Laurann Dohner, Slade

Title: Slade

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Five Siren Stones

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Keywords: New Species Series

Length: Plus-Size Novel

ISBN E-Book: 978-1419935831

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

Buy-Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9521-slade.aspx

Reviewer: Cia

Blurb/Summary:

Book 2 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.

Dr. Trisha Norbit is flat on her back in a hospital bed, pinned under a really big New Species male. Though drugged out of his mind, he promises her ecstasy and is determined to deliver—but hospital staff intervenes. 215 is a man Trisha will never forget. But, when she meets him again at Homeland…he doesn’t even remember her!

The nosy new doctor wants to know all about the breeding habits between humans and Species. Slade proposes a hands-on education but she’s not interested in a one-night stand. He can’t offer more because he’s haunted by the memory of a woman he once tried to claim. He’s shocked when he realizes they are one and the same. He’s blown it—she’ll never give him a chance now.

But, when her life is in danger, he’s the only one who can save her. As they flee through the wilderness, their desire ignites and cannot be denied. Hot sex, on the run, has consequences that are even more dangerous and will change their lives forever.

Reader Advisory: There is a scene of an attempted rape.

Review:

Slade Book Two of New Species by Laurann Dohner led me back into the world New Species. Slade is one drop dead sexy man who only has eyes for the good Doctor. Once they realized they knew each other, I waited to see what rekindling would happen. Slade and Trisha have an explosive attraction that will singe the eyes. Yet I couldn’t stop reading or seeing the bestial side of Slade when in protection mode.

I found his other way of protecting adorable. Only men think distancing themselves is a way to offer better protection. Dr. Tricia is stronger than anyone gives her credit. Circumstances lead her into danger and she must wait to be saved. Courage and quick wits give her leverage. Her fears made me fear for her and I felt our hero’s pain at not being close at hand. I was thrilled when the situation changed for the better. I enjoyed reading of the entire species and not just the NSO, Laurann Dohner gives us a detailed view of the species she’s created. The rest of this story is heartfelt and I’m not one for spoilers. This is a must read story.

Laurann Dohner, Fury

Title: Fury

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Siren's Best Book Stone

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Keywords: New Species Series

Length: Super-Plus Size Novel

ISBN E-Book: 978-1419935954

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

Buy-Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9480-fury.aspx

Reviewer: Cia

Blurb/Summary:

Book 1 in the New Species series.

Ellie is horrified to discover the pharmaceutical company she works for is doing illegal experiments. Company scientists have spliced human and animal DNA, creating exotic new species. One such “experiment” captures her heart and she’ll do anything to save him—even if he hates her for it.

Fury has never known compassion or love. He’s spent his life in a cell, chained and abused by humans. The one woman he allowed himself to trust betrayed him. Now he’s free and set on vengeance. He vows to end her life but when she’s finally in his grasp, harming her is the last thing he wants to do to the sexy little human.

Fury can’t resist Ellie—the touch of her hands, her mouth on his skin, her body wrapped around his. He’s obsessed with the scent of his woman. And Ellie wants Fury—always has. She craves his big, powerful body and wants to heal his desolate heart.

But loving Fury is one thing…taming him is another.

Reader Advisory: This story contains the heartrending aftermath of a rape scene involving a captive male. Another scene involves capture and forced touching by a hurt, vengeful Fury.

Review:

New Species: Fury by Laurann Dohner took me into the lives of a brand new mixed breed of men and women. Laurann Dohner laid the ground work splendidly with this first read. I was introduced to a fierce woman Ellie, a human who at great cost to herself committed both a heart wrenching crime and at the same time saved the life of someone she grew to care for.

Her fierce spirit and sassy ways fit perfectly with Fury. Their path was filled with obstacles at every turn and kept me on edge waiting to see what would happen after turning the page. The intimacy blew me away. Primal and loving at the same time it had me sighing in pleasure. As the plot thickened and a conspiracy popped up, I prayed they’d find a way to survive the hatred surrounding them. I immensely enjoyed the female species and all of the secondary characters and their interaction with this explosive couple. I can’t wait for the next in this series and hope to be able to read it soon. Fury is a must read.

Laurann Dohner, Stealing Coal

Title: Stealing Coal

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Five Siren Stones

Genre: Science Fiction

Sub-Genre: Romance

Keywords: Cyborg

Length: Novel

ISBN E-Book: 978-1419933240

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

Buy-Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9174-stealing-coal.aspx

Reviewer: Cia

Blurb/Summary:

Jill has learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted and sex only causes pain. In the lawlessness of space, women are a sexual commodity—to be used and abused. She’s doing a man’s job, with only her father’s brutal reputation and three androids to help keep her alive when she sees a massive, handsome cyborg chained to a freight table. The abusive crew plans to sell him to fight in gruesome death matches. It’s stupid, it’s insane, but Jill can’t leave him to such a horrible fate.

Coal has survived being a captive breeding slave and irreversible damage to his cyborg implants, but his honor is still intact. He’s grateful Jill saved him and he’ll repay her the only way he can. He’ll fix her—with his mouth, his hands and his body. He can teach the little human just how much pleasure she’s capable of feeling.

Review:

Stealing Coal by Laurann Dohner took me on a sci-fi adventure. I’m new to the science fiction genre of romance and am very glad I chose to read this story. From the world build to the characters, I was a goner.

