Vivian is a cultural specialist on the United Earth fleet ship Gorison Traveler. It’s the perfect job for someone who wants to learn everything about aliens. The only problem? The commander won’t let her anywhere near the visiting Ke’ters aboard the ship. The only way she gets a peek at the lizard-like race is when her brother opens a live camera feed during a meeting—a meeting that turns tragic … turns tragic when the Ke’ters attack the crew.
She’s horrified. Scared. The Ke’ters are murdering her people. Rushing from her quarters to get help from a control center, Vivian finds the station abandoned. It’s all on her to try to rescue the crew.
Brassi is a Veslor trader who picks up a distress signal from a nearby space vessel. The attractive female who contacts him looks terrified, and needs his help. He’ll board the Gorison Travelerwith his crewmates, and fight the Ke’ters, but the longer he spends on the huge Earth vessel, the greater distraction Vivian becomes. Brassi will do whatever it takes to save her…and to discover if Vivian’s his mate.
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The Gorison Traveler Incident started off with a bang, hooked me from the start and kept me turning pages until I finished it. Vivian is an alien cultural specialist aboard the Gorison Traveler. When the Ke’ters, visiting aliens, begin attacking the crew, she defies orders and places the ship in lockdown, then risks inviting other aliens, the Veslors, aboard the vessel to take care of the problem. THEN she has to face her commanding officer. The Gorison Traveler Incident is a fast, creative story with a scrappy heroine and a protective hero. I had a great time reading this book.
A fun, hot science fiction romance. I was pretty entertained and enthralled by the Veslors. Looking forward to the next book!
Laurann Dohner is the one who started my SFR addiction, with her Zorn Warriors series, and The Gorison Traveler Incident is a prime example of what a great book in the genre should be like.
I loved the worldbuilding. It’s believable and well-rounded. With plenty of political intricacies, so inherent to humankind.
I loved Vivian. She is a strong heroine, smart and resourceful. Kudos to a woman saving the day. Brassi is one hot shifter alien, and a nice guy, who lives by a code of honor. You gotta love the knight in shining armor :D. Their romance is progressing in a believable manner, a rare thing as far as the fated mates’ twist goes.
Can’t wait to read the next book in the series and find out more about the Veslor Race. I hope we’ll visit their home planet too, for I’m a sucker for planetary romances.
Love the start of this new series by Laurann. I can’t wait to see the next mated pair.
I loved this book so much! Learning about the species of the hero was so interesting. I can hardly wait for his crew mates to get their own book. Brassi is an honorable male and I love his reactions to his human female. Besides the love story, I really enjoyed the initial plot and the heroine’s taking charge in getting help to her ship. The characters are described in detail that allowed me to fully visualize them. This is now on my Keeper list!
Loved it! Really….anything from Laurann is fantastic and unique.
The Gorison Traveler Incident starts out with Vivian trying to save everyone on the Gorison Traveler and we are left with mostly her for a while before Brassi and his men show up to save the day. From there the story progresses mostly from the view point of Vivian and what happens on the Gorison Traveker with a few smippet from Brassi’s perspective which made to story seem a bit unbalanced but not enough to make me want to put the story down and find something else to read.
I did read The Gorison Traveler Incident twice because I felt like I had moved or rushed through it so fast that I might have missed something but I missed nothing and was just as glued to the story line as I was in the first round of reading the story. It took me a moment to realize why this was until I realized it was because there were practically no edits in this story making it a very well written story with some great attention to detail.
This review posting contains the body of the review, which is only a portion of the original review which was originally posted here https://lauralusbookreviews.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-gorison-traveler-incident-veslor.html
Vivian is a civilian working in cultural relations on one of the United Earth space ships. When a group of Alien visitors start trouble, how can she possibly help.
Brassi is a trader from a race of Shifters called Veslors. He and his crew automatically answer a distress call.
This is a sexy, action packed Sci-Fi romance, and the first in the series.
Our author certainly knows how to catch our interest from the first to last page.
Great fun.
This book was real fun! Over the top sometimes, sure, but I didn’t mind. The characters were likable and all of them were able to save the day with their own set of skills (rather than having the guys do all the savings while the women wait on the sidelines). The main couple was cute and their particular situation added an enjoyable level of steam to their relationship.
I’d love to read more about the rest of the guys (and girls) mentioned here in other stories and see them having their own happily ever after.
Great story, I didn’t want to put it down.
