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Valos of Sonhadra #5
Radiant
Yahiro never thought she would end up in prison. Let alone on a prison ship where escape was impossible. But none of that mattered anymore because while she was curled up in the corner of her cell, the lights went out.
And when they turned back on it was worse.
Ending up on a planet—one so different than Earth—greeted by the screams of those who were injured in the crash and the corpses of those who didn't make it, she sets off with the survivors in hopes of finding a way home.
What she finds instead are three golden aliens that won't let her out of their sight, a city on the back of a giant beast, and a ghost world that will never let her leave.
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And when they turned back on it was worse.
Ending up on a planet—one so different than Earth—greeted by the screams of those who were injured in the crash and the corpses of those who didn't make it, she sets off with the survivors in hopes of finding a way home.
What she finds instead are three golden aliens that won't let her out of their sight, a city on the back of a giant beast, and a ghost world that will never let her leave.
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42 books1,611 followersNaomi Lucas is an indie author. She loves being creative whether it’s with painting, writing, or making little jingles about her dog, Barracuda, or her cat, Daliah, in the car.
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April 4, 2018
Loved this complex, and sometimes confusing story about the h who was a prisoner after being an undercover cop. She got lost in the depravity of her role. The 1st H is wonderful, she has found his heartstone, and he is mad for her. But he is one of 3 brothers, they all know she is theirs. One by one they find her, she is reluctant to hurt them, she knows she doesn't deserve them but can't resist them either. The 3rd H knows her story after finding the wreck of her space ship, but he is also the most forgiving. She strives to be a better person and her men give her the chance to do that.
June 29, 2021
I liked this one a bit more than the previous one in the series. It dealt with Yahiro and I thought she would be an interesting character based on the 1st book. Cop who turned a cop killer. I was hoping for more ruthless but ended up with tortured, abused and afraid. I wish all these terrible things never happened to people but I have to hand it to authors that use actual terrible things rather than some namby pamby reason for a characters trauma. I am torn :)
It unfolded with 1 guy at a time, they got to know her separately and yet all together as their "need" for her drove them to be together. The world- again- fantastic. Living in a city on the back of an enormous being that traverses the planet? Reminded me of Martha Wells' Raksura series, the one with the city built on an enormous sea beast (like a manta I think).
Sexy times were sexy, just unfortunate that there was mention of dirt- why can't it be on the soft, fluffy grass or leaves instead of against a tree (ouch!) or kneeling in the dirt? I appreciate the realism but hmmm, no.
It unfolded with 1 guy at a time, they got to know her separately and yet all together as their "need" for her drove them to be together. The world- again- fantastic. Living in a city on the back of an enormous being that traverses the planet? Reminded me of Martha Wells' Raksura series, the one with the city built on an enormous sea beast (like a manta I think).
Sexy times were sexy, just unfortunate that there was mention of dirt- why can't it be on the soft, fluffy grass or leaves instead of against a tree (ouch!) or kneeling in the dirt? I appreciate the realism but hmmm, no.
November 25, 2018
Nope. Just Nope. Dnf at 85% I kept skimming over the paragraphs throughout. But then the plot took a turn in a way that I didn’t like. I stopped when she finally met Galan because wow they were taking the Anguish and Angst really seriously and there was not enough sweetness or cute moments to smoothen out the rough spots they kept hurting themselves over.
I could describe this as angsty and dramatic in a bad way. In a bad annoying way. The sexy tension and soul-bond felt FORCED. There were moments there I could actually admire the writing but the plot wasn’t right. The characters and connection wasn’t right. Hm.
I could describe this as angsty and dramatic in a bad way. In a bad annoying way. The sexy tension and soul-bond felt FORCED. There were moments there I could actually admire the writing but the plot wasn’t right. The characters and connection wasn’t right. Hm.
October 20, 2023
3.25
These were interesting characters and I liked the general idea behind the light valos. I was rather confused about the heartstone, as it was quite a bit different from the previous books. I’m still confused.
Spice: 4/5
Triggers: torture (off page), murder, grief, panic attacks, flashbacks
These were interesting characters and I liked the general idea behind the light valos. I was rather confused about the heartstone, as it was quite a bit different from the previous books. I’m still confused.
