“Ms. Wolfe, you’re the only woman who’s ever requested the arena.”Sylvie Wolfe made a bad decision, for a good reason. Now, sentenced to death for her crime, she has only one decision left to make—the method of her execution. Most people pick lethal injection.Sylvie demands death by combat. Her choice gets her sent to the prison planet Rhodon, where in zone one, the galaxy’s most dangerous … the galaxy’s most dangerous convicted murderers fight to the death on camera in a gladiatorial-style competition that will end with one inmate being declared the champion. And having his—or her—death sentence commuted to life in prison.
Graham Anderson thinks he’s lost his mind when he sees a woman in zone one. He pulls Sylvie into his cell just before lockdown, temporarily shielding her from a throng of monsters intent on laying claim to her. By the time the doors unlock at dawn, he’s made nearly a hundred vicious new enemies and lost his heart to the fiercest, sexiest, most determined woman he’s ever met.
With death looming in the arena and foes aligning against them behind the scenes, Sylvie and Graham must fight for every moment they share. But in the end, there can be only one champion. Which means only one of them can leave the arena alive…
Champion is an 86,000 word novel containing dark and violent scenes that might be disturbing to some readers.
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WHAAAA? Why isn’t everyone reading Emmy Chandler?
GO READ EMMY CHANDLER! She’s free through KU. She writes steamy prison planet books. They’re dark and gritty but also AWESOME.
Do you like the idea of a badass boxer chick getting sent away to a prison planet full of dangerous men? How about if she put them in a gladiator style event where the winner goes free? How about if the MMC and her lover…is a dude she’s going to have to fight to win not just her freedom, but her life?
These books DO get mildly repetitive when you do what I did and read all of them in a 72 hour period. So pace yourself. It’s not a race. I loved the worldbuilding. I loved the action. I can’t say the romance really stole the show, but I honestly didn’t care.
These books are sexy–even if every single man other than the MMC is universally portrayed as a filthy rabid rapist, which also got kind of old, but the stakes are there, the action is incredible. This one was probably my favorite…no wait, there’s the one where the dude is nonverbal. Like he doesn’t talk at all. The chick is the brains. She tells him what to do, he follows her around mute, muscles stuff around, takes orders and gives orgasms. That one’s the shit.
There’s also the one where they’re set loose in the woods and rich people chase them down to kill them and she’s like a tech-savvy badass chick with all the gadgets, and he’s just muscle. I liked that one too. And Guardian. They’re all worth taking a stab at.
Emmy’s awesome. Keep writing Emmy! I <3 you!
So this is the third book in the series and this time around it’s Graham’s turn.
You may remember him from the previous book when he was recaptured while attempting to escape zone 2 with Callum and Maci.
Graham after the previous events was placed in zone 1 as a fighter in the arena.
Sylvie wolfes science teacher and murderer chooses death by combat on the prison planet Rhodon rather than lethal injection.
Thrown into the bullpen the only woman among many men it’s kill or be killed.
Graham in a spur of the moment decision leaps to her defence placing himself in the crosshairs and the two form a tight bond that because of there current precarious position is amplified tenfold.
This is a gladiator type storyline: a fight to the death scenario where the seasons reigning champion will be released at the end into the general prison population.
This bloody sport is then televised to the masses as entertainment making the powers that be a shedload in cash.
This to date I believe was the most violent of these books: it was no holds barred barbarous violence and the bullpen really seemed to hold the most vicious of this planets low-lives.
I really was on the edge of my seat throughout this biting my nails with such worry.
I loved that Sylvie was a strong take no messing female and also that Graham had such a protective vibe.
This introduces new characters into the ongoing narrative and I am looking forward to reading Sylvie’s brother Sebastion and Kaya the sponsor liaisons story that one should be interesting.
This wasn’t my favourite of the three books I have read so far but I still enjoyed it and I do like that each book seems to have a slightly different flavour.
This one gets a thumbs up from me.
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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