Career military man Cavas Vellar has joined his older brother, Cathian, aboard The Vorge for one purpose—to rescue their youngest littermate. Their father has resorted to having him kidnapped to hide one of his most vile secrets. They need to go down onto a planet full of criminals, find Crath, and rescue him. This mission is the most important one Cavas has ever led.Jill was betrayed when Earth … betrayed when Earth sold her into alien slavery. She owes her life to Cavas and the Vorge crew for taking her out of a cell and to their ship. When she learns why they were on that planet to begin with…she feels it’s her duty to help them find their missing brother. Even if it means losing her recently gained freedom.
One determined alien on a mission. One woman who notices how sexy he is. This is their story.
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Rescued by two brothers
Another member of The Vorge crew falls hard for the new human in his life. I love how the author brought these two together and made them slightly resistant to the pull. She filled the pages of this book full of action and danger right to a HEA that was meant to be. I do wish we could have been a little more involved in the capture of dear ole dad, but it was not meant to be. I can’t wait to read all about the last two crew members finding their life-locks, although I feel like no matter what Marrow wants, she needs an even more over the top alpha male then the brothers are.
Great addition to the series. Jill was sold by Earth as a slave and was saved from being a sex slave by Cavas. He found her while saving his brother/littermate. Cavas didn’t think he wanted a human female as a life-lock but quickly changed his mind.
I love this author’s New Species series. The rest of her work is okay. This series has a LOT of promise, but the story and plots are too short to live up to their promise.
This one in particular was the least favorite of this series. The entire story was completed before the romance even started so they added onto the book that has nothing to do with the plot, just a romance AFTER the plot. It wasn’t great.
Still, I was interested and entertained, but just disappointed.
Oh, Laurann Dohner, you are driving me nuts with these cheesy resolves that leave me dissatisfied, and with sugar headaches.
The Vorge Crew series had a great start. Cathian and Nara kicked it off with a fantastically smutty relationship founded by Cathian’s need to have a female prepare him for his heat. And then Dovis and Mari came along and, I loved the dynamic and romance of these two. Dovis is such a grump, and Mari is such a sweetheart.
But the author has a formula, and some of her habits make me crazy. The FC is always betrayed by a prominent male in their lives, cheating husbands, conniving fathers, controlling employers. They are always threatened with sexual assault or experienced a sexually inappropriate advance from some creeper. And LD favors names that end in vowels. The Vorge females are Nara, Mari, Sara, Lilly, and Jill–Oh, and if they don’t end in vowels, they tend to be somewhat derivative of one another. So Lilly and Jillian.
But it’s much more than that.
The VLG series: Dusti, Betina, Kira, Glenda, Jadee, Gerri, Jillian (again), Angel, Mandy, Emma, and Shay.
New Species series: Ellie, Trisha, Tammy, Jessie, Becca, Lauren, Zandy, Allie, Beauty, Joyce, Jeanie, Kat, Vanni, Dana, Candi, Melinda, and Mary.
Cyborg Seduction series: Mira, Rena, Dawn, Megan, Jill (again), Charlie, Cyan, Eve, Venice, Nala, and Mickala.
Zorn Warriors series: Ariel, Casey, Brenda, Shanna, and Lynn.
And with those names, she has created some fantastically LOL moments like when Hero says that ‘They can’t take my Candi!’.
I used to call these Dohner’s Sins. Adding to the above repetitions was the fact that everyone wears sweats, eats an alarming amount of steak, drinks a more disturbing amount of soda, and all the bad guys named after local-yokel names like Roy, Jim-Bob, Carl, Billy, or Decker. I grew up with rural-type names, and it’s insulting that these people are backward rapists and prejudice zealots.
Now to Cavas–Jillian lost her job on earth because her male boss propositioned her creating untenable work conditions. After becoming unemployed, the patriarchal Earth government sold her into slavery to aliens. Purchasing Jillian was a bug-type alien who used slaves for sexual pleasure–fighting against a sexual assault she fleed, and when caught, she was imprisoned in a pleasure house, a future full of more abuse.
Her life saved when Cavas comes looking for his brother Crath. Indebted to Cavas and the Vorge Crew, she offers herself as a sacrificial accomplice to a jailbreak. She returns to a planet that she escaped from where she again encounters sexual humiliation and threat.
But just when it can’t be triter, there is an abrupt ‘Final Act’ in the last twenty or so percent Cavas deems Jillian ‘sexually compatible,’ and he is going to mate and ‘keep her.’ It reads like LD is running up to word count limit and just had to stuff in a romance for the ending. As she writes more novels, distilling her books down to the same events, but names change–and probably the females’ names will end in A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y this happens more frequently. (see Lavos)
Why do I continue to read her books?
Laurann Dohner was one of the first authors I read when I moved to the city I reside in now; in a certain way, reading her books is a bit of a tribute and tradition–one that becomes less enjoyable with time. I pay full price for her books that most of the time, don’t appeal to me these days.
I am hoping that maybe I can help you not waste your time and money on this one. LD’s older books are better. Instead of this, try something like Obsidian, His Purrfect Mate, Lorn, or Burning Up Flint. Go back to her Riding the Raines books. They are gold.