Spice: 4/5
Triggers: torture (off page), murder, grief, panic attacks, flashbacks
April 25, 2018
The Valos of Sonhadra series is a Sci-Fi alien romance with each of the 9 books in the series being told by a different author. If you have a favourite author of the bunch and don't want to read them all don't worry, each book can be read as a standalone. The background story for each book is the same, the heroine for nefarious and various reasons has been locked away in a prison ship and being experimented on by scientists. The experimentation changes each of the heroines in some way, which becomes massively useful when the prison ship crash lands on an unfamiliar planet. That's when the heroine starts to meet the natives. Sonhadra, the planet they have landed on, is inhabited by different factions of valos. The valos all have unique abilities and appearances...and most of them haven't seen a female in a long long time.
Radiant by Naomi Lucas
Valos of Sonhadra #5
DNF
Wins the Award for Least Favourite of the Series
Radiant was my least favourite in the series, so much so, that I didn't actually finish it. I got to about 40% and I just didn't want to read any more. This has little to do with the story itself and a lot to do with Naomi Lucas' writing style; I don't like it. It's over embellished and over dramatic and for me, unreadable. So I stopped reading.
Overall thoughts: I didn't like this one, the writing style contains almost everything I can't tolerate so I decided to stop at 40%.
Radiant by Naomi Lucas
Valos of Sonhadra #5
DNF
Wins the Award for Least Favourite of the Series
Radiant was my least favourite in the series, so much so, that I didn't actually finish it. I got to about 40% and I just didn't want to read any more. This has little to do with the story itself and a lot to do with Naomi Lucas' writing style; I don't like it. It's over embellished and over dramatic and for me, unreadable. So I stopped reading.
Overall thoughts: I didn't like this one, the writing style contains almost everything I can't tolerate so I decided to stop at 40%.
January 3, 2019
Better than the last two
One of the things I liked about this book is how the author managed the language barrier. Like the previous books, the translators were still in effect. However, she allowed for some miscommunications due to slang and other nuisances. I didn’t like that she allowed the natives to use American phrasing from time to time though.
The story started fairly interesting. This is the first book in the series that I’ve read that we didn’t have to start on the prison ship or on earth. This one started after the crash, which was nice. I was beginning to tire of all the recaps.
One thing I noticed is this author tried to coordinate a bit with the first two books with the mention of Preta and Charlie. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem like she had The whole story line, because she presented those two as if they were all together on the ship.
One dislike I had for this book, particularly at the beginning, was that the author had way too much internal dialogue happening. It tended to slow down the book.
The characters were distinct, which was nice. The author introduced them slowly to the heroine, which gave time to really solidly the personalities of the first two.
Galen, the last guy, didn’t have as much screen time with the heroine. I got the impression I was supposed to understand him by the way he interacted with others. For me, interpersonal relationships are so important, that his brief interactions with the heroine didn’t really give a firm enough picture.
SPOILER
So far, every heroine gets knocked up in this series. I’m hoping to eventually find out what happens to these first gen broods.
One of the things I liked about this book is how the author managed the language barrier. Like the previous books, the translators were still in effect. However, she allowed for some miscommunications due to slang and other nuisances. I didn’t like that she allowed the natives to use American phrasing from time to time though.
The story started fairly interesting. This is the first book in the series that I’ve read that we didn’t have to start on the prison ship or on earth. This one started after the crash, which was nice. I was beginning to tire of all the recaps.
One thing I noticed is this author tried to coordinate a bit with the first two books with the mention of Preta and Charlie. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem like she had The whole story line, because she presented those two as if they were all together on the ship.
One dislike I had for this book, particularly at the beginning, was that the author had way too much internal dialogue happening. It tended to slow down the book.
The characters were distinct, which was nice. The author introduced them slowly to the heroine, which gave time to really solidly the personalities of the first two.
Galen, the last guy, didn’t have as much screen time with the heroine. I got the impression I was supposed to understand him by the way he interacted with others. For me, interpersonal relationships are so important, that his brief interactions with the heroine didn’t really give a firm enough picture.
SPOILER
So far, every heroine gets knocked up in this series. I’m hoping to eventually find out what happens to these first gen broods.
May 30, 2023
Sentí que avanzó muy lento y era muy molesto porque a la vez había harta acción.
