TURN BACK THE CLOCK/ BOOK REVIEW
Break Down of the book and my ratings
The Plot ::: 5/5
The Main Characters ::: 5/5
The Supporting cast :::: 5/5
The Feels :::: 5/5
The Angst :::: 5/5
How hot it is :::: 5/5
Writing Style :::: 5/5
World Building :::: 5/5
Originality :::: 5/5
Ending :::: 5/5
Book Cover :::: Fabulous
Series :::: Alien Warriors
Format :::: Kindle eBook
Purchase Price:::: £3.98
Buying Link :::: https://amzn.to/38cMcui
Would I read more from the author? :::: Yes
Would I recommend this book? :::: Yes
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Four great things about this book.
1) Mind-blowing world building.
2) Unpredictable and engaging plot.
3) Fabulous Secondary Characters
4) I never thought I’d write a glowing review for a book filled with alien snake men and fabulous gladiator sex. Yet here I am __ PHENOMENAL BOOK
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“She is mine to protect, mine to shelter, mine to feed and mine to cover. When she is weak, I shall be her strength. She was stolen from her world by our captors. Now her survival is my responsibility. It is her duty to endure my lust, respect my nest mates and honour our union with offspring. I revere this giver of life, as is the way.”~ Venomous One, formerly of Rök, enslaved gladiator
SYNOPSIS
Abducted from Earth and transported to a slave planet in an unknown galaxy, Lumen finds herself, shackled, naked and put on display before an alien horde. Told the males will battle for the right to slake their lusts with her body, she would become the slave of slaves. Venomous One, a proud warrior enslaved, has given up hope of returning to his home world and finding a life mate. When a female is tossed into the arena his soul demands he claim her. Winning his mate by Right of Might, he vows to protect Lumen and be a good provider, no matter how ugly her human appearance. Rescued by Venomous’ people, the couple face space pirates, the condemnation of an alien government, galactic war, and a deadlier threat from within the warrior’s own kindred.
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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK ENJOY !!!!!!!!
BEFORE
Great Serpent, I hurt. Separated from kindred and lonesome. How did a sane mind survive the endless spans of misery? Rock, blood, heat and grief. There! Bone-shaking sensation. There! Fang-rattling pleasure. Air floods the pits of lungs atrophied from disuse. Blood rushes into muscles long dormant. Bright surges of vigour and strength infuse the warrior with purpose. The one is female. Rock, blood, heat, grief and her.
Hurtling through the darkness the warrior stalks the scent. Elusive. Fading…. No! Growing stronger. Run faster. A clawed fist smashes rock. Feverish eyes glint from the dark. Bared fangs drip venom as a guttural hiss pierces the din. I need. I need. I need. Unimaginable pain. Male. Hope bursts through the agony of existing for existence sake. The noise of the horde silences. Flames of hell transform to a cage of black rock, and a roar quakes the foundations of a nightmare. Shock ripples. Disbelief. A dawning realisation and yawning of dread. Foes tremble and shy into the bowels of the great nothing. Sheer terror. Terror of what the warrior has become. It sends them rabid with fear. Trapped. Trapped with a beast seeking to mate. Blood drenches the battlefield. Fight for her. The command rings in his ear. I shall fight without end. Never-ending. The devotion to
her is never-ending. Fangs aching. Muscles swelling. Gold glinting. Hearts beating. Mine to protect. Wild with lust the warrior fights in desperation. Mine to shelter. Straining, howling, desperation. Mine to feed. Tear flesh with tooth and claw. Not enough. Shatter bone with muscle and might. And mine to cover. They are weak and he is strong. Mine.
Warning: violence, profanity and sexual situations with multiple partners.
CULT CLASSIC BLOODY LOVED THIS
When I pick up an alien romance, it's because I want to read about something outside of my own experiences and understanding of romance, I want the Alien to be ALIEN, I want to read something that I have not read 100 times over, to step outside the box and if possible push the boundaries of expectancy. Venomous delivered this and more. Lumen had been kidnapped, experimented on and determined useless and thrown into an arena as a prize to the winner. He, Venomous One is a Ra, they are born sexless until they come into contact with their life mates at which point they mature and become male or female. Ra culture, appearance (4 armed snake men) and idea of romance are different from humans, obviously, there is a scene in the beginning that readers might object to and may cause a trigger but it is very short lived and is actually part of the story, and a need to understand if not accept. This is a reverse harem book but it is done with taste and not overly sexual yes there are sexy times but its only a very small part of the story and in some cases very funny. We are introduced to her other mates one by one and not all just pouncing on her like a dog with a bone, it made for some very funny scenes especially with Fiercely Comes the Night, mate number 2, then we have the marvelous Cobra, who gives Venomous a run for his money if I am honest, then we meet THUNDERCLAW, who is hilarious.
