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Space Grit #4
Willing Skin
Sylla Viola has never put down roots. When she's forced to abandon her life, she leaves everything behind. Nothing to miss. Nothing to regret. Not even the loss of her body. Using a DNA mod that changes her into a male half-human Scoriah, she's poised to get away from the hunter on her trail. Until she runs into the one man who can see through her disguise.
Docked at Station Viesel, Echtei Bronson helps a lost male Scoriah. One minute in his company threatens Echtei's control. One glimpse of the woman inside and he can't keep his hands off. One heated touch and he gives in to the need to wreak havoc on anyone who touches Sylla--a woman who could never stay with a man forever tied to family and home.
But even Echtei can't defeat what's chasing Sylla--a ruthless cyborg hunter who has shown that a Scoriah is no match for him. Echtei won’t give Sylla up without a fight. It's face the impossible or die trying, even if survival means war.
Willing Skin is a full-length science fiction romance novel in the Space Grit series and can be read stand-alone.
Warning: This novel is intended for readers 18 and older. It contains explicit female/male and (female as male)/male scenes, language, violence.
Docked at Station Viesel, Echtei Bronson helps a lost male Scoriah. One minute in his company threatens Echtei's control. One glimpse of the woman inside and he can't keep his hands off. One heated touch and he gives in to the need to wreak havoc on anyone who touches Sylla--a woman who could never stay with a man forever tied to family and home.
But even Echtei can't defeat what's chasing Sylla--a ruthless cyborg hunter who has shown that a Scoriah is no match for him. Echtei won’t give Sylla up without a fight. It's face the impossible or die trying, even if survival means war.
Willing Skin is a full-length science fiction romance novel in the Space Grit series and can be read stand-alone.
Warning: This novel is intended for readers 18 and older. It contains explicit female/male and (female as male)/male scenes, language, violence.
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Published December 10, 2015
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Ella Drake
44 books106 followersAs a child Ella read books under the covers with a flashlight. There she found a special love of elves, dragons, and knights. Now that she's found her own knight in shining armor and happily ever after, she loves to write tales of fantasy, hot enough to scorch the sheets. No flashlight needed.
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March 14, 2016
I was looking for something gritty and sexy when I picked this book up. It work for me. Enough so I snagged a couple others in the series to see how the couples who were already hooked up came together.
(But that's another story for another time. Or just later this evening.)
Sylla is in a tough spot. The only way to escape the hunter after her is to change herself as radically as possible. It's bad luck she runs into the only species in space who can tell she's not what is. On the plus side, Echtei turns out to like what he sees--both her male Scoriah disguise and her very female self--and things get hot and heavy pretty quickly.
I liked Echtei and Sylla. I liked Echtei's brothers. I even liked surly Tee, who was looks like he's going to have a very rough time when his book rolls around. Basically, this book hit all my happy sexy sci-fi buttons. I'm going in for more.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
(But that's another story for another time. Or just later this evening.)
Sylla is in a tough spot. The only way to escape the hunter after her is to change herself as radically as possible. It's bad luck she runs into the only species in space who can tell she's not what is. On the plus side, Echtei turns out to like what he sees--both her male Scoriah disguise and her very female self--and things get hot and heavy pretty quickly.
I liked Echtei and Sylla. I liked Echtei's brothers. I even liked surly Tee, who was looks like he's going to have a very rough time when his book rolls around. Basically, this book hit all my happy sexy sci-fi buttons. I'm going in for more.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
December 24, 2018
Loved it
The crew of the Twelfth Night, head to a space station to sell the crops from the family homestead. They get an unexpected surprise when they dock and a juvenile appearing Scoriah falls at their feet.
Sylla is on the run. Her ex stole some government papers and implicated her. Now she has a price on her head. Using her last credits she gets a talented bio-tech to craft a disguise to mask her DNA, Scoriah. She didn't plan on the ship that was docking to be the Scoriah.
Echtei takes charge of the strange Scoriah. Soon he learns his/her secret. He finds himself drawn to both forms which infuriates him. His difficulty controlling himself puts his family in danger. He can't help protecting her.
A cyborg hunter is on the station. He proved to be a near unstoppable force, even for the Scoriah. The information that Sylla has just may save his family and everyone in the planet.
Fast paced and steamy. With some MM , but not MM, MF. Loved Echtei and Sylla. Looking forward to Tee and Mal.
The crew of the Twelfth Night, head to a space station to sell the crops from the family homestead. They get an unexpected surprise when they dock and a juvenile appearing Scoriah falls at their feet.
Sylla is on the run. Her ex stole some government papers and implicated her. Now she has a price on her head. Using her last credits she gets a talented bio-tech to craft a disguise to mask her DNA, Scoriah. She didn't plan on the ship that was docking to be the Scoriah.
Echtei takes charge of the strange Scoriah. Soon he learns his/her secret. He finds himself drawn to both forms which infuriates him. His difficulty controlling himself puts his family in danger. He can't help protecting her.