Se conocieron muy tarde además 😔
Anyways, la escenas spicy 10/10 (pero por qué tenían que ser siempre en la tierra, me dio cosita).
Tengo sentimientos encontrados, estoy satisfecha de haberlo leído y, a la vez, varias cosas me dejaron disconforme. Igual me gustó cómo escribe la autora, leería más de ella.
Se conocieron muy tarde además 😔
Anyways, la escenas spicy 10/10 (pero por qué tenían que ser siempre en la tierra, me dio cosita).
Tengo sentimientos encontrados, estoy satisfecha de haberlo leído y, a la vez, varias cosas me dejaron disconforme. Igual me gustó cómo escribe la autora, leería más de ella.
July 24, 2018
I really enjoyed most of this book. I kinda felt like it wrapped up a little too quickly at the end, but I felt the middle dragged a little thus my four star rating. That being said it is a great addition to the series and definitely worth reading if you’ve made it this far.
February 26, 2018
This one was not as good as the rest, either I was confused or the book was confused. I’m going with the book. A lot of things just didn’t line up for me, the flash backs, the different knowledge the guys had, the ending.
February 22, 2018
Interesting tale
Although this story has much to offer, it is not to my personal taste. The characters were too filled with hate. The ending was good and I enjoyed it.
Although this story has much to offer, it is not to my personal taste. The characters were too filled with hate. The ending was good and I enjoyed it.
February 18, 2018
Radient
Radiant is book 5 in the Valid of Sonhadra series. It is a good book. I did have some trouble going back and forth from present to understanding the past and wish it had been clearer. I did like the epilogue better than the other books in series.
Radiant is book 5 in the Valid of Sonhadra series. It is a good book. I did have some trouble going back and forth from present to understanding the past and wish it had been clearer. I did like the epilogue better than the other books in series.
March 9, 2018
This is a fantasy world and all that ... but I didn't feel like the book really provided plausible explanations about how or why things worked. What was that bowl of liquid radiance stuff? How did that work on the MC? etc. Radiant just didn't explain how things worked well enough in comparison to the other stories in this series.
July 6, 2018
I tried with this one and did read the entire thing when what I wanted to do was DNF. Radiant is a part of a more extensive series that is told by different authors all revolving around the same general theme, and each is a standalone book.
One of the main issues I had with Radiant was it didn’t line up with the mythos created with all the other books in this world. Yes, Yahiro bleeds on the heartstone, but the heartstone didn’t belong to her men. I couldn’t reconcile this. I won't spoil who the heartstone belonged to, but it doesn’t fit with all the other books I’ve read. I kept thinking did the authors not get together and lay out a general mythos for the Valos?
The writing style of Radiant didn’t translate well with me, and I never connected with the characters. I was almost always confused about what was going on and just wanted it to get done. Unfortunately, when I don’t like what I am reading, it takes forever. It was a miracle I stuck with this story until the end. I kept hoping it would get better, the only light for me was it did have an HEA.
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One of the main issues I had with Radiant was it didn’t line up with the mythos created with all the other books in this world. Yes, Yahiro bleeds on the heartstone, but the heartstone didn’t belong to her men. I couldn’t reconcile this. I won't spoil who the heartstone belonged to, but it doesn’t fit with all the other books I’ve read. I kept thinking did the authors not get together and lay out a general mythos for the Valos?
The writing style of Radiant didn’t translate well with me, and I never connected with the characters. I was almost always confused about what was going on and just wanted it to get done. Unfortunately, when I don’t like what I am reading, it takes forever. It was a miracle I stuck with this story until the end. I kept hoping it would get better, the only light for me was it did have an HEA.
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May 4, 2018
wild and weird
Radiant is a confusing book. Aside from the lack of editing, mangled metaphors ("carousel went off the rails") and awkward word choices ("oathed") there are repeated flashbacks which add nothing of substance to the story while they befuddle the reader. The heroine is an oddly unlikeable character. The three valos of light are actually more emotionally attractive characters, despite being aliens. Probably the best part of the book are the strangely imaginative details - the city of Dawn perched atop a marching brontosaurus just blew me away. Naomi Lucas is a new-to-me writer, and while I think she needs a lot of development in terms of writing skills, her astounding creativity and fine descriptions make me want to read more of her work.
