Beyond The Plot

Summary:

We Follow Ellison and her friends as they are dropped into the first season of Mated & Afraid.

Were they drunk when they filled out their applications?…. 100%. Did they expect to be picked and carted off the same day? Absolutely not. But here we are. On a uninhabited moon, with a muscle bound dragon-man, who just triggered a heat cycle within her. Fantastic. And they can’t even communicate with one another.

Good news is Ellison is competitive and will do what she has to win. Not so good news… well the uninhabited moon turns out to be a very uh inhabited space station… will an evil AI?

Review –

I like the premise and am excited for the rest of series, but I felt like was missing something. 

I can’t quite put my finger on it but I needed a bit more. 

Maybe just more story. I do love a hefty book and this is 244 pages so we get to see the story develop more when we hit the other POVs.  

I can’t wait for the next few books. I’m particularly interested in Selenes book. Who is she? Why does she know so much about the Draegon home planet? And she’s paired with the Prince, an assassin… interesting. What’s his deal?

“Spoilers, Spoilers” – River Song

*The following is an open discussion about the book. Details will be discussed here and in the comments. If that’s not for you, this is where we part.

Okay, let’s get into it.

It did take me a few chapter to get used to the authors writing style but then I was in it. I also realized I have another of her books Wed to the Alien Warrior by January Bell, which I’m assuming is a precursor to this book. Based off the conversations with the side characters and the overview of that book. I’m excited to get started on next. I want to see the world we are building here. 

I’m thinking, maybe, that’s why I felt like I was missing information. I felt like something was missing here, like I needed more exploration of Ken or more background on Rex. 

But it is a shorter book, it reminds me of Risda-Verse (Ruby Dixon) where the romance is more important than the other goings on. So, perhaps, that’s just the writing style here too. I’ll see once I get started on the Sister series. 

I was also hoping for a bit more game elements but realize this is more of a ‘game show gone wrong’ series than an actual game show so I just need to get over that want. Rotfl. I still wish we got a few more of those game show elements before the Evil AI popped in.

Speaking of…I have so many questions about Ken. He doesn’t seem as, “evil overlord, as I thought he’d be. So I wonder how she is going to continue to write him. He’s giving sad boy that wants friends more than anything. Like a toddler that doesn’t know its own strengths, but douchy- er. I mean he does start off wild, but quickly backed down and reoriented his wants. So I wonder what happened on that station. What happened to the people that were there.

But overall, why in the world would they choose to have this show on a “haunted” space station. What were they thinking? It seems like the myth of the Rogue AI is a very common story. Did they not research the station? And why tell them they are planet side/ moon side if they are actually in a space station?

Also what is going on with Draegon world? Maybe that’s information from another series. 

You know what’s funny, I just sketched out an outline for a Survivor/Amazing race style story as a sister series/standalone for a book series I’m working on. Which is what drew me here. I literally was just about to ask for recs that fall along those lines so I could do some research, but my kindle came through with this rec. Perfect timing. If you guys have any recommendations, that fall along these lines, let me know.