[Siren Classic Erotic Alternative Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, HEA] Cage fighter by necessity, Squeak dodges the henchmen sent by his boss. He hides out at The Crossroad Bar and manages to have hot dirty sex with a stranger. Unfortunately, something inside of Squeak is unleashed when bitten on the shoulder. Terrified with the excruciating pain, Squeak flees into the night oblivious to the mating bite. Commander Tynan Rhys is tired and wants to return to the Lycan Home world. The Crossroad Bar is the last stop on his mission, and he fears it's another wild goose chase. A neon green cap catches his eye, and he soon finds himself with a little imp that makes his blood burn with lust. Due for a quick hookup, Tynan seduces the gorgeous man, but when his canines drop with the uncontrollable urge to bite, all thoughts of his mission are lost. Tynan realises too late that he claimed one of the missing Lycan princes, and now faces a death sentence. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
Jorja parks her squeaky office chair in rural Ontario and is grateful to live the life she has now. Her days are usually filled with writing about hot, naughty scenes and tender moments between her quirky and sexy characters.
She believes anyone can fall in love and deserve their happily ever after. And when her world gets crazy, and it usually does, a strong cup of coffee can fix anything, add chocolate and she's ready to take on the world.
Yet, Jorja still finds the time to cuddle with her spoiled and lazy cats and manages to keep her boisterous family in line, well she tries.
Jorja loves to laugh and share her quirky personality with anyone who is brave enough to be her friend, because you never know what she'll do. One more thing, Jorja doesn't believe in goodbye, so instead she simply says take care and cheers.
I should have loved this story. I mean, c'mon! Cage fighting long lost shifter prince fluff with knotting plus bonus mpreg in space? I should have gobbled this up like a steak and lobster buffet. But nooooo! Instead I was in agony. Why?
Too many fucking words!
It was so painful! It was like a thesaurus threw up on the pages. Here, let me share a few examples with you:
Tynan was in awe from the undisputable need to protect and cherish his man with every fibre of his strength and heart. It scared him, but it didn't stop him from claiming his mate before his clever mouth trailed down the sensitive neck and shoulder that had Squeak panting against his shorn blond hair.
and
Squeak felt the ribbons of their souls caress and tangle.
That's how it is throughout the entire book. Everything is a descriptive AND another descriptive.
It may have been bearable if the author used proper grammar with the excessive amount of words.
The sexy growl was all Squeak heard before his soon-to-be giant lover strode across the tiled restroom toward the farthest stall.
So he's soon to be a giant? Or a giant lover?
Squeak arched his back and grinded his now hard and demanding cock against the washboard muscles of Tynan's belly.
Grinded???? That's not even a real word!
You know the saying 'couldn't see the forest for the trees'?
Writhe and wither are two very different words. At least three times in this book someone was withering (or some other form of the word) while in the midst of sex. Now, if this had been a horror story with some sort of vampire, bloodsucking, psychic, whatever, maybe I could see the withering. It was not. So yeah, there should have been NO withering. *sigh*
Moving on...this was bleeding purple prose all over the place. In fact, I wanted to go read an eighties bodice-ripper to clear my head.
Next gripe, these guys are supposed to be some kind of elite force searching for the lost princes...but they make some seriously stupid, newbie moves, all for the sake of setting up the next plot point.
The idea was pretty cool but the execution just didn't do much for me.
This started out good, but then for me it went down hill. Had to start skimming the sex scenes.
The sex scenes were getting a bit much. And the first one was right after one of the mc is beaten really bad "the exposed bones that were snapped on his upper arms" & "when he tried to move his arms and found an elastic-gauze wrapped around them from shoulder to wrist." and "his face was so swollen he could see out of one eye" he also had to be sedated twice. But then when he wakes up next they have heavy sex. No thoughts of ALL the injuries he has.
And also this is a Man on Man story not m/f! some of the sex scenes are written more for m/f .. the wording.
I don't care for that in my M/M stories.. That bother me more, if you are going to write about two MEN having sex, write it as men's body. I know this is a first time author, and I don't mean to sound to harsh, hopefully the series will get better.
