I definitely didn't like it as much as the first book in Jessa Slade's Steel Born series. I wanted more... more precise descriptions, more details, more sexy scenes, more explicit scenes, more texture, more emotion... just more. It is an interesting world that she's building here, and I hope this...
He cursed himself, the l’auraly, the crystals, and other significant chunks of the universe, including the anonymous ship above. And his princess. The way she’d looked at him, devastated, the light gone from her citrine eyes. From the very first, she’d been willing to fight. Fight for her planet,...
It sounded no worse than a tumbler dropped in some distant kitchen, deserving nothing more than a half-hearted “Opa!” and a quick sweeping out. Then the percussive blast of etheric emanations hit the picture window. Nothing exploded, of course. Etheric emanations interacted only haphazardly with ...
Hopefully the same would be true for the raiders. If they noticed anything unusual… Well, with any luck, they wouldn’t look up. He switched channels as a message came in. Kylara stared at him from the screen, looking very much like her intense mother in the moment. Which made him frown back. “Wha...
Bad enough to read the impossibly tight confines on the nav controls, but to have the visuals glaring from the screens made her want to disconnect from her ocular implant. The rim of the canyon held sharpened teeth of stone where the edge had sheared away in places, but as they descended, the win...
Jonah vaulted from the boat to the pier railing at her first step away from him and hauled himself over with one wrench of his arm. Nothing compared to her leap, of course. Adding the teshuva’s strength to her own daredevil insanity, she flung herself up into the open layer of night between the f...
Cold concrete scraped against her palm. That jump would’ve been way cooler if she hadn’t landed in ankle-deep sludge and spattered it all over her jeans. “Yuck.” Liam executed a controlled slide down the rickety ladder she hadn’t been sure would hold even her weight much less his six-foot self. O...
How many layers of denim and leather—how much steel—would he need to put between them to forget her touch? Maybe the phae Queen could suck that desire out of him. The nasty thought made him frown, and Merrilee was echoing his fierce expression when ...