VanNyssa thought Alien Abductions were fiction. She discovered she was wrong when she woke one morning in a stranger’s bed, gold chains attached to certain…um-delicate parts of her body, on a planet ruled by a man now claiming to be her life-mate. Tar plans for her to be his quiet, un-assuming companion. Not! This earth-girl can never be called “easy.” This book contains adult themes and … contains adult themes and situations, it is intended for those 18 and up!
On the planet Zylar there are two suns…and three moons. A Zylan male doesn’t choose a mate, his body does. Women are traditionally submissive; but all Hell breaks loose when Tar, the ruler of Zylar…finds his mate on Earth.
Nyssa is not going to be anyone’s prisoner. She will fight, with everything she can to either escape this male-dominated planet, or somehow change the fate this sexist, alpha male alien has created for her. Even if she dies trying!
Zylan Captive is the first book in Ravyn Wilde’s SciFi/Fantasy series, Zylar’s Moons. This extremely HOT alien abduction romance is filled with snarky humor, lots of sex, and action-packed adventure. If you love sexy aliens, laugh aloud moments, and books bursting with action, suspense, and love—you’ll adore this!
Pick up Zylan Captive today and come play with something out of THIS world!
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And you thought women had it rough fighting for equal rights here on earth.
This is a fictional fast-paced, fun, and suspenseful alien romance that will have you laughing and “Oh No”‘ing and occasionally shaking your head and saying “Oh No he didn’t”
There were times I found myself battling with my inner gal over whether to snuggle up with Tar or bash some sense into him – the jury is still out but definitely leaning towards snuggling.
Absolutely LOVED the chemistry and the back and forth banter between Nyssa and Tar. Their characters and the supporting cast are wonderful and so easy to connect with.
The story goes from expected to no f’ing way in a few short pages! There is action and suspense and a whole “CHAIN” on unexpected events,
as well as the opening and plot for the next book – which I am very excited about
“I received an ARC at no cost from the author.”
I first read this about six years ago but back then I was under the mindset that it didn’t really matter if I left a review or not. Now the reason I felt this way is because I don’t pick books to read (or movies to watch for that matter) based on others reviews. I don’t even look at others reviews until after I’ve finished and before writing my own, I know weird right? So it never really occurred to me that others might only pick based on reviews, that’s weird to me so what can I say. So I’ve been rereading books in order to make sure they are fresh in my mind in order to leave a proper review. With that being said let’s get to the review shall we.
When I got this book back in May of 2012 I had just gotten my first Kindle and was picking up all the free books I could find everyday wanting to broaden my normal reading from just historical romance (so this one wasn’t that far off the path). I would like to note this book is no longer free as of this posting. ‘Zylan Captive’ is still in the romance genre with the adding of Sci-fi and eroticia. The first in what appears to only be a trilogy (I’m still hoping she might do a prequel that explains Zylan and its history a bit but who knows). There isn’t any real cliffhanger just hints at what’s to come in future books and you do get a HEA.
The planet of Zylan has two suns and three moons the later being the cause of their psychic abilities. The people are humanoid who also have the ability of shapeshifting. It is touched on briefly that many years ago there was civil unrest and fighting among the men due to the lack of woman. Because of this they created the “companion links,” chains that come from within the body and that are linked to their heart and soul to aid them in finding their soulmate whom they were then linked to for life. This link is so strong that if a mate was to die without there being any children the other would die soon after because the loss would be to great on their soul. Even with children left behind the one left to raise them (typically the woman from what I understand) needs constant support, help and healing to help them cope. There doesn’t seem to be any chance of finding “love” again. They also gained the ability to look outside of their planet to other worlds, galaxies and dimensions to find that soulmate. For times like this chains have to be made for that mate that once in their presence they will connect to them if they are truly that person’s life mate. This is also when it became a male dominated society. The men want to love, protect and make their mate happy, doesn’t sound all that bad until you hear how they maintain this. They “control” their mate with the “links” through what else sex, mind blowing sex, but sex. I mean how else would men think is best to control woman? The women of Zylan except this without question, it’s been this way for centuries and it ended the fighting and war. Besides the men are the main controllers of the links, right?
Tar, the ruler of Zylan, has been searching for his life mate for three years and he has finally found her on Earth. After showing up in her room and placing the “companion links” (chains) on her body, his come out and hers are accepted by her body, he takes her back to Zylan. Yes he just kidnapped her right out of her room and while she was asleep. Now granted he did go to the trouble to make sure she wasn’t going to be missed. Of course he’s an alpha male and confident that “taming” her will be no problem. Even though the High Priest Mica, and one of his oldest friends, has warned him that Earth women are difficult to tame. So much so that Earth is the last planet they look at for lifemates. Tar is confident she will see things his way and if not he’ll just use the links to tame her, ha.
VanNyssa, or just Nyssa (which in Zylan translates to ‘little cat’) has been working for the same company for thirteen years. She has neglected basically everything else in her life for this company and they have just fired her. Her parents passed a few years ago so she doesn’t have any family. Now she has been left with nothing and has to start over and doesn’t have a clue how she’s going to do that. Little does she know all those worries are going to be a thing of the past because she’s about to get a whole new problem in the form a big strong alien and whole new world where the water is purple and the grass is light blue, not to mention chains attached to private areas of her body and that’s just the start.
Now part of me wanted to have problems with this book, he’s kidnapped her to basically make her a sex slave. And even though it was all psychically done he does essentially rape her and I wondered why this didn’t bother me more. So I thought about it and it all comes down to the way the author, Ravyn, wrote it. This is a different world with a different thought process and way of doing just about everything. Everything here has a psychic link, from windows and doors opening with a thought to running the water, summoning food, traveling and getting dressed (or undressed). Luckily for Nyssa all she has to do is spend time on the planet under the influence of the three moons for her own psychic abilities to manifest. Now if Tar had taken the time to search her mind (which we know he can do, he did it to understand why she wanted/craved her cigarettes and even realize the damage they did to her body). He would have also realized what he was doing wasn’t going to work and that in her world it was wrong, but then were would the story be. Lucky for Nyssa, though unlucky for Tar, she begins to realize that she can sense what he is feeling and begins to wonder if she could use the links the same way he did, a little quid pro quo if you would. Now of course this is unheard of but that doesn’t mean it can’t work.
After she has been there for about a month there is a linking ceremony, basically their form of a wedding, a medieval wedding. This ceremony is one all life companions must due and it is done in front of the council and their mates. Vows are exchanged as well as the man showing his ability to use the links on his mate to pleasure her, again part of their culture. Nyssa isn’t to keen on the idea of having, as she puts it “a screaming orgasim” in front of a bunch of strangers. After which thanks to Tar thinking he still knows best and saying one thing while planning something else entirely Nyssa, thanks to the help of Tar’s sister Tala, goes on the run. This is where the story really picks up, though it’s over far to quickly I agree with another review this could have had much more potential in the story. Tar and Nyssa end up in a fight for their lives and a chance at actually finding love and the bond between them.
There is a lot of sex in this story, I personally would have like to see a bit more balance of the story to the sex ratio. Don’t get me wrong I love a great sex scene, I just like a balance to the story. The sex is hot and steamy and detailed, so if this is a problem for you, you might want to skip this book. Though as one review mentioned you could skim through those scenes, though I don’t get the point of even reading the book at that point. I felt that the adding of the companion links was new and very interesting idea. Some reviewers complained about the use of different words for time and days ie. nons, bi-nons, nilts (week, day, hour). This wasn’t really an issue once I knew what each one stood for. After watching ‘Farscape’ this just seems normal to the Sci-fi world I almost expected it, it adds to the world development.