Setting: Valdire
Genre sci-fi/erotica/romance
Cara was captured along with Abby, from the previous book in the series (Abducting Abby) and 2 other women. She is a hyperactive mechanic who enjoys taking things apart. Trelon is the brother of the high king of Valdire, the hero of Abducting Abby. Trelon recognizes Cara as his true mate, but spends his time chasing after her and trying to lock her up, because she delights in enraging him. They finally get together and there is sex, there’s trouble and there is sex, there is more trouble and more sex.
Although the basic plot – abduction by sexy alien and subsequent relationship – is okay, I found the details in the story irritating at best and downright infuriating. Cara is immature and flippant, and Trelon is sexist and borders on abusive. “He should have beat her ass” or “He was going to beat her ass” came up more than once. I suppose there are people out there who think control freaks are sexy, but I found it disturbing. Speaking of sex, those scenes were pretty well done as far as erotica goes, and not really raunchy.
The narration by David Brenin is well paced, though the male characters didn’t have very distinctive voices (though this was exacerbated by the number of males, all with alien names). Cara’s voice was recognizable due to speed of delivery.
Overall, if you enjoy slightly misogynistic erotica, this isn’t bad. I got it through the romance package. It’s unlikely I would have purchased it.