Having a little faith
This book begins with a tragedy that most would not be able to overcome, but the author created this tiny, fragile, human character who is so much stronger than she ever thought. Well two strong females, but Abby’s book is for another time. I love that this book is all about taking that leap of faith and the wonderful things you find on the other side of it. This author does hot alpha males so well and I enjoyed getting to know this species. I couldn’t put the book down until I reached the HEA and now I can only hope that we will eventually get books for all of the characters in this grouping. But no matter who gets their book next I can’t wait to read it.
Sometimes people grow up and grow apart. It hurts. Regrets arise. You yearn for the books gone by, but the magic is gone.
At some point around Laurann Dohner’s half-hearted treatment of the remaining New Species books and her new series: VLG and The Vorge, I stopped wanting to pick up what she is putting down. I am plain old bored. Also, the naming conventions of her characters have hit critical mass in my experience, and I can’t keep moving forward.
BUT LIKE A ZOMBIE I KEEP GOING! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!?
LD has a plot template that doesn’t deviate from each new book to the next. The wounded and the betrayed heroine is living a ‘going nowhere’ existence under the thumb of some a-hole superior. Past relationships and/or marriages destroyed by unfaithfulness and/or manipulation, leaving her characters jaded and burned. Trust issues abound; she doesn’t believe there is a ‘good guy’ out there that could love her until she meets her Alpha-Male-Manimal/Alien whose instincts demand he ‘claims’ the damaged heroine. The woman ‘doesn’t usually sleep with someone so soon after meeting’ the male, but she ‘has feelings’ for her new protector.
Just when there is a silver lining to the main character’s struggling love affair, a threat arises in the form of a yokel, degenerate (always named some stereotypical backwoods name: Carl, Bob, Buck, Jerry) develops and a threat of abuse and sexual assault. Our hero saves the day by claiming his woman, or the heroine saves the day by sacrificing herself for what-ever-species kind is being threatened, so our hero has more reason to claim and save her.
Wait, there are more story potholes and reruns.
Character naming conventions: LD loves naming her heroine’s names that end in vowels. Ellie, Jessie, Jeanie, Eve, Jasmine, Jadee, Charlie, Venice, Trisha, Becca, Dana, Emma, Sara, Mika, Mira, Charma, Glenda, Batina, Kira, Shanna, Nala, Nara, Brenda, Rena, Trina, Beauty, Tammy, Zandy, Casey, Lacey, Mandy, Lilly, Vanni, Dusti, Brandi, Candi, Gerri, Mari. But wait because in this new book she branches out to dot her I’s and her hero is Brassi with his brother Vassi. It’s not just systematic, it’s now pathological.
The Gorison Traveler Incident, while remaining a Sci-fi Erotica, exercises a sub-plot device that LD started introducing in her VLG books. The heat and fiery sex that was the bread and butter of her New Species and Mate Set books is diluted to what amounts to a somewhat awkward groping and truncated coupling. What is replacing the compelling sexiness is this convoluted political world-building. In the VLG series, this takes place in Lavos, where our hero’s love story is bogged down by this heavy-handed handling of war between species.
With Gorison Traveler Incident, it is this side story about the corruption of Earth Military and Vivian’s subversive attempt to save the Gorison Traveler crew against the orders of the ‘abusive and sexually demeaning’ Commander Alderson. World-building is fantastic. However, more and more, this mechanic feels like filler in an otherwise uninspired romance novel that Laurann Dohner is struggling to produce. And when it feels like the author can’t connect with her characters, I’m not able to.
I wish I could say that I had faith that this series or future novels of other series had a chance of turning my head. It’s that I have a lack of confidence that the habits created over the last decade and some by LD could be overcome. Even when she has deviated into giving her main character a more original name, she has compromised the originality by giving another essential character a name that ends in A, E, I, O, U, or sometimes Y.
After thirty books of overly masculinized heroes and clothing compromised miniature humans having to wear sweats of their monster-sized males, this is getting ridiculous.
My gripe with the sweats lies in the fact that the term sweats is dated, and plot-wise redundant; finally move on to a more modern fashion of boxers for the sake of the characters! If he doesn’t wear underwear, then give her a freaking shirt and get her some leggings. There are human women everywhere in these series to share clothes with this far into the series.
And now we are in space where the miniature human women are being dressed in oversized uniforms of males. Why is it that an author who creates entire worlds can’t create one damn world where a female isn’t diminished by the wardrobe?
And despite all my ire, I one-clicked the second damned book because I feel some dumb brand loyalty for a sentimental reason to Laurann Dohner. After all, she was the first book memory I made when I moved to this city.
And if I needed to move somewhere to stop this compulsion, I may have to do it.
I read these new books, get mad about it, review it, get madder about it, feel frustrated at both the author and myself, and then go buy the next damn book. Does Amazon have a one-click intervention program?