Showing posts with label science fiction romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction romance. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

B is for Blood Hunter series by Nina Croft

 

For 2013's A to Z Challenge, I am talking about book series, particularly some favorite series as well as series I've been waiting to read for a LONG time.

B is for ... Blood Hunter series by Nina Croft

Many months ago, I read Break Out by Nina Croft, book one of the Blood Hunter series. Nina's series is unique in the fact that it takes not only space travel but adds vampires to it. I was intrigued by the premise and loved the worldbuilding involved, and trust me, Nina knows how to write some steamy romance scenes too. Even though I've only read Break Out, I need to soon remedy that and read book two Deadly Pursuits.

Irreverent. Irresponsible. Insatiable. Who says immortals can't have any fun?

The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they’ve discovered the secret of immortality—Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon evolves. The Collective, as they’re called, rule the universe.

Two-thousand-year-old Ricardo Sanchez, vampire and rogue pilot of the space cruiser, El Cazador, can’t resist two things: gorgeous women and impossible jobs. When beautiful Skylar Rossaria approaches him to break a prisoner out of the Collective’s maximum security prison on Trakis One, Rico jumps at the chance. Being hunted by the Collective has never been so dangerous–or so fun!
Click here to read my review.
Breaking assassin Jonathon Decker out of a maximum security prison on Trakis One seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, pursued across space by the two most powerful factions in the universe, the crew of El Cazador are having second thoughts. They’d like to give him back. Unfortunately, that no longer seems an option.

Jon is used to working alone. Now, he’s stuck on the space cruiser El Cazador until he can work out just what he’s supposed to know that puts him on everybody’s most-wanted-dead list. He’s not happy that the crew includes a runaway priestess with designs on his virtue—such as it is. Jon likes women, but he gave up the role of protector a long time ago, and Alexia, High Priestess of the Church of Everlasting Life, is an accident waiting to happen.

After twenty-four excruciatingly boring years of doing her duty, Alex is finally having some fun. She never meant to run away—it was a rash impulse—and she means to go back—eventually. But first, she’s going to squeeze enough excitement out of the situation to last her a lifetime. And what could be more exciting than a stunningly gorgeous werewolf?

Meanwhile, the Church are chasing their missing priestess, and the Collective are pursuing their escaped assassin. Being hunted has never been more deadly…or more fun.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: HAVEN 6 by Aubrie Dionne

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
 
 
Haven 6 by Aubrie Dionne
Page 6 of PDF ARC

She thought of all the ways to express disappointment in the languages of Old Earth: apogoitefsi in Greek, rozczarowanie in Polish, die Enttauschung in German, and desappointement in French. Such useless knowledge.

Do you have a teaser? Feel free to share one or a link to one in the comments.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Book Review: HAVEN 6 by Aubrie Dionne


Title: Haven 6
Series: New Dawn #3
Author: Aubrie Dionne
Publisher: Entangled Publishing (September 11, 2012)
Format: eARC Novel
Source: Author
Genre: Science Fiction Romance

A product of an illegal pairing, Eridani is the only woman without a lifemate aboard the colonization ship, the Heritage, and she is determined her less than perfect DNA will not get in the way of finding love. As the ship nears it's final destination of Haven 6 after five hundred years of travel, images of the surface show evidence of intelligent life on a planet that's supposed to be uninhabited. Commander Grier assigns Eri to the exploratory team to spy on the alien society and return with information on how to defeat them.

When Eri's team lands, tribes of humans attack and Eri is saved by Striver, the descendant of a colonist and a pirate from Old Earth's colonization efforts in other parts of the galaxy. Striver helps Eri rescue her team and they are drawn to each other despite their different allegiances. While Striver battles with trusting Eri, Eri must decide whether to warn him and his people about the commander's intentions, or follow orders and complete her mission.

Review: Faith in humanity comes from the strength of love in Aubrie Dionne’s Haven 6, a thrilling conclusion to the epic New Dawn series. 

Linguist Eridani Smith lived her life on the Heritage as a second class citizen because of an illegal pairing. Yet her skills come into play when scouting vessels report that the planet Haven 6 might not be as uninhabited as the colonists hoped. With a small exploratory team, Eri has to travel to Haven 6, befriend the aliens, and report to the commander about how to exterminate them, but nothing is as easy as it seems. The so-called aliens are humans from Old Earth too, and she has to decide whether to follow orders or her heart. 

Haven 6 quickly had me sitting on the edge of my seat and holding my breath while I read. To think of traveling hundreds of years to find out your planet is already taken must be devastating. The characters are well-rounded and feisty with their individual quirks. The plot weaves through several characters and brilliantly touches on the other books in the New Dawn series. Dionne has created a fantastical world set amongst the stars. The stakes are high and packed with emotion, and the writing style is beautiful and firmly set within the characters’ minds. At the end, Dionne ties up the threads from her entire series to reaffirm the theme of hope, unity, and love. 

Haven 6 by Aubrie Dionne is the perfect end to a fantastic science fiction romance series, although I miss the characters and worlds already.


Five Bookworms = I loved it!

Other Books in the Series:
Click here for my review.

Click here for my review.