Radiant is a confusing book. Aside from the lack of editing, mangled metaphors ("carousel went off the rails") and awkward word choices ("oathed") there are repeated flashbacks which add nothing of substance to the story while they befuddle the reader. The heroine is an oddly unlikeable character. The three valos of light are actually more emotionally attractive characters, despite being aliens. Probably the best part of the book are the strangely imaginative details - the city of Dawn perched atop a marching brontosaurus just blew me away. Naomi Lucas is a new-to-me writer, and while I think she needs a lot of development in terms of writing skills, her astounding creativity and fine descriptions make me want to read more of her work.
June 22, 2018
I like this series (what's not to like, really? Hunky aliens entirely devoted to the women they save....yasssss) and I liked this book overall, but I did feel like there were a few scenes where the action jumped (for lack of a better way of putting it) and I had to go back and reread to make sure I didn't miss anything. I've read other books by this author and plan on reading more, so obviously it didn't bother me overly much, but it was something I noted while reading.
With that out of the way, we're finally getting a little more info on the roaming cities (which actually might not have been mentioned in the earlier books, but I'm [somewhat] reading these out of order and now I'm confused on my internal timeline). For the record, the more we see about the Creators, the more I kinda hate them. While I doubt those jerkfaces will end up getting their just desserts in the end (heck, they're probably already dead considering how much time has passed for the poor Valos), they did a number on the inhabitants of this world and it pretty much blows.
Anyway. Yahiro is the first of our heroines who wasn't experimented on. Mostly because she's considered batshit crazy after what happened to land her on the prison ship. Only, she's not really crazy. It's more like she's haunted by what she took part in and what was done to her.
Good thing she has Sundamar, Galan, and Quist to help her find her center. The light elementals have a few tricks up their sleeves and once they find their special someone, they're not letting go.
Again, I'm really enjoying this series and meeting the different tribes (or whatever you want to call them) as they're revealed.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
With that out of the way, we're finally getting a little more info on the roaming cities (which actually might not have been mentioned in the earlier books, but I'm [somewhat] reading these out of order and now I'm confused on my internal timeline). For the record, the more we see about the Creators, the more I kinda hate them. While I doubt those jerkfaces will end up getting their just desserts in the end (heck, they're probably already dead considering how much time has passed for the poor Valos), they did a number on the inhabitants of this world and it pretty much blows.
Anyway. Yahiro is the first of our heroines who wasn't experimented on. Mostly because she's considered batshit crazy after what happened to land her on the prison ship. Only, she's not really crazy. It's more like she's haunted by what she took part in and what was done to her.
Good thing she has Sundamar, Galan, and Quist to help her find her center. The light elementals have a few tricks up their sleeves and once they find their special someone, they're not letting go.
Again, I'm really enjoying this series and meeting the different tribes (or whatever you want to call them) as they're revealed.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
December 6, 2018
I enjoyed this Authors story
So Ms.Lucas picks up where the first book left off which I thoroughly appreciate and it's about Yahiro what a name anyways she was in prison because she was an undercover cop trying to expose her father and step brother, they sold women and dealt drugs any much more so Yahiro decided she would put an end to it she killed her father and step brother destroyed all the drugs and left the women for the police to find and she went on the run and hid in the city but she was eventually found. Turns out there was some pretty damaging evidence that came out in the trial and she was sentenced to the Concord Prison Facility. When the wormhole opens and rips part of the Concord to Sonhadra Yahiro was forging for food like the other women when the beast attacked. She runs into the swamp and comes upon a glowing amulet and there she passes out only to awaken to a strange Alien Angel hollering at her.....Quist thinks Yahiro is his Creator but she's not but for some reason he feels the Creator closest to her, it is Quist life mission to kill his Creator for his cruelty and abandoning him and his people. Once he realizes she couldn't possibly be the Creator he starts to learn more about the woman he feels so connected to and he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt she belongs to him...well...him and his two older brothers.
This book was very well written I enjoyed it very much and I think you will too if you haven't read the first book I would suggest you do it but it's not really necessary I didn't really enjoy the first book at all but some of the others have been pretty good.
