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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
Special Forces Space Marine Lara Treynor has been tasked to steal three sacred gems from the Eon. She knows it's a bad idea but she has to protect her sisters and the planet. What she doesn’t expect is the Eon warrior sent to stop her.
Lara was a dangerous woman who was determined to see her mission through. She was dedicated, hard working, and could kick some major ass. She has dedicated her life to taking care of everyone else so as you can imagine she holds a lot of her pain inside. Caze was the perfect partner for Lara because he let her fight her own battles but would still comfort and support her.
Caze is a protective alpha male who is used to everyone obeying him. He doesn’t know what to do with Lara at first. She constantly was challenging him and disobeying his orders. He needs a mate who will support him but also challenge him and Lara was that mate. These two were a kickass couple who did some major damage to the Kantos.
This book also gave us more information on the Kantos and what they are planning to do. This bug-like species is both fascinating and disgusting. I can always count on Hackett to create interesting alien enemies. This book was packed with action, romance, and lots of aliens. I cannot wait to read the next one.
This review was originally posted at Red-Haired Ash Reads.
Lara was a dangerous woman who was determined to see her mission through. She was dedicated, hard working, and could kick some major ass. She has dedicated her life to taking care of everyone else so as you can imagine she holds a lot of her pain inside. Caze was the perfect partner for Lara because he let her fight her own battles but would still comfort and support her.
Caze is a protective alpha male who is used to everyone obeying him. He doesn’t know what to do with Lara at first. She constantly was challenging him and disobeying his orders. He needs a mate who will support him but also challenge him and Lara was that mate. These two were a kickass couple who did some major damage to the Kantos.
This book also gave us more information on the Kantos and what they are planning to do. This bug-like species is both fascinating and disgusting. I can always count on Hackett to create interesting alien enemies. This book was packed with action, romance, and lots of aliens. I cannot wait to read the next one.
This review was originally posted at Red-Haired Ash Reads.
I didn't like this as much as I did book #1, I wanted more time spent on relationship building, but also my cat died while I was reading it so that might have been the reason I struggled a bit.
The next Traynor sister is on the scene and causing mayhem for these poor Alpha aliens!
Lara is a tough, battle-hardened Space Marine. She takes crap from no-one and can give as good as she gets. But her weak spots are her sisters, which Earth authorities are not above manipulating. Lara slips through Eon space stealing the Eon's sacred gems and leading Caze in a merry dance.
Caze is not used to feisty females leading him by the nose! He thought that dealing with Eve was bad enough but Lara pushes all his buttons. She is strong, determined and stubborn. When they grudgingly join forces to keep the Kantos from getting the jewels he also realises that her love for her sisters is deep. Almost as deep as the hurt she likes to lay on him, the female is not pulling her punches!
Sneaking aboard Kantos Ships, blood churning laboratories, very Lara Croft-esque raiding of temples - there is something to delight everyone! Lara thinks love ruins your life and Caze has never experienced any kind of softness so they are a bit of a pair.
Wren is next up and I cannot wait to see how this little mouse of a nerd has been leading a whole starship full of warriors around by the computer she holds!
Lara is a tough, battle-hardened Space Marine. She takes crap from no-one and can give as good as she gets. But her weak spots are her sisters, which Earth authorities are not above manipulating. Lara slips through Eon space stealing the Eon's sacred gems and leading Caze in a merry dance.
Caze is not used to feisty females leading him by the nose! He thought that dealing with Eve was bad enough but Lara pushes all his buttons. She is strong, determined and stubborn. When they grudgingly join forces to keep the Kantos from getting the jewels he also realises that her love for her sisters is deep. Almost as deep as the hurt she likes to lay on him, the female is not pulling her punches!
Sneaking aboard Kantos Ships, blood churning laboratories, very Lara Croft-esque raiding of temples - there is something to delight everyone! Lara thinks love ruins your life and Caze has never experienced any kind of softness so they are a bit of a pair.
Wren is next up and I cannot wait to see how this little mouse of a nerd has been leading a whole starship full of warriors around by the computer she holds!
What a fun engaging series this is! It’s fun to see the heroes work together and learn to work and love each other.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Too much repetition, too many plot holes and unnecessary deus-ex-machina rescues
*Review might contain some spoilers*
I was so looking forward to the second instalment of [a:Anna Hackett|2983829|Anna Hackett|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1434193648p2/2983829.jpg]’s Eon Warrior series and I really wanted to like it more, but it took me days to plow my way thru it.
One of my main problems was the sheer repetetiveness of it: all Lara and Caze seem to be doing is fight Kantos, get hurt, flee to a Eon healing station, get turned on by each others fighting prowess and mate like rabbits, rinse and repeat this cycle several times. Only each time the are fighting bugs there seem to be more and more of them, and not only in number, but also in kind: there are elites, there are grunts, there are slimy bugs, there are flying bugs, there are flesh-eating bugs (that hatch from eggs like a scene from Aliens) and there are giant spiders that completely cover you in their threads until you are mummified like poor Frodo.