I don't always read reviews before starting a book. Hell, sometimes I don't even read the blurb. But I singled this out, then read some reviews, then felt bummed at the lack of positive ones, then thought "f*ck it, I'm reading it anyway." Kinda glad I did, after getting pissy at the book I read immediately before, this one cheered me up. Yeah there were some parts that I thought "Seriously?" but screw it, it had shifters, and knotting, and m-preg, and sci-fi and all the things that I need once a month when I feel like crap. I liked it. So there.
This book has lots of potential however is nowhere as good as it could be. There quite a few holes in the story that I believe a more experienced writer would not have missed.
Examples: 1. If the main character, Squeak has been doing cage fighting for years, why is he so helpless? 2. You just got beaten to within an inch of your life, would you be having sex while your face is smashed and your body broken? 3. If you have been kidnapped as a baby and later found as an adult, don't you ask about your birth parents? Who they are, if they are still alive, etc... 4. When listening to your kidnapping story you find out that you have siblings that have been kidnapped at the same time as you, wouldn't you want to know more and show some worry for those same siblings? Would you not want to be involved in finding them? 5. Squeak's reunion with his birth parents was as ridiculous as it was unrealistic. It did not make sense that he did not know who they were when they entered the room. The way he addressed his birth father seemed sexual and was completely out of order, as for Squeak only recognizing his father only after he looked him in eyes was just bizarre (one would expect him to have seen a pic of his parents before meeting them). 6. If your children were kidnapped straight after birth and of them is found (after you spent 25 years searching) and you are going to see that child for first time, one would expect that your first reaction upon entering the room would be to hug and kiss your child and not head for the buze cabinet first. 7. Also as a parent, you found one of your children but 3 are still missing, do you speak with the child you found as if he was the only one you missed, do you not even mention the other children?
These holes made reading this book a chore, I can only hope that the next books in the series are better written and that the author will think and use logic when writing them.
I am going to be a bit less crushing since this is apparently a maiden effort, but really, I haven't read a book that has so many crying men in a while now.
The book DOES have ingredients for the kind of nice, overdramatic, angst-ridden books that I like, but the author lost it all in a storyline that went from deathbed scenes to 30-page-sexathons in a space of no seconds.
One second one of the MCs is brutalized with gory descriptions of just how injured he is, the next they're having a sex party. If my arms are broken to the point where my bones are showing, can I just point out that sex would be nowhere on my mind? The story then tells you there is urgency - threats of execution and some important cargo to deliver and plotty shit - but apparently even the end of the world can be put on pause if there's great sex waiting to happen.
While the storyline is good and I'm interested in reading about the remaing broths the writing style was a bit too jumpy for me. As others have commented, the jump from deathbed to sex is to abrupt. As this is the first book from an author though I'll wait for a few more books before I decide weather I stop reading her books or not.
Muito ruim, Deus me livre. Tudo é ruim, nada salva. Diz no livro que o menino foi treinado pra lutar desde os 11 anos e ele não luta de volta em NENHUMA das vezes que ele é atacado, só recebe todas as pancadas e espera ser salvo ou morrer. Os personagens são sem graça, a história não existe, só é uma cena de sexo atrás da outra sem propósito nenhum deixando o livro arrastado e chato. Eu tenho nem forças pra continuar falando mal desse livro.
Really like the concept of this story, and it has mpreg yay!!!! I believe this is a new author with a lot of potential. The book does have a lot of sex scenes but, no more than the other more popular writers that writes similiar material. I did skim those scenes because the plot was interesting. Looking forward to reading more of this series and other works.
What did I like? I love that he kept his name, Squeak. I love his reaction to finding out his heritage, and even better his reaction to his legacy. Thanks, Kellen! The relationship between the main couple is just adorable.
Recommendation: I loved this book. I am looking forward to more in the series.
3.75**** Well... I agree with a lot of the other reviews. Could be a really great series.... But the many many sex scenes in this short book took away from the story for me. I am still looking forward to the next one. Hopefully there will be more STORY than '' ravishing ''.
I really liked the story line there were a lot of sex scenes but I didn't mind the author made each character interesting I wanted to know more on each I really want to know what happens next especially with the other brothers !
The plot for this story sounded good but the actual story itself was so very lacking. There was no actual telling of the story. This was just page after page of sex. There was very little substance.