So Ms.Lucas picks up where the first book left off which I thoroughly appreciate and it's about Yahiro what a name anyways she was in prison because she was an undercover cop trying to expose her father and step brother, they sold women and dealt drugs any much more so Yahiro decided she would put an end to it she killed her father and step brother destroyed all the drugs and left the women for the police to find and she went on the run and hid in the city but she was eventually found. Turns out there was some pretty damaging evidence that came out in the trial and she was sentenced to the Concord Prison Facility. When the wormhole opens and rips part of the Concord to Sonhadra Yahiro was forging for food like the other women when the beast attacked. She runs into the swamp and comes upon a glowing amulet and there she passes out only to awaken to a strange Alien Angel hollering at her.....Quist thinks Yahiro is his Creator but she's not but for some reason he feels the Creator closest to her, it is Quist life mission to kill his Creator for his cruelty and abandoning him and his people. Once he realizes she couldn't possibly be the Creator he starts to learn more about the woman he feels so connected to and he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt she belongs to him...well...him and his two older brothers.
This book was very well written I enjoyed it very much and I think you will too if you haven't read the first book I would suggest you do it but it's not really necessary I didn't really enjoy the first book at all but some of the others have been pretty good.
March 10, 2018
Quist, Galan, Sundamar and Yahiro
Lusheen was the creator of the light Valos. He formed them from clay. After he left, the newest creation died and crumbled to dust. Over time from newest to oldest the all formed statues of clay, then faded away. All but the oldest three, Sundamar, Galan, and Quist. Sundamar was made in his exact image, Galen was made into who he wished to be, and Quist was made in his anger.
Quist had not been living in their city of light. He has been searching Sonhandra for Lusheen since his disappearance in order to seek his revenge.
Yahiro was on the ship when it crashed. She ran when they were being attacked by Ak'ren. She ran into a swampy area when it was turning dark. When she turned back the way she came to find dry land, she stepped on something that cut her foot. It was a stone that started glowing the darker it got outside. She picked it up and took it with her. She felt warmth while holding it. It also lighted her way. Quist found her soon after this.
This story was a little confusing for me. It went from past remembrances to current time, quite often. The past was italicized so it was easy to follow, but the scenes from the past repeated itself several times and told about people that we knew nothing about until almost the end.
I still gave the story four stars because the overall story was good. It gave us more information on the Creators and other beings.
Lusheen was the creator of the light Valos. He formed them from clay. After he left, the newest creation died and crumbled to dust. Over time from newest to oldest the all formed statues of clay, then faded away. All but the oldest three, Sundamar, Galan, and Quist. Sundamar was made in his exact image, Galen was made into who he wished to be, and Quist was made in his anger.
Quist had not been living in their city of light. He has been searching Sonhandra for Lusheen since his disappearance in order to seek his revenge.
Yahiro was on the ship when it crashed. She ran when they were being attacked by Ak'ren. She ran into a swampy area when it was turning dark. When she turned back the way she came to find dry land, she stepped on something that cut her foot. It was a stone that started glowing the darker it got outside. She picked it up and took it with her. She felt warmth while holding it. It also lighted her way. Quist found her soon after this.
This story was a little confusing for me. It went from past remembrances to current time, quite often. The past was italicized so it was easy to follow, but the scenes from the past repeated itself several times and told about people that we knew nothing about until almost the end.
I still gave the story four stars because the overall story was good. It gave us more information on the Creators and other beings.
December 14, 2020
I was really disappointed with this book. Both the heroes and heroine were too far fetched and predictable even for psychopaths and aliens. The world building was poorly configured and while crazy people in general can be fun to read about, even their consistent crazy monologuing, in the end it still needs to have made sense and it didn't. In the end, the author wrote it all off as the female shedding the person she was and becoming someone new, so not only do readers have no idea who the heroine was, we also don't really have any idea of who she is now.
Her weird absorption of the evil alien villain, who is only ever constantly introduced as someone everyone hates and wants to kill, is also not fully explained. It's not really partially explained either other than she was sick for awhile and then suddenly better one day. There was also no point in having the third hero spend so much time with other human survivors, interact with them for 20% of the book and then suddenly he's no longer with them.
