Spaceships, sinister enemies and sizzling hot chemistry!
United Earth Forces soldier Kate Brown was looking forward to a cold beer back at base in the Utah desert after her two year posting in Kanaven, a remote earth colony. Instead, she discovers earth is a very different place to the planet she left.
Dragon shifter Redon, commander of the Uhalor III, was never meant to go near earth; not yet. But when a mysterious enemy attacks, he's left with little choice but to order his navigators to make an emergency landing on the planet that holds the key to the Dreon people's futures.
But that's the least of Redon's worries. His body is going haywire. It can only be one thing, but it doesn't make sense--why would he experience the mating call so far from his home planet?
Loved this book. A bit different storyline to the normal alien meets girl. Redon and his crew are in earths orbit where they really are not supposed to be because of the prophecy, but they had to evade a Collective Destroyer. They end up being shot at and forced to crash land on earth. Kate and her fellow crew members are soldiers for earths forces and are returning home after two years in space, but have also been shot at and had a forced landing. The commander of the base deliberately let them be shot out of the sky and Kate and her two friends the only survivors want to know why. Redon is a from the planet Dregon and they are dragon shifters. Upon crash landing on earth he is experiencing a mating call which is not possible. Or is it? Kate is going through some problems of her own. This is the first book and it does leave you without a proper ending, but the story is so good, I am hoping the next book will be out shortly. Thank you to Maya Kane for the amazing review copy. Highly Recommend this book.
Rating 2.5 This appears to be the first of a serial so be prepared for a LOT to be unfinished. I see hints of two other couples that may get their own story. This was very basic writing/plotting, nothing more than okay. There were some cool factors like the shapeshifting and prophesy hints (but just hints) but also some irritating ones. Redon and Kate, it turns out, didn't pay attention to their classes in Uniton, the universal language, so they can only talk to each other like cavemen. Aron and Athena, my best bet for the series' next couple, speak it just fine and do a lot of translating to move the story forward, but there aren't any heartfelt conversations between the hero and heroine. So the story concept is good, the bones are there, but the writing lacks polish and, while the primary couple has their happy-for-now ending there is just way too much still hanging for this to be a standalone.
I write very few reviews never sure what to say . But I enjoyed this book so much that it demanded I attempted a review. The story has one major couple involved, and you get a hea. But two other possible couples are left open for another installment??? I hope so I Don't care about grammar or punctuation so if they bother you sorry I didn't check. But this is well worth your time to read
Maya Kane has written an interesting story. I've always enjoyed a good shifter story and also alien ones, too. She an awesome job combining the two. I just wish she would have continued the story line. I felt that there was more to tell, between the two main characters.
Maya has a well developed sense of the myths and histories of her new alien race. There is a prophecy that we don't know all of so there must be more to come. Very good read. but short and sweet.