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Hellcat's Bounty
Lesbian romance meets adventure in the first Rosewood Space Western.
The hellcat of Rosewood station is the best of the best. Anelace Rios is a good old-fashioned troublemaker, fiercely independent, and best of all, a steady hand with a flamethrower. Carnivorous amoeba are slowly taking over the half-abandoned mining port, and the freelance exterminator rakes in big bounties killing them off—then she spends those bounties in a grand way. Work hard, play hard.
Meidani Sintlere's reputation is exactly the opposite of her wild friend. She's the station’s hardworking black market doctor. She’s shy. She's nice. She's got a weakness for imported chocolate and pastel dresses. And she gets mad as a sani-vacced cat when Anelace shows up missing chunks of skin.
The hellcat never lacks for a willing partner. Even so, Meidani's got notions to cut to the front of the line and stay there. She upends everything Anelace knows about good girls and the bad girls who don’t deserve them, and in a blisteringly hot night they go from friends to lovers.
But their new closeness forces the kind of reckoning even tough Anelace can't escape unscathed. She thrives on her job, relishes the payoff, but now she's endangering more than her own adrenaline-junkie hide—every run risks Meidani’s happiness. For the first time, Anelace is risking her shot at love.
The hellcat of Rosewood station is the best of the best. Anelace Rios is a good old-fashioned troublemaker, fiercely independent, and best of all, a steady hand with a flamethrower. Carnivorous amoeba are slowly taking over the half-abandoned mining port, and the freelance exterminator rakes in big bounties killing them off—then she spends those bounties in a grand way. Work hard, play hard.
Meidani Sintlere's reputation is exactly the opposite of her wild friend. She's the station’s hardworking black market doctor. She’s shy. She's nice. She's got a weakness for imported chocolate and pastel dresses. And she gets mad as a sani-vacced cat when Anelace shows up missing chunks of skin.
The hellcat never lacks for a willing partner. Even so, Meidani's got notions to cut to the front of the line and stay there. She upends everything Anelace knows about good girls and the bad girls who don’t deserve them, and in a blisteringly hot night they go from friends to lovers.
But their new closeness forces the kind of reckoning even tough Anelace can't escape unscathed. She thrives on her job, relishes the payoff, but now she's endangering more than her own adrenaline-junkie hide—every run risks Meidani’s happiness. For the first time, Anelace is risking her shot at love.
118 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 5, 2014
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Renae Jones
3 books11 followersThere's not much you need to know about me, but let me give you the highlights: I crush hard on complex, driven heroines in fascinating fantasy settings. I like my movies with explosions, my books with magic, my rum dark and my men obedient. I have a dog named Brenna after a favorite book heroine and a cat named Spike Ann because she's crazy. I live in Ohio after illuminating stints in Arizona, Oregon, California, and Texas. I'm a pedantic marketing technologist by day, and an author by evening. I'm not a people person.
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October 11, 2014
I 100% enjoyed this book. It's everything I ever wanted from a lesbian space western. The characters were perfect, well rounded, and believable. I loved that Anelace was equal parts tough and reckless, strong and streets art, if not book smart, and with no idea how to keep good girl Meidani.
Meidani was equally fantastic. It was from Anelace's POV, but a Meidani was equally as fleshed out (if not more so). A feisty good girl who knew exactly what she wanted, from brazenly to not holding her tongue when she's upset (and for good reason).
They also LAUGHED together, like any good couple. I had no problem believing their chemistry or interactions, their fights or conversations. HIGHLY recommend.
Meidani was equally fantastic. It was from Anelace's POV, but a Meidani was equally as fleshed out (if not more so). A feisty good girl who knew exactly what she wanted, from brazenly to not holding her tongue when she's upset (and for good reason).
They also LAUGHED together, like any good couple. I had no problem believing their chemistry or interactions, their fights or conversations. HIGHLY recommend.
December 1, 2014
FourStars
I absolutely love this world. Love it, love it, love it. When I saw the genre, I knew this was a must have for me, because let’s be honest, how often do you see sci-fi and western wrapped up in one. This reminded me of Firefly right off the bat, only so much better. These characters had a purpose; they had a reason for being who they were without running into trouble every two seconds.
Anelace (beautiful name, by the way) runs around killing these things called blobs. I mean, really? Doesn’t sound interesting? Totally wrong. The extermination aspect to this story is what made it the most interesting. I wanted to delve even deeper into the world Anelace lived and exactly what made hunting these things so much fun and just so dangerous.
