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Celestial Mates #4
Caged By The Alien
Ambassador Penny Allyn is about to embark on the most important mission of her career -- Representing humanity during First Contact with an alien species.
A carefully selected team of experts have been chosen to follow a series of mysterious broadcasts across space to an alien planet and introduce humanity to a new intelligent species for the first time.
But just as they reach the alien planet, a disaster no one could have anticipated throws Penny and her entire team into danger, and their mission becomes one of avoiding what seems to be an inevitable interstellar war.
Aiten Tau, the mysterious and powerful commander of the alien’s military forces, is put in charge of Penny and her team, and takes particular interest in Penny.
They struggle to understand each other in time to prevent a cosmic catastrophe, but their growing feelings for each other may only get in the way.
Giving in to her passion for the alien Commander could make Penny the vanguard of an interplanetary war …
Note: Adults Only!
A carefully selected team of experts have been chosen to follow a series of mysterious broadcasts across space to an alien planet and introduce humanity to a new intelligent species for the first time.
But just as they reach the alien planet, a disaster no one could have anticipated throws Penny and her entire team into danger, and their mission becomes one of avoiding what seems to be an inevitable interstellar war.
Aiten Tau, the mysterious and powerful commander of the alien’s military forces, is put in charge of Penny and her team, and takes particular interest in Penny.
They struggle to understand each other in time to prevent a cosmic catastrophe, but their growing feelings for each other may only get in the way.
Giving in to her passion for the alien Commander could make Penny the vanguard of an interplanetary war …
Note: Adults Only!
- GenresScience FictionAliens
175 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 27, 2016
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August 7, 2016
The world building in this romance is very good.
I tend to really like science fiction romance novels where the aliens evolved from another animal. I especially like it when the aliens are humanoid aliens because the 9th Orb by Kaitlyn O'Connor is such a great book.
The aliens here are descended from bees. Our hero is not exactly right according to their biology and that makes it possible for him to fall in love with our heroine.
There is a good deal of culture clash that makes for a good story.
My non love of the book has to do with pacing. The opening scene is really one of the last of the book and then everything is in flashback. This tends to slow down he action for me and also makes the book darker than it needs to be.
However, the writing in this book is a huge improvement over the other books I have read by this writer and I look forward to her next book.
I tend to really like science fiction romance novels where the aliens evolved from another animal. I especially like it when the aliens are humanoid aliens because the 9th Orb by Kaitlyn O'Connor is such a great book.
The aliens here are descended from bees. Our hero is not exactly right according to their biology and that makes it possible for him to fall in love with our heroine.
There is a good deal of culture clash that makes for a good story.
My non love of the book has to do with pacing. The opening scene is really one of the last of the book and then everything is in flashback. This tends to slow down he action for me and also makes the book darker than it needs to be.
However, the writing in this book is a huge improvement over the other books I have read by this writer and I look forward to her next book.
November 11, 2016
This is why I keep coming back to this author even though the typos drive me mad. The imagination conveyed through the world/culture building was intriguing. The space journey and first contact were plausible and not overdone. To have the alien race be insect based was fantastic and yet surprisingly, the romance worked and has spice.
The beginning was jarring as is was a foregleam of a very late scene. I had to reread sentences to figure out some odd phrasing and translate typos. Don't judge the hero by the cover--it falls way short (wrong skin tone, hair, hands).
Mature content, typos
The beginning was jarring as is was a foregleam of a very late scene. I had to reread sentences to figure out some odd phrasing and translate typos. Don't judge the hero by the cover--it falls way short (wrong skin tone, hair, hands).
Mature content, typos
September 23, 2016
A humanoid like alien is curious about the earth ambassador an she him as they spend time together trying to communicate with each other .
A earth expedition goes to a distance planet another completely different solar system after receiving alien transmissions of messages . They are captured as they are beginning to orbit the planet .18+
A earth expedition goes to a distance planet another completely different solar system after receiving alien transmissions of messages . They are captured as they are beginning to orbit the planet .18+
November 27, 2017
WARNING: this is a summary so that I can remember what book this is.
Penny and a group of other women are on their way to make first contact with aliens. But they are misunderstood and taken prisoner because the aliens think they are a threat.
The women are put in a prison and when they speak the aliens act as if it hurts their ears and get angry when they hear the women's voices.
The aliens are an insect type of alien. They have a queen and have workers and breeders and soldiers like a bee hive.
One of the alien's in charge of the women becomes interested in Penny and ends up taking her back to his room, where she stays in a cage.