The description of a one star rating "I hate it" is correct. I hated this novel and forced myself to the end in hopes of everything coming together cohesively. Instead, I'm left angry at myself for not walking away sooner and saving my time.
No, I would not recommend this story to others. No, I would not consider reading anything else by this author.
Her weird absorption of the evil alien villain, who is only ever constantly introduced as someone everyone hates and wants to kill, is also not fully explained. It's not really partially explained either other than she was sick for awhile and then suddenly better one day. There was also no point in having the third hero spend so much time with other human survivors, interact with them for 20% of the book and then suddenly he's no longer with them.
The description of a one star rating "I hate it" is correct. I hated this novel and forced myself to the end in hopes of everything coming together cohesively. Instead, I'm left angry at myself for not walking away sooner and saving my time.
No, I would not recommend this story to others. No, I would not consider reading anything else by this author.
April 9, 2018
Didn't care for this one much.
Yahiro didn't think she would ever go to prison.
She thought she would always be on the otherside of the law.
However, that wasn't the case and she ended up being blamed for things, while responsible, were largely more a part of her family's business.
She thought she'd spend her days locked away in her prison cell, floating around in space.
She never expected for the prison to crash land on an alien planet.
Much less, be saved by angel-like beings.
This story confused me at times.
The repetitiveness of the "dreams" were jumbled and I wasn't sure of their significance until the end.
However, I didn't see the point of repeating some of the same parts multiple times.
Maybe picking up where they left of from last time, but not the same thing over and over again.
I felt at times some of the content wasn't needed.
I thought maybe some of the things talked about would make a bigger impact later on in the story, though some of it never did.
Most of it did make sense in the end and I enjoyed the story.
I would like to see more from the characters storyline.
I just felt like there was some things left unresolved.
While I enjoyed it, and would recommend to readers of the series, I think if I was to re-read the series, I would skip this book.
Yahiro didn't think she would ever go to prison.
She thought she would always be on the otherside of the law.
However, that wasn't the case and she ended up being blamed for things, while responsible, were largely more a part of her family's business.
She thought she'd spend her days locked away in her prison cell, floating around in space.
She never expected for the prison to crash land on an alien planet.
Much less, be saved by angel-like beings.
This story confused me at times.
The repetitiveness of the "dreams" were jumbled and I wasn't sure of their significance until the end.
However, I didn't see the point of repeating some of the same parts multiple times.
Maybe picking up where they left of from last time, but not the same thing over and over again.
I felt at times some of the content wasn't needed.
I thought maybe some of the things talked about would make a bigger impact later on in the story, though some of it never did.
Most of it did make sense in the end and I enjoyed the story.
I would like to see more from the characters storyline.
I just felt like there was some things left unresolved.
While I enjoyed it, and would recommend to readers of the series, I think if I was to re-read the series, I would skip this book.
February 25, 2018
Sunshine is always great !!
I have read 1-4 books in this series, and I enjoyed this one as well. The 1st , and 2nd books were about sisters, and the 3rd and 4th , and 5th books were about acquaintance 's ,and friends. In this 5th book , Yahiro is one of the Only inmates that was Not experimented on. But she definitely has internal scrape s and scars and hurt and pain flowing through her veins. A lot of bad things happened in the dark , and so , of course , that is an area of fear and displacement for her. Her hero 's are all Sunshine and light , and warmth and , most of all HEAT!! Opposite s attract ,and in this book , it is a lovely heartwarming , wild and crazy ride ( Literally) to the sky cities that is their home . All of your emotions will be involved while reading this ,and I am looking forward to the next installment.
I found this book to be at times sad, confusing, and happy .. And this series has introduced me to Author's that I most probably would not have read before.
I have read 1-4 books in this series, and I enjoyed this one as well. The 1st , and 2nd books were about sisters, and the 3rd and 4th , and 5th books were about acquaintance 's ,and friends. In this 5th book , Yahiro is one of the Only inmates that was Not experimented on. But she definitely has internal scrape s and scars and hurt and pain flowing through her veins. A lot of bad things happened in the dark , and so , of course , that is an area of fear and displacement for her. Her hero 's are all Sunshine and light , and warmth and , most of all HEAT!! Opposite s attract ,and in this book , it is a lovely heartwarming , wild and crazy ride ( Literally) to the sky cities that is their home . All of your emotions will be involved while reading this ,and I am looking forward to the next installment.