A cyborg hunter is on the station. He proved to be a near unstoppable force, even for the Scoriah. The information that Sylla has just may save his family and everyone in the planet.
Fast paced and steamy. With some MM , but not MM, MF. Loved Echtei and Sylla. Looking forward to Tee and Mal.
October 24, 2016
This book was bizarre in a good way. The heroine really was a woman trapped in a man's body, LOL. There were plenty of action scenes, kinky love scenes, interesting sci-fi elements, and suspense. I wish the book had been polished a bit better so that it read more smoothly, but that's my only real complaint. The author has definitely created a unique series here with lots of fascinating touches.
July 12, 2018
This one was interesting because of how gender was treated. It could have been super fetishistic but I think the author avoided that. Of course, since I'm cis I can't speak to any sort of nonbinary, genderfluid, bigender life experience, so it's very possible I could miss things. Read this series in order.
March 30, 2016
What I liked:
I wasn't sure if I would like this but I decided to take a leap of faith, and I'm glad I did. Take a deep breath because the tension and action never let up for a second! It didn't feel at all like 95K, in a good way because of the seat of your pants pacing. The tech elements were intriguing and appealed hugely to my SF side without being overwhelming for anyone who isn't that into SciFi - the concept of the skin suit for the heroine and all the mental and physical conflict it involved was hugely original and completely fascinating to me. Plus the author excels at writing explicit sex scenes but in a way that doesn't set me cringing at the words used. I was also fascinated by the cyborg bounty hunter.
What I didn't like:
Some of the phrasing got a bit repetitive toward the end, and the constant to-ing and fro-ing to the same places got a bit wearing. Also the amount of time the central couple spent snogging, fondling, and/or more involved pushed my believeability limit considering how much danger Sylla was supposedly in. These were very minor niggles overall though.
In conclusion:
While a bit heavy on the sex scenes for my personal taste, this is one hot, exciting, tense, and all-round fun romp on a space station, with some uber fascinating tech including the heroine's ability to gender-flip. I'm still thinking about the story and the characters weeks after reading. If you find the idea of switched gender sex offensive, this is not for you. About the closest comparison I can make is maybe an X-rated version of Farscape where the Scarrans are more human and sexy rather than scary, and with a Terminator-style assassin. Although book four of this series, it reads perfectly fine as a standalone so you can jump in mid-series without feeling lost.
I wasn't sure if I would like this but I decided to take a leap of faith, and I'm glad I did. Take a deep breath because the tension and action never let up for a second! It didn't feel at all like 95K, in a good way because of the seat of your pants pacing. The tech elements were intriguing and appealed hugely to my SF side without being overwhelming for anyone who isn't that into SciFi - the concept of the skin suit for the heroine and all the mental and physical conflict it involved was hugely original and completely fascinating to me. Plus the author excels at writing explicit sex scenes but in a way that doesn't set me cringing at the words used. I was also fascinated by the cyborg bounty hunter.
What I didn't like:
Some of the phrasing got a bit repetitive toward the end, and the constant to-ing and fro-ing to the same places got a bit wearing. Also the amount of time the central couple spent snogging, fondling, and/or more involved pushed my believeability limit considering how much danger Sylla was supposedly in. These were very minor niggles overall though.
In conclusion:
While a bit heavy on the sex scenes for my personal taste, this is one hot, exciting, tense, and all-round fun romp on a space station, with some uber fascinating tech including the heroine's ability to gender-flip. I'm still thinking about the story and the characters weeks after reading. If you find the idea of switched gender sex offensive, this is not for you. About the closest comparison I can make is maybe an X-rated version of Farscape where the Scarrans are more human and sexy rather than scary, and with a Terminator-style assassin. Although book four of this series, it reads perfectly fine as a standalone so you can jump in mid-series without feeling lost.
October 2, 2016
I love it!
Looking for a good book to read? Well, I was and am I glad I found this. A sci-fi space opera, this is a series involving a family of aliens and their mates. Lots of action, romance and lots of heated sex! A quick read, I didn't put my reader down until I finished. Has an hea for the couple in this book but the series is not done yet. I am loving it! But it helps to read the previous books in the series to get the full effect of the story.
Looking for a good book to read? Well, I was and am I glad I found this. A sci-fi space opera, this is a series involving a family of aliens and their mates. Lots of action, romance and lots of heated sex! A quick read, I didn't put my reader down until I finished. Has an hea for the couple in this book but the series is not done yet. I am loving it! But it helps to read the previous books in the series to get the full effect of the story.
January 18, 2017
While I enjoyed this book well enough (and boy was it spicy hot in some places) the plot didn't totally capture me and I really don't care enough to read the books in the series before or after this one.
December 7, 2016
Loved the concept. Wanted more exploration of the gender swapping though. Never read a book like it before so bonus points for that!
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