This is not an easy book to read at times it is harsh, but captivating, looking at another world starting from the worst imaginable. This is not a romance where the aliens are just humans with different appearances, a harsh existence exists even for the fittest and strongest. They are not the ALIEN , Lumen is !! and as such this is where you need to step outside of your comfort zone and just flow with the story. It is totally worth it.
Lumen is treated atrociously at first and from Venomous's family, she throws a well deserved temper tantrum. Her trying to get Venomous to understand something he did which to Lumen is RAPE, to him was his arrival of been MALE, was quite difficult to read.
The trials that both Lumen and Venomous go through you can feel the angst coming through the pages. while Lumen does break down she grows up fast and comes to realize that she is the alien and must assimilate and through this we learn a lot about Ra culture it is as if it is real. The world building is outstanding, it is very funny in places, but there are some difficult passages as well, This book for me will be a cult classic. One of those you want everyone to read at the same time as you don’t because it is such a good book, you don’t want anyone giving it a negative review.
This book will grab your attention from the first page and will not let go until the last page. Their relationship did not start of on the best of terms, but slowly built up with h/h learning about each other and learn to trust each other in a less than ideal situation.
The pace of the story was ideal given the situation that the h/h found themselves in. As the story progress, we see how Lumen grews from being fearful to being a stronger person after all that she had been through. Each time she was introduced to a new mate, she had to work through the cultural differences in order to reconcile what is expected of her on her new home world. It was not only Lumen who had to examine and change her previously held views, Venomous had to change as well in order to accept his decidedly alien mate.
Overall, this was more than a sweet romance between strangers but more of a couple who met in the most unfortunate of situation and was there for each other. They were the light in a very dark situation for each other. Venomous who had almost given up all thoughts of ever seeing his home planet again and Lumen who was almost at the end of her sanity. There was laughter, tears and love and the odd space pirates.
I can not praise this book enough, Outstanding, just from the cover alone, I love it when A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK ACTUALLY IS SCIENCE FICTION.
Book 2 is Thunderclaw
'Truth, I am who females like best.' ~King Beowyn, Great Alpha, House of ThunderClaw
'My wife and husband do not get along.' ~ High Commander Éorik, Royal Defender, House of SnowBlade
'Like my ancestors before me, I fight to the death for freedom.' ~ Sìne of Clan Grae
'Want binky.' ~ Fergie of Clan Grae
A King, his commander, an Earthling and her kin.
Trekking through outer space to distant galaxies.
Feasts, a storm, annihilation and rebirth.
This tale is about the bonds between family and friends. A saga of the love between a woman and two aliens.
Warning: violence, profanity and sexual situations with multiple partners.
Book 3
Bhyr: Science Fiction Romance (Alien Warrior Book 3)
We are the destroyers of worlds. The scourge of the weak and the masters of creation. We are as one fist, one blade, one almighty force. We are horde.
~Unknown, Ranked Warrior of the Azteka Horde
Bhyr, leader of the Azteka Horde, is committed to saving his species from extinction. Taking the human female as a breeder is his divine right. He will breed her, anoint his spawn, and then rid himself of the complications that come with a mate. But when the time comes, will he be able to strike down the one he loves most?
Indira is abducted from Earth and leashed to an alien barbarian. He wants one thing of her: an heir. Vowing to escape his clutches, Indira begins a revolt that causes ripples throughout the galaxy. But as she strives to thwart the most feared being in the universe, she must question how the warrior she defied became the darkest desire of her heart.
Warning: violence, profanity, psychological trauma, forced seduction and sexual content.
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About the Author Penelope Fletcher
Biography
Her female characters are dear to her. As she strives to allow them their strength and their innate femininity. As for loyalty to their emotional, romantic hearts and their sense of social responsibility and destiny, She see’s no need to sacrifice one for the other. Women wield an intoxicating power. It goes beyond physical prettiness to the beauty of the whole. Without the poetry of the mind and heart the body becomes a useless thing. She wants her female characters to be brave, daring, and bold. A wish for their minds to be as relevant and celebrated as their bodies.’ ~Penelope Fletcher, 2014
Penelope Jade Fletcher is a British author of genre romance.
She has a number of international digital best-sellers, reaching the Amazon Kindle UK Top 100 chart in early 2011 with her third book, and the Barnes & Noble Nook Top 100 chart later the same year with her fifth. Debuting at twenty two years old in 2010 with young adult fantasy Glamour, Penelope predominantly writes romance novels with supernatural elements.
Penelope has independently sold over 100,000 eBooks. She loves nothing more than reading. Writing comes a close second.
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