A handsome blond stranger shows up at Kimi Wicker’s place of work claiming to be her mate. But he also claims to be from another world. She does what any sane woman would do in her situation. She runs. Tagging along are her two best friends and a feisty tabby cat. No one could anticipate the second stranger showing up, one with a completely different agenda.Kimi and her friends are abducted by … abducted by the second man, a vampire, then tortured and abandoned on a hostile alien world. Given only the clothes on their back, they must now try to find a way back home again.
One man will do everything in his power to see Kimi and her friends are brought safely back home, even sacrifice his own life. The second man wants Kimi and her mate to suffer, alive, but forever out of reach of each other. Kimi and her friends must work together against astronomical odds for any hope of surviving this nightmare.
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Soul of a Warrior by Denna Holm is a wonderful story that I have read. This is book number one in this wonderful start to a brand new series that I have fallen in love reading and can not wait to read more from this series. I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about Sci-Fi and paranormal romances.
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This is a great sci-fi romance! I really liked it… It is full of romance and adventure, suspense and mystery..
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This is a very action-packed book right from the start. A vampire and werewolf show up at the bar where Kimberly works to grab her since she is the unexpected mate of a powerful vampire, Neyvarre. No one expected to end up on another planet, fighting for their lives as Kimberly, Amanda, their friend Keith, and a cat are kidnapped.
The world-building is well done and makes the locales easy for the reader to imagine. The characters are well-portrayed and interesting. I found the book sort of overwhelming, however, and not what I had been expecting.
A human woman’s journey to an alien world becomes dangerous for her friends and her but her mate is there to save her. I voluntarily received this book for an honest review.
The writing and editing was clean in the ARC version of the manuscript, with no typos that I found and pretty sentences. The world building was excellent, with the world Lavina coming to vivid life. The characterization was competent, if a little flat. The heroine was sympathetic, though the romantic hero was a bit of a cipher. The development of the romantic relationship was terrible, with the hero and heroine spending at least 60% – 70% of this novel separated. There was no watching these two fall in love, because they were literally on separate worlds for the majority of this novel. The plot and pacing was okay, but as a romance reader, I was mostly impatiently reading it to get to the parts where the hero and heroine were on the page together interacting. There was medium-high angst on the heroine’s part, with her being suicidal and feeling very sorry for herself after she is forcibly converted into a vampire. That part was a bit of a trial for me to get through, even though her feelings were understandable. The stakes were very high throughout this novel, which helped the pacing somewhat even though the hero and heroine spend almost the whole novel apart. This novel also had no on page sexy times between the romantic couple, which I felt vaguely cheated by as a romance reader. This novel was a good long length, so at least that was a plus? Many self published sci-fi romances are far too short, in my opinion. This novel used the Fated Mates trope common to paranormal and speculative fiction romance. It also had a whiff of Enemies to Lovers. The world building was four stars. The plot was three stars. The pacing was three stars. The characterization was two stars and the development of the romantic relationship was one star. As a science fantasy novel this book would be three to four stars. As a science fantasy romance novel this book is one star, due to the egregious error of the romantic protagonists being separated for the majority of the novel. I split the difference and gave this book a combined score of two stars. This novel ends on a Happy Ever After ending instead of a cliffhanger, so that is a plus. I recommend this novel to readers of science fantasy, but I do not recommend it to readers of speculative fiction romance. I do not particularly want to read the next book in this series, even though I have loved this author’s Raiden Warriors sci-fi romance series. I will not buy myself a keeper copy of this novel.
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