I found this book to be at times sad, confusing, and happy .. And this series has introduced me to Author's that I most probably would not have read before.
March 10, 2018
Yahiro is a rather tragic figure. Went through a lot of awful things in her life. Warning a lot of mental torture and implied sexual torture in her story before she ended up in space ship prison. After the ship crashes on an alien planet she manages to run away while she hears some of the people screaming as they are dinner for some local creatures. She gets away and runs into Quist a gorgeous male with wings. They can not understand each other at first until the translator implanted in her brain starts to work. Quist has two brothers Galan and Sundamar who are feeling everything Quist is feeling strong physical attraction in relation to Yahiro mentally and more. They end up all together and it is sweet and happy.
May 19, 2018
Meh
Well got to say I couldn't stand the alpha do what your told attitude.
I also had to keep reading sentences because the way they were written confused me at times, also I feel that even tho we got multiple pov I still didn't actually feel like I knew what was going on with the guys at times (how did we get from suspicion too feeling sorry for someone in the blink of an eye? )
It's just my opinion, the story line was good and I did kinda crush on Quist, however the only reason I kept reading was too find out Yahiros back story, which I feel wasn't really discribed the best and I'm not entirely sure about some things... Like what exactly happened on the porch in her last flashback?
Well got to say I couldn't stand the alpha do what your told attitude.
I also had to keep reading sentences because the way they were written confused me at times, also I feel that even tho we got multiple pov I still didn't actually feel like I knew what was going on with the guys at times (how did we get from suspicion too feeling sorry for someone in the blink of an eye? )
It's just my opinion, the story line was good and I did kinda crush on Quist, however the only reason I kept reading was too find out Yahiros back story, which I feel wasn't really discribed the best and I'm not entirely sure about some things... Like what exactly happened on the porch in her last flashback?
September 8, 2020
As soon as the heroes get a vision of their mate, they start jerking off in the same room??? After completion, they just leave it on the floor and wipe their hands on their clothes??? Threesome scene was weird in how Quist just stripped her and offered her to his arrogant brother, Sun. she was unsure and confused and he just passed her off.... AFTER She witnessed that Sun almost killed Quist upon their first meeting.. wtf.. not to mention poor girl had lots of past abuse.. wtf.. they seemed to just take her whenever the wanted... and carry her around naked? An abuse victim or anyone for that matter, shouldn't be ok w that....bleh... the story was enough to keep my interest so finished the book but did not like the heroes alot of the time and did not feel the romance/love
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November 28, 2023
best so far
There is a lot of character development in this one which makes it the best so far. I think there are 4 spice scenes and they go up to about 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ in intensity. Yahiro is a great heroine and has a dark af past, which we actually see in this book get fully revealed and also lend itself nicely to her character development. Also the author took time to actually logic out some of the things this series has brushed aside so far (language learning, culture and species difference and understanding, actually going into depth about a Creator and these Valos’ resulting attitudes towards them.) 3.9/5
Tropes are the expected ones: rh, alien romance, mates kinda but not fated just coincidental?, character transformation, pregnancy at the end
There is a lot of character development in this one which makes it the best so far. I think there are 4 spice scenes and they go up to about 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ in intensity. Yahiro is a great heroine and has a dark af past, which we actually see in this book get fully revealed and also lend itself nicely to her character development. Also the author took time to actually logic out some of the things this series has brushed aside so far (language learning, culture and species difference and understanding, actually going into depth about a Creator and these Valos’ resulting attitudes towards them.) 3.9/5
Tropes are the expected ones: rh, alien romance, mates kinda but not fated just coincidental?, character transformation, pregnancy at the end
January 7, 2020
***A bit confusing***
I loved all the valos of Sonhadra that I've read so far... But for some reason this book is how should I say, is weird, I meant to start with Yahiro was never experimented on and she supposed to be psycho/crazy bitch but she is the exact opposite, she is submissive and sweet and very accommodating. And her constant flash back dream doesn't not make any sense at all it didn't fit in her character. Ok I was gonna give it a 3 star rating but the babies saved this story. (Spoiler) And the amazing character building its fantastic. I love Quist, Sundamar and Galan and the photos at the end was a happy surprised thank you.