I enjoyed Jill’s vibrancy and her strength and felt bad for the raw deal she’d been given in life. I couldn’t imagine being alone in the universe with no one to talk to besides trusted artificial beings. That being said the artificial beings amazed me, so life like, even in their ability to process and make their own decisions I adored them.

Jill is a beautiful heroine, knowing Coal was in eminent danger; she broke the law and listened to her integrity to give him freedom.

Coal intrigued me. After so many years of abuse, and of others using him, manipulating situations to gain what they wanted of him, I wanted to cry. I was amazed it didn’t break him down but instead his anger fuelled him on. Not one to wallow, he delivered his own verbal messages.

He and his kind were priceless. Oh when he gained control, I sat back to see just what he could do. His tenderness and his decision to pleasure Jill, come hell or high water, made me giggle. It was apparent she couldn’t formulate a way to dissuade him from his goal and I’m glad she didn’t. From there the story erupted into kick ass fast paced action. Passion. Action. Hot man. Equally hot woman. Hot robots. What more can a reader ask for? Oh, death and dismemberment of all assholes perhaps? This story was a great read and one I won’t mind reading again.

Laurann Dohner, Raine On Me

Title: Raine on Me

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Siren's Best Book Stone

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Keywords: Riding the Raines Series

Length: Novel

ISBN E-Book: 978-1419932571

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

Buy-Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9068-raine-on-me.aspx

Reviewer: Cia

Blurb/Summary:

Book two in the Riding the Raines series.

Brit wants to get on with her life and leave her rough past far behind. Most of the cowboys who end up in her care are cranky old ex-rodeo stars. But not the new guy. He’s a tall, mouthwatering hunk with the hottest body she’s ever seen. And she can see it all, since not one inch of that incredible flesh is hidden from her gaze. The blunt, crude man shocks Brit a bit when he flat-out tries to get her into his bed…immediately.

Brit is the sexiest woman River has ever come across. Every time he thinks he’s starting to tame her, she tries to bolt from his life. He’s a man who always gets what he wants and the more time he spends with the mouthy, stubborn woman, the more convinced he becomes that he can never give her up. Good thing for him he’s not above chaining a woman to his bed if that’s what it takes to keep her right where he wants her—under him.

Review:

From the first page in Rain On Me by Laura Dohner I was hooked. River has no qualms with who he is and the type of help he needs. I found the beginning comical and very sexy with the sparks already flying between Brit the heroine and River the Hero. And then she had to end up in his testosterone filled home. Did I mention there are brothers who are just as sexy as our hero?

Brit is a great heroine who wants to stand on her own and maintain her independence. River’s nickname for her really had me in titters every time he addressed her by it.

Trouble lurked for our gorgeous heroine and who better to protect her than the Raine Brood. The erupting violence kept me turning the pages, as much as the heroine who continued to run instead of standing still. I hoped she’d allow herself to be loved and that the never settling down River would find the special gem she was and well worth the price of bachelorhood and debauchery the brothers were often rightly accused of. Through it all it was wonderful to see so many family dynamics and real life occurrences.

I’ll definitely be waiting for the next in the series to release. I really enjoyed Raine On Me and can’t wait to tell my friends to go and buy it.

Laurann Dohner, Berrr's Vow

Title: Berrr’s Vow

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Five Siren Stones

Genre: Science Fiction

Sub-Genre: Romance

Keywords: Sex Slave, Alien

Length: Plus-Size Novel

ISBN E-Book: 978-1419929205

Price: $6.99

ISBN for Print:

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

Buy-Link: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8761-berrrs-vow.aspx

Reviewer: Mona

Blurb/Summary:

Book four in the Zorn Warriors series.

Kidnapped from Earth and transported to planet Zorn to be sold as a sex slave, Shanna is one angry, frightened woman ready to fight anyone who tries to touch her. Raised in foster care, she’s not going to take any crap off some alien men no matter how big, terrifying or muscular they are. Before she can be sold, she’s freed by a huge, sexy Zorn warrior…a warrior with the most beautiful blue eyes she’s ever seen. Shanna demands he take her under his protection when she realizes she’s stuck on Zorn.

Hyvin Berrr, the leader of Zorn, thinks humans are helpless and weak. Shanna decides to teach the big hunk he’s wrong by knocking him on his backside. He might think she’s playing but she’s trying to teach him a lesson. She’s not sure if she wants to fight her feelings for the sexy alien, though if a woman has to lose a battle, this just might be the one time to concede.

Review:

Who would have thought that being an alien sex slave could be so much fun! In Berrr's Vow I found an exciting, action packed romance waiting to happen! Don't tell human women we are weak, as Shanna proves to her protector.

I enjoyed the sassy humorous comebacks this pint sized heroine has! She has an attitude that gets her into hot water at times, but what a way to get wet! A well written tale that will have me looking for the rest of the Zorn Warrior Series!

Laurann Dohner, Propositioning Mr. Raine

Title: Propositioning Mr. Raine

Author: Laurann Dohner

Rating: Five Siren Stones

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Length: Novel

ISBN E-Book: 9781419928710

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

BUY-LINK: http://www.jasminejade.com/ps-8451-50-propositioning-mr-raine.aspx

Reviewer: By Yvette Lowe

Summary:

Book one in the Riding the Raines Series

Trina Mattews lost her husband of sixteen years to a tragic accident. Starting her life over in the small town of Hailey, Texas, at the age of thirty-eight sounded like a good idea but she never counted on the loneliness she’d experience.

Navarro Raine is the hottest man she’s ever seen. He’s tall, with piercing blue eyes and Native American beauty. He