He eventually gets her and her friends out, and sends them to a community of outcasts and defectors. Then they blast out of the alien world.
Penny and a group of other women are on their way to make first contact with aliens. But they are misunderstood and taken prisoner because the aliens think they are a threat.
The women are put in a prison and when they speak the aliens act as if it hurts their ears and get angry when they hear the women's voices.
The aliens are an insect type of alien. They have a queen and have workers and breeders and soldiers like a bee hive.
One of the alien's in charge of the women becomes interested in Penny and ends up taking her back to his room, where she stays in a cage.
He eventually gets her and her friends out, and sends them to a community of outcasts and defectors. Then they blast out of the alien world.
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May 18, 2017
Different but good
I kind of enjoyed this story. It was different but good. I liked the bug like aliens. That was different for a change.
I kind of enjoyed this story. It was different but good. I liked the bug like aliens. That was different for a change.
June 29, 2017
Not for me
I could not follow this story at all. Only finished it since I had already purchased it. Nothing good to say so I will stop here.
I could not follow this story at all. Only finished it since I had already purchased it. Nothing good to say so I will stop here.
February 27, 2018
I started reading this series and was intrigued enough by the blurb to read this one out of order. I only gave 2 stars to the first one in the series and hadn't expected much from this one, but was very pleasantly surprised.
The world building was good, but I found the world on which Aiten Tau lived to be alarmingly dark and depressing. His people were supposedly descended from bee-like creatures and were insectoid-like in their behaviors and culture. But Aiten Tau was born with a genetic deficiency considered an abomination by the hive and was basically just existing.
His planet has been newly "discovered" by Earth and two ships have been sent as first contact. Penny is among the crew of one ship. Something happens when the two ships go into cryosleep and the second ship crashes on the planet, killing the queen and many of the inhabitants.
When Penny's ship arrives, the planet has already declared war on Earth; and she and her crew are taken prisoner. Penny must convince the planet of their true intentions.
Aiten Tau's deficiency allows him to view the "invaders" with more objectivity and over time he begins to doubt his planets views of the crew. His same deficiency allows him to see Penny and her crew as individuals. He becomes attracted to Penny and they develop a romantic relationship.
I found this book a bit stressful because the Prologue takes place in the future (it's the trial Penny goes to to decide her fate for the "invasion") and things are looking quite grim for Penny. This sets a very dark tone to the whole book as you try to see catch up on what has happened, but I think it was rather appropriate given how stark and rigid their society was.
The writing-style and author's portrayal of the heroine reminded me a little bit of Kaitlyn O'Connor less some of the annoying indecisiveness her heroines always seem to have. I enjoyed this book a lot and recommend it for anyone who likes sci-fi romances.
The world building was good, but I found the world on which Aiten Tau lived to be alarmingly dark and depressing. His people were supposedly descended from bee-like creatures and were insectoid-like in their behaviors and culture. But Aiten Tau was born with a genetic deficiency considered an abomination by the hive and was basically just existing.
His planet has been newly "discovered" by Earth and two ships have been sent as first contact. Penny is among the crew of one ship. Something happens when the two ships go into cryosleep and the second ship crashes on the planet, killing the queen and many of the inhabitants.
When Penny's ship arrives, the planet has already declared war on Earth; and she and her crew are taken prisoner. Penny must convince the planet of their true intentions.
Aiten Tau's deficiency allows him to view the "invaders" with more objectivity and over time he begins to doubt his planets views of the crew. His same deficiency allows him to see Penny and her crew as individuals. He becomes attracted to Penny and they develop a romantic relationship.
I found this book a bit stressful because the Prologue takes place in the future (it's the trial Penny goes to to decide her fate for the "invasion") and things are looking quite grim for Penny. This sets a very dark tone to the whole book as you try to see catch up on what has happened, but I think it was rather appropriate given how stark and rigid their society was.
The writing-style and author's portrayal of the heroine reminded me a little bit of Kaitlyn O'Connor less some of the annoying indecisiveness her heroines always seem to have. I enjoyed this book a lot and recommend it for anyone who likes sci-fi romances.
January 23, 2017
I gave this three stars because of the creativity. Ms. Therron went against the tide of blue aliens and went with insect-like characters. It was an interesting read, certainly better than a lot here in Kindleland. I have nothing against well-hung blue aliens. It just seems the vast majority of new writers are grabbing on to the coat tails of Ruby Dixon and Anna Carven. So using insect-like characters was refreshing.
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