I loved all the valos of Sonhadra that I've read so far... But for some reason this book is how should I say, is weird, I meant to start with Yahiro was never experimented on and she supposed to be psycho/crazy bitch but she is the exact opposite, she is submissive and sweet and very accommodating. And her constant flash back dream doesn't not make any sense at all it didn't fit in her character. Ok I was gonna give it a 3 star rating but the babies saved this story. (Spoiler) And the amazing character building its fantastic. I love Quist, Sundamar and Galan and the photos at the end was a happy surprised thank you.
March 12, 2020
Rays of light
I was confused by some things. I grew up in a rough life and understand many criminal and police behaviors but I was confused about Yahiro. (Sorry if misspelled) supposed to have been a daughter of a kingpin that had drugs, and human trafficking and he let his daughter be what? Raped repeatedly at a young age, used as a drug tester and raped repeatedly as an adult. Plus join police so called undercover and she was arrested??? That whole storyline was unbelievable, and only worked if she really was a druggie that was mentally ill with loss of reality.
Now her coming to the planet and parts of story were great. Liked the ending.
I was confused by some things. I grew up in a rough life and understand many criminal and police behaviors but I was confused about Yahiro. (Sorry if misspelled) supposed to have been a daughter of a kingpin that had drugs, and human trafficking and he let his daughter be what? Raped repeatedly at a young age, used as a drug tester and raped repeatedly as an adult. Plus join police so called undercover and she was arrested??? That whole storyline was unbelievable, and only worked if she really was a druggie that was mentally ill with loss of reality.
Now her coming to the planet and parts of story were great. Liked the ending.
September 9, 2021
DNF 50%. 3 things (among others) annoyed me:
- The heroine had 0 personality
- The heroine is called Yahiro. According to wikipedia, this comes from Japan. So... what's up with the Caucasian woman on the cover? Am I missing something?
- Hint of homophobia. It's not as obvious in the other books but here it's quite blatant that homosexuality is not on the authors' radar. So you got
1. A species created with only males
2. This species was created with functioning sex organs.
And somehow none of them tried to check out the other males!? Oh no, let's avoid sex for hundreds of years because there's no vagina available.
- The heroine had 0 personality
- The heroine is called Yahiro. According to wikipedia, this comes from Japan. So... what's up with the Caucasian woman on the cover? Am I missing something?
- Hint of homophobia. It's not as obvious in the other books but here it's quite blatant that homosexuality is not on the authors' radar. So you got
1. A species created with only males
2. This species was created with functioning sex organs.
And somehow none of them tried to check out the other males!? Oh no, let's avoid sex for hundreds of years because there's no vagina available.
November 14, 2023
I didn’t like any of the characters. The guys were overly violent man children who had only been able to masturbate for a century. Yahiro was a confusing female who went from panic attack to raging and her backstory didn’t make sense. She seemed to bond to the guys out of desperation rather than any emotional connections.
The world building didn’t match up to the other stories well. How are there giant creatures with cities on their backs that destroy the vegetation on Sonhadra with every step? How is the world not destroyed with three of them? Also why was Lusheenn different from the other Creators?
The world building didn’t match up to the other stories well. How are there giant creatures with cities on their backs that destroy the vegetation on Sonhadra with every step? How is the world not destroyed with three of them? Also why was Lusheenn different from the other Creators?
February 14, 2018
Yahiro is a conflicted heroine. She doesn't think she deserves any happiness. She's wrong but her past does have issues that she needs to resolve for herself.
The heroes Sundamar, Galan, and Quist are Light Valos. Sundamar and Galan are together, looking for Quist. Quist finds Yahiro while she is lost after escaping the prison ship crash. Once they are all together, so many things come out. They all have emotional issues that need to be addressed before they can be happy together. Resolving those issues is a fantastic voyage to their HEA.
The heroes Sundamar, Galan, and Quist are Light Valos. Sundamar and Galan are together, looking for Quist. Quist finds Yahiro while she is lost after escaping the prison ship crash. Once they are all together, so many things come out. They all have emotional issues that need to be addressed before they can be happy together. Resolving those issues is a fantastic voyage to their HEA.
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