This book is great for making political statements, although I wish it had delved even more deeply into them. And this is where my problem with the book comes around. It’s a sweet romance, for the most part, but the romance moves quickly and really doesn’t have all that many problems in it. It seems as if the problem was created out of nowhere. It’s not as though Meidani went into the relationship without knowing how dangerous Anelace’s job was.
I think this book failed on the plot level. There just wasn’t much there. I kept looking for it, and it wasn’t there at all. I missed it. There were so many places it could have gone: immigration, LGBT relationships in a confined and small community, politics of the space ship, scientific in how the blobs were created and how they run amok and how they procreate, and a full romance focusing on the emotions of what these two fantastic characters are going through. There’s mention of all of these things but it’s never dug down deep into. I wish at least one of them had been explored intensely. It would have made this not a spectacular five. Right now, the star rating stands solely for the creation of the world (which is still awesome) and the characters.
I’m definitely looking forward to the next book in this world, simply because it’s a damn creative world in and of itself and I want to see more aspects of it.
I was given this in return for an honest review by Inked Rainbow Reads.
~AJ
FourStars
I enjoyed reading "Hellcat’s Bounty". The book features a strong female character who exterminates blobs and she is the best of the best. You can feel Anelace’s excitement when she goes to hunt the blobs and gets a bit more than she expected.
In the book there is romance, suspense and sex. That makes for a good story, however there are some things I had wished the author had focused on. Those would be the back story on the spaceship and how the blobs came to be. This is a sci-fi western book, but many things weren’t explained.
I will be looking forward to reading more about these characters and their world.
I was given this in return for an honest review by Inked Rainbow Reads.
Angela
I absolutely love this world. Love it, love it, love it. When I saw the genre, I knew this was a must have for me, because let’s be honest, how often do you see sci-fi and western wrapped up in one. This reminded me of Firefly right off the bat, only so much better. These characters had a purpose; they had a reason for being who they were without running into trouble every two seconds.
Anelace (beautiful name, by the way) runs around killing these things called blobs. I mean, really? Doesn’t sound interesting? Totally wrong. The extermination aspect to this story is what made it the most interesting. I wanted to delve even deeper into the world Anelace lived and exactly what made hunting these things so much fun and just so dangerous.
This book is great for making political statements, although I wish it had delved even more deeply into them. And this is where my problem with the book comes around. It’s a sweet romance, for the most part, but the romance moves quickly and really doesn’t have all that many problems in it. It seems as if the problem was created out of nowhere. It’s not as though Meidani went into the relationship without knowing how dangerous Anelace’s job was.
I think this book failed on the plot level. There just wasn’t much there. I kept looking for it, and it wasn’t there at all. I missed it. There were so many places it could have gone: immigration, LGBT relationships in a confined and small community, politics of the space ship, scientific in how the blobs were created and how they run amok and how they procreate, and a full romance focusing on the emotions of what these two fantastic characters are going through. There’s mention of all of these things but it’s never dug down deep into. I wish at least one of them had been explored intensely. It would have made this not a spectacular five. Right now, the star rating stands solely for the creation of the world (which is still awesome) and the characters.
I’m definitely looking forward to the next book in this world, simply because it’s a damn creative world in and of itself and I want to see more aspects of it.
I was given this in return for an honest review by Inked Rainbow Reads.
~AJ
FourStars
I enjoyed reading "Hellcat’s Bounty". The book features a strong female character who exterminates blobs and she is the best of the best. You can feel Anelace’s excitement when she goes to hunt the blobs and gets a bit more than she expected.
In the book there is romance, suspense and sex. That makes for a good story, however there are some things I had wished the author had focused on. Those would be the back story on the spaceship and how the blobs came to be. This is a sci-fi western book, but many things weren’t explained.
I will be looking forward to reading more about these characters and their world.
I was given this in return for an honest review by Inked Rainbow Reads.
Angela
February 11, 2015
Lesbian space western: gotta admit, that's something you don't read every day. Bounty hunter Anelace, who hunts carnivorous blobs on the decrepit space station where she lives, has always been attracted to her under-the-table doctor, Meidani. But good-girl Meidani has always given Anelace the brush-off. Until one day, she doesn't (not sure why). Fast forward a month (as the story does), and the two are a couple. But Meidani can't take Anelace's zest for danger, and breaks up with her. Only after does she come to understand how her actions have brought pain to Meidani, and Anelace , rather a downer of a message for a romance novel.