Then there are the ever-expanding features of the helian, the symbiont Eon warriors are bonded with in their puberty: I can totally get behind the idea that a symbiont (parasite) protects and even heals its host, after all it’s dependent on the host for its survival. But not only can the symbiont be formed into armor and swords, no, it also takes the shape of blasters and ropes and even throwing stars (which begs the question how it deals with the loss of mass). It can also be commanded by the host’s mate and it not only can shape itself into a helmet, no, it also turns carbon dioxide into oxygen. But where it really lost me was how it continued to protect the mate of the host even after they were physically separated. I think what bothered me most was how the symbiont was used like a deus-ex-machina device: each time the hero/heroine got into a seemingly hopeless situation the symbiont developed/revealed some new ability which then saved them, which seems like a weak plot strategy.
Number three: very poor decision making displayed by heroine, hero and everybody else. First who thinks it’s a good idea to steal from and blackmail somebody whose help you are trying to gain? But okay, let’s say we let this pass as this is actually how earth governments often behave: they try to gain some leverage to force the other side into compliance… I also get that the Lara agrees to her mission in order to exonerate her sister, Eve, but what I absolutely don’t get is how she goes on believing her government after know what the Space Corps did to her sister and after being presented evidence that her government has been lying to her she chooses to disregard facts and just goes blindly on believing what she believes. If this sounds eerily familiar (like supporters of certain leader figures) then because it is and I have no patience with this kind of willful ignorance.
The other example has to do with the stolen gems. So let’s say your enemy has stolen three items from you that have the potential to be weaponized against you. You manage - more by dumb luck than actual skill – to recover to of the items. But instead of waiting to rendezvous with the rest of your force to secure the two recovered items you carry them with you when you make a very dangerous attempt to get the third one and your commander goes along with the plan, thus risking losing again the two that you have already recovered. How does this make any strategic sense?
All these things kept bothering me, so I was unable to enjoy or indeed appreciate the romance between Lara and Caze. Overall sadly rather disappointing, so 3 stars from me.
*Review might contain some spoilers*
I was so looking forward to the second instalment of [a:Anna Hackett|2983829|Anna Hackett|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1434193648p2/2983829.jpg]’s Eon Warrior series and I really wanted to like it more, but it took me days to plow my way thru it.
One of my main problems was the sheer repetetiveness of it: all Lara and Caze seem to be doing is fight Kantos, get hurt, flee to a Eon healing station, get turned on by each others fighting prowess and mate like rabbits, rinse and repeat this cycle several times. Only each time the are fighting bugs there seem to be more and more of them, and not only in number, but also in kind: there are elites, there are grunts, there are slimy bugs, there are flying bugs, there are flesh-eating bugs (that hatch from eggs like a scene from Aliens) and there are giant spiders that completely cover you in their threads until you are mummified like poor Frodo.
Then there are the ever-expanding features of the helian, the symbiont Eon warriors are bonded with in their puberty: I can totally get behind the idea that a symbiont (parasite) protects and even heals its host, after all it’s dependent on the host for its survival. But not only can the symbiont be formed into armor and swords, no, it also takes the shape of blasters and ropes and even throwing stars (which begs the question how it deals with the loss of mass). It can also be commanded by the host’s mate and it not only can shape itself into a helmet, no, it also turns carbon dioxide into oxygen. But where it really lost me was how it continued to protect the mate of the host even after they were physically separated. I think what bothered me most was how the symbiont was used like a deus-ex-machina device: each time the hero/heroine got into a seemingly hopeless situation the symbiont developed/revealed some new ability which then saved them, which seems like a weak plot strategy.
Number three: very poor decision making displayed by heroine, hero and everybody else. First who thinks it’s a good idea to steal from and blackmail somebody whose help you are trying to gain? But okay, let’s say we let this pass as this is actually how earth governments often behave: they try to gain some leverage to force the other side into compliance… I also get that the Lara agrees to her mission in order to exonerate her sister, Eve, but what I absolutely don’t get is how she goes on believing her government after know what the Space Corps did to her sister and after being presented evidence that her government has been lying to her she chooses to disregard facts and just goes blindly on believing what she believes. If this sounds eerily familiar (like supporters of certain leader figures) then because it is and I have no patience with this kind of willful ignorance.
The other example has to do with the stolen gems. So let’s say your enemy has stolen three items from you that have the potential to be weaponized against you. You manage - more by dumb luck than actual skill – to recover to of the items. But instead of waiting to rendezvous with the rest of your force to secure the two recovered items you carry them with you when you make a very dangerous attempt to get the third one and your commander goes along with the plan, thus risking losing again the two that you have already recovered. How does this make any strategic sense?
All these things kept bothering me, so I was unable to enjoy or indeed appreciate the romance between Lara and Caze. Overall sadly rather disappointing, so 3 stars from me.
*3.5* This took me awhile to finish and I seriously don't know why! I really liked this. The adventure aspect is fabulously done and there is so much heat coming off Lara and Caze you may need sunblock. Definitely an excellent sci-fi alien romance to check out.