Shadow Quest
Series:
Book 1:
Demon Possession:
Sebastian and Analia
Summary:
From goodreads.com
After being enslaved on the spaceship Extarga for most of
her life Analia has no memory of her life before, and has lost all knowledge of
her people. Her mysterious gift and pointed ears are the only indication that
she is different.
Analia is alone, and for all she knows, shes the last of her
kind. By chance Analia escapes her captors, and hides herself on the merchant
ship Marada, planning to get off at the very next stop.
Unfortunately for her, there is no next stop. The crew is
planning a delivery that could take months, and according to a stipulation in
the newly signed contract, no one is allowed on or off the ship until the
package is delivered.
When Analia is found by a handsome demon, and captain of the
Marada, she must adapt to her new role on the ship, and try to control her
newly awakened desire for the brutal, and devastatingly erotic demon.
**Again sorry for all of the generic, summaries. I swear I
am trying to get caught up at least on my reviews. On my reading I am hopelessly
behind. I am just trying to save time
where I can, I do apologize.
Review:
*Disclaimer, again with my hopelessly behind, but I read
this book about a month ago and 13 stories ago so some of the details are fuzzy
or completely gone from my memory.
I found this book when I was doing one of my free Kindle
eBook posts and was immediately intrigued, which actually surprising as, I have
never been one for Sci-Fi and space travel, but I am one for sexy demons and
mysterious gifts. So even though I knew that I had other books that I should
have been reading I skipped those in favor of this one and I was not
disappointed. I was immediately pulled in with Analia daring escape from the
ship she was enslaved on (She had a name she called it but damn I can’t remember
it) and her alluding to her dark gift with tantalizing glimpses but no big
reveals. We do know she holds a lot of power that her master will do anything
to keep her in his grasp. Analia is near deaths door when she escapes to the
merchant ship, which makes her either really desperate or really brave or as it
turns out a combination of them both.
Anya as her pet name becomes grows tremendously as the book develops as
you could imagine as a slave when we first meet her she is timid but does still
have a bit of a backbone as her escape suggests, but by the end of the book she
is a sword welding warrior women who will do anything to protect those she
loves. What I also really loved about
Anya is she just has this warm, sunny personality, she just isn’t meant to
wallow in doom and gloom for long. I like my male characters broody not
necessarily my heroines, sometimes the sunny can be too much but Anya was just
the right amount of untrusting/optimistic ratio. The tension between Sebastian
and Anya is explosive as it builds. They are on a ship they can’t avoid each
other for long and each time is more explosive then the next.
Sebastian, trusts no one, he learned that the hard way. Only his brother, sister and another demon
are even allowed to his inner most thoughts. They were betrayed by those they
loved the most and barely escaped with their lives. For over a thousand years
they have been trading through space and never has anyone rattled Sebastian
like Anya. Even as he is doing everything in his power to stay away, he is
finding reasons to be near her and protect her. He knows that someone is going
to be coming after her so he decides to give her everything at his disposal to
make sure she can take care of herself when she is no longer on the ship. As
the days and weeks pass his frustrations build as his desires for Anya increase
and his determination to stay away from her starts to crumble. When he realizes she might be “His” it may
already be too late, as danger is right on her tail.
Overall, it was a steamy, erotic, fun tale that I highly
enjoyed. It was intriguing and new, at least to me seeing as I don’t read much
Sci-Fi so I guess this could be a stale concept, but I guess this is a
testament to the crossover appeal to the Paranormal Romance lover. There were
quite a few editing issues. I do remember that and had made note of it in my
progress notes on goodreads, I usually don’t even notice editing issues so they
must have been pretty numerous and noticeable.
So, if this is one of your pet peeves this may be an issue for you, but
for me, eh I can live with it if the story is enjoyable enough and this one
was. I am planning on continuing this series, I already have book 2 downloaded,
I just have to fit it into my schedule somewhere. :-/
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