There's a lot of potential here, with this unusual secondary world and non-hetero romantic couple. Yet I'm guessing neither SF nor romance fans will feel fully satisfied by this underdeveloped novel masquerading as a novella. There's not enough world-building to satisfy the SF fans, while romance readers might get frustrated by the action-adventure scenes, because they only feature Anelace, rather than Anelace and Meidani together. Wish Jones had taken this world and fleshed it out to novel-length, to give these intriguing characters more depth and their romance more time to change and develop.
There's a lot of potential here, with this unusual secondary world and non-hetero romantic couple. Yet I'm guessing neither SF nor romance fans will feel fully satisfied by this underdeveloped novel masquerading as a novella. There's not enough world-building to satisfy the SF fans, while romance readers might get frustrated by the action-adventure scenes, because they only feature Anelace, rather than Anelace and Meidani together. Wish Jones had taken this world and fleshed it out to novel-length, to give these intriguing characters more depth and their romance more time to change and develop.
November 23, 2014
An entertaining, quick read. I'm a fan of the sci-fi series Firefly and this kind of reminded of me that because it had that cowboys in space feeling. The author creates a neat setting in a run down space station on an asteroid that has this little problem with a man eating blob infestation. Anelace plays the bad girl who falls for the seemingly unobtainable Meidani. There is action, emotion and sex. I look forward to the next book from this author and seeing how she expands the Rosewood universe.
June 11, 2018
Hand to god I just finished this book two minutes ago and I don't know if I could recount the plot. Most of the tension was me trying to figure out the passage of time.
I did like Anelace in the end, and Meidani had her moments, but I think on the whole I'm just sad I didn't like the book.
I did like Anelace in the end, and Meidani had her moments, but I think on the whole I'm just sad I didn't like the book.
March 29, 2020
For Firefly Fans
I loved this so much. A badass lesbian bounty hunter exterminating dangerous predators on a crumbling frontier space station, danger, love...it's perfect.
I loved this so much. A badass lesbian bounty hunter exterminating dangerous predators on a crumbling frontier space station, danger, love...it's perfect.
October 20, 2022
Fine but kinda forgettable space western romance that didn’t really justify its happy ending
November 3, 2022
Not a romance fan but this one grabbed me and I raced thru it. Loved the characters, the scenario and the story arc. Really looking forward to the next book in this series.
January 24, 2023
3.5 stars.
February 27, 2017
Good book
I think this is a really great world and I like the characters! I think it is a great start to a series or a good standalone book.
I think this is a really great world and I like the characters! I think it is a great start to a series or a good standalone book.
May 27, 2016
A western-flavored sci-fi f/f romance. This is probably something you'll either love or hate. If it sounds like you're kind of thing, you must read this book. It succeeds at being everything it tries to be.
As sci-fi goes, you won't find a lot of high-concept stuff here. The speculative elements mostly serve to deliver atmosphere and some enjoyable action scenes. That said, the "world-building" was unique and fairly inspired.
The highlight of Hellcat's Bounty is, as it should be, the romance. The chemistry between the heroines really pops. They're downright adorable together. What's more, their trials and tribulations felt authentic given the book's alien setting. I hope to read more books set in this universe again someday.
As sci-fi goes, you won't find a lot of high-concept stuff here. The speculative elements mostly serve to deliver atmosphere and some enjoyable action scenes. That said, the "world-building" was unique and fairly inspired.
The highlight of Hellcat's Bounty is, as it should be, the romance. The chemistry between the heroines really pops. They're downright adorable together. What's more, their trials and tribulations felt authentic given the book's alien setting. I hope to read more books set in this universe again someday.
November 10, 2014
Excellent! Great story and sexy to boot!
I absolutely fell in love with the characters and can hardly wait to see how their lives continue. It's great lesbian storytelling in a genre that is fun and exciting..
I absolutely fell in love with the characters and can hardly wait to see how their lives continue. It's great lesbian storytelling in a genre that is fun and exciting..
December 22, 2016
Started off well, but the ending let it down. A few more details would have been nice.
October 16, 2014
The lesbians of Rosewood station are now on my must read list.
January 11, 2016
Really impressed. Great world building, interesting characters and enough danger and tension to keep you rapidly turning the page.
Wish there was a sequel.
Wish there was a sequel.
December 7, 2014
Loved!
Will write a review later. Great writing, original story, funny heroine, blob creatures in space!, super cute romance. So well done and just a pleasure to read.
Will write a review later. Great writing, original story, funny heroine, blob creatures in space!, super cute romance. So well done and just a pleasure to read.
January 21, 2015
Short moderately sweet with characters I liked. The conflict was good and I'll probably re read it and will likely buy others in the series.
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