 8, 2013
3-3.5 stars - An overall fun sci-fi romance adventure. This is the third and last book in Sutherland’s Skybound series, this volume focusing on young mechanic and hacker Jeret who finds to his frustration that his hot, hulking past has finally caught up to him.
It’s a fun, light sci-fi adventure series, kind of a Firefly-vibe since the main crew of the ship are basically space mercenaries (but not mean ones.) Jeret was an acerbic background character in the last book, but here you find out why he was picked up randomly at 15, and that his orphan runaway appearances is just a façade for a royal pedigree.
Dagan, his former bodyguard/minder is a fun character and they have a nice angry chemistry since both thinks the other is always wrong, except for when the sexy times eventually (inevitably) heat up between them.
I really liked the characters in the 2nd book Sky Runners, but the pacing was a little off in that book for me—it slowed down too much. This one didn’t have the same pacing issues (probably because there was less sex), although when the climax was coming around 88-90%, I know a lot of stuff would be written off too easy, and it was, since the plot was just too big for the 50,000+ words for this novel.
A fun read, but just an okay read for me. BUT I do want to give props to Sutherland for writing a m/m space adventure romance trilogy. I love that mix of genres, so I do really appreciate that she took the dive into space--the final smexy frontier. If she decided to do more sci-fi or that ilk, I would check it out.
It’s a fun, light sci-fi adventure series, kind of a Firefly-vibe since the main crew of the ship are basically space mercenaries (but not mean ones.) Jeret was an acerbic background character in the last book, but here you find out why he was picked up randomly at 15, and that his orphan runaway appearances is just a façade for a royal pedigree.
Dagan, his former bodyguard/minder is a fun character and they have a nice angry chemistry since both thinks the other is always wrong, except for when the sexy times eventually (inevitably) heat up between them.
I really liked the characters in the 2nd book Sky Runners, but the pacing was a little off in that book for me—it slowed down too much. This one didn’t have the same pacing issues (probably because there was less sex), although when the climax was coming around 88-90%, I know a lot of stuff would be written off too easy, and it was, since the plot was just too big for the 50,000+ words for this novel.
A fun read, but just an okay read for me. BUT I do want to give props to Sutherland for writing a m/m space adventure romance trilogy. I love that mix of genres, so I do really appreciate that she took the dive into space--the final smexy frontier. If she decided to do more sci-fi or that ilk, I would check it out.
July 22, 2013
Woo hoo! Sutherland has really found her niche with this sci-fi M/M series! SKY HUNTER turned out to be more than I expected. This is Jeret’s book and readers will learn more about his past, and more specifically where he came from. As a crowned prince, he ran away from his family and joined the Crux Ansata crew.
His father hires a bounty hunter to retrieve him. We learn that he is dying and that he wishes to see his son once more before he dies. Dagan, the bounty hunter and Jeret know each other from their childhood and encountering one another again only brings those memories back into their minds.
In a series of twists and turns, Sutherland takes this fun trope and makes it her own. There are a ton of surprises that make this book a thrill to read. Action and suspense lace every page of this book. But again, there is that sparkling humor that I really like about this series that is present as well.
The only thing that confused me in the beginning was the switching back and forth between names. Jeret and Dagan’s name for him, Jadi was just too much at one point. I would have preferred the author just stick with one to keep it simple. There are so many characters already in this series that adding names that sound so similar to one another makes it hard to get them all straight.
*ARC provided by Netgalley
February 19, 2017
Overall another good story in the series. There was a little too much whining for me, because one of the characters is young, but still... Also, the age gap was played up quite a bit only for us to find out near the end that it was only 5 years.
August 3, 2013
Looking forward to More in this series! !
July 23, 2019
Still not a bad book; still didn't work for me!
Actually, parts of this instalment of the series actively made me feel bad. Jeret struck out on his own, ran away from the life he didn't want, chose a new name and a new life for himself, and for the VAST MAJORITY of the book, Dagan just does not respect that. The implications that Jeret was being a spoilt child was annoying. His refusal to call Jeret by his preferred name was revolting. And the fact that Jeret backslid into the name, if not the life, was so ?__? to me. Throughout so much of this book, Jeret just did not seem like the character we'd gotten to know over the other two books.
The plot was, uh, sure. There's so much that CAN be done with this setting, but wasn't. As always, there were some bits that just didn't make sense. (Dagan became captain of the royal guard at what age now? 19? Sure, Jan.) The characters... meh? I actually liked the cameos from the other couples; Torin and Rain were really cute.
This wasn't the worst series I've ever read, but I feel apathetic about a lot of it, and distinctly peeved about how the main character in this one felt like he regressed instead of progressed.
2.5 stars.
Actually, parts of this instalment of the series actively made me feel bad. Jeret struck out on his own, ran away from the life he didn't want, chose a new name and a new life for himself, and for the VAST MAJORITY of the book, Dagan just does not respect that. The implications that Jeret was being a spoilt child was annoying. His refusal to call Jeret by his preferred name was revolting. And the fact that Jeret backslid into the name, if not the life, was so ?__? to me. Throughout so much of this book, Jeret just did not seem like the character we'd gotten to know over the other two books.
The plot was, uh, sure. There's so much that CAN be done with this setting, but wasn't. As always, there were some bits that just didn't make sense. (Dagan became captain of the royal guard at what age now? 19? Sure, Jan.) The characters... meh? I actually liked the cameos from the other couples; Torin and Rain were really cute.
This wasn't the worst series I've ever read, but I feel apathetic about a lot of it, and distinctly peeved about how the main character in this one felt like he regressed instead of progressed.
2.5 stars.
October 16, 2022
Not quite as good as the first 2 but still an enjoyable story. I have listened to the audio books a few times and that is my personal test to a good story. I love a good scifi that doesnt expect me to be a scientist to get it :) I found the characters and the universe they live in engaging. The narrator was a good choice for the story. Worth listening to the series.
March 20, 2019
Good. There’s a bit of an age gap but it wasn’t really noticeable. There’s good action and some intrigue.
March 3, 2022
Books two and three weren’t as compelling but still some fun space adventures to be had. Thought this was the weaker of the books between 2 and 3. Shame really.
May 25, 2015
I honestly don't know why this one didn't work for me as well as the other two in this series. Maybe because there was just too much going on. Maybe because the MCs spent too much time arguing about whose fault everything was in the past and not enough time connecting to each other in the here and now.
The writing was still solid, and the world-building (universe-building?) is still interesting and well done, but I just couldn't connect to the characters as well this time around.
The writing was still solid, and the world-building (universe-building?) is still interesting and well done, but I just couldn't connect to the characters as well this time around.
September 5, 2013
Looking forward to reading jeret's story!
September 22, 2013
Narrator 5; but story is a 3.
September 22, 2013
enjoyable series!
March 30, 2014
I enjoyed this the most among the books in this series, although I thought Cooky's story would be the best, I loved him! This was sweet and sensual, and fun to read. I wish there was more.
August 12, 2018
Sky Hunters is number three in the series and alas it didn’t work for me like the number two. It was messy and as jerky as Sky Riders, number one in the series. I’m totally unsatisfied.
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