Click here for my review.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Book Review: A HERO RISING by Aubrie Dionne


Title: A Hero Rising
Series: A New Dawn #3
Author: Aubrie Dionne
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Format: Ebook Novella
Source: Purchased on Amazon
Genre: Science Fiction Romance

Description: After watching his love leave on a colony ship, James Wilfred must save those left behind from a planetary apocalypse. Their salvation lies in an unfinished ship tucked away in a secret government base, and only James can break in and pilot him and his people to freedom on a nearby space station.

Skye O’Connor’s boyfriend never returns after his gang attempts an assassination of the Governor, and the State Building is destroyed. Worse, crazed moonshiners addicted to the chemical Morpheus have stormed the city, and she must find a safe place for her and her boyfriend’s daughter. When a heroic man saves her, Skye asks to accompany him on his quest to find the last colony ship left on Earth.

As the city falls around them, James and Skye must work together to build a new future, all the while rediscovering their ability to love, before the apocalypse claims them both.

Review: A Hero Rising by Aubrie Dionne takes the reader to the beginning in this prequel of the New Dawn series.

Earth is no longer safe, and James Wilfred and Skye O’Connor must find a way off their dying planet at all costs. As James watches the love of his life leave in a spaceship, he thinks all is lost until he learns an unfinished spaceship may be their ticket off this planet. Skye watched her boyfriend leave with his gang in their attempts to assassinate the governor. Now she watches over his child and must battle the moonshiners from killing them. When James and she team up, they discover the strength they have together, but if it’ll be enough to save themselves and those they love, only time will tell.

Aubrie Dionne has done it once again in creating an action-packed, suspenseful tale filled with love and tenderness. A Hero Rising takes humanity at its most dire and showcases how people react to their world falling apart. Some crash and burn with it, but James and Skye rise above it and find courage, bravery, and love. From Paradise 21 and Tundra 37, readers glimpse what happened in the past, but now readers will see how the path to the stars was people’s only chance. The pace rarely let up, and I feared for the characters. Plus, the alien-like zombies or moonshiners are scary.

Romance, a touch of horror, a post-apocalyptic planet, and space...what more can a reader ask for! Although I encourage others to read Aubrie Dionne’s Paradise 21 and Tundra 37 because they are wonderful, touching reads, Dionne’s A Hero Rising can stand alone.

Five Bookworms = I loved it!
 Other books in the series:
 
Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne
Read my review here.

 
Tundra 37 by Aubrie Dionne
Read my review here.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: A HERO RISING by Aubrie Dionne

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 
A Hero Rising by Aubrie Dionne
23% of Kindle version

"You'd be surprised how many secret passageways architects hid in these high-rises."

If only she'd known.

Do you have a teaser for us? If so, leave it or the link in the comments.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Book Review: TUNDRA 37 by Aubrie Dionne


Title: Tundra 37
Series: A New Dawn, #2
Author: Aubrie Dionne
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (February 7, 2012)
Format: eARC
Source: Author
Genre: Science Fiction Romance
Goodreads  

Description: Gemme is a hi-tech matchmaker who pairs the next generation of Lifers aboard the Expedition, a deep space transport vessel destined for Paradise 18. When the identity of her lifemate pops up on her screen, she's shocked that he's the achingly gorgeous and highly sought after Lieutenant Miles Brentwood, a man oblivious to her existence. Believing everyone will think she contrived the match, she erases it from the computer's memory. Just as comets pummel the ship and destroy the pairing system forever. With the Expedition disabled, the colonists must crash land on the barren ice world of Tundra 37 where Gemme is reassigned to an exploratory mission, led by Lieutenant Brentwood. Only in the frozen tundra does she understand the shape of his heart and why the computer has entwined their destinies.

Review: A spectacular science fiction romance novel, Aubrie Dionne’s Tundra 37 excites and sizzles despite the chill of deep space and an ice-covered planet.

Gemme’s perfectly ordered world is about to be shattered. As a matchmaker aboard the Expedition, she has life all figured out, but then she’s paired with the handsome Lieutenant Miles Brentwood. Every lady wants him, especially her enemy Luna Legacy. In a haste decision, she deletes her own pairing and finds her world breaking apart in a shower of comets. When their spaceship crashes on the ice planet Tundra 37, Gemme is reassigned to an exploratory mission, led by none other than Brentwood. As Gemme struggles with her attraction to him, she must find a way to survive within the chaos of her new life.

Tundra 37 ensnares the reader and explodes upon the page in a fast-paced space adventure filled with romance, mystery, and fantastical creatures. Gemme is an unlikely heroine, but she captures the reader’s heart, and I couldn’t help but cheer for her and Brentwood. Dionne’s beautiful way with words can pour tenderness with a single glance, and yet strike the reader with the dangers and horrors of this new planet. The scenes between the past and present read seamlessly and draw the reader further into the characters’ motives. The romance is sweet, and the science fiction is out of this universe.

Tundra 37 may very well be Aubrie Dionne’s best novel to date!

Five Bookworms = I loved it!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: TUNDRA 37 by Aubrie Dionne

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
 
Tundra 37 by Aubrie Dionne
Page 13 Galley Copy

Did Abysme's voice hold a hint of desperation, a fraction of humanity? Or was Mestasis the only one of them to weigh such decisions on her soul?

Do you have a teaser? Feel free to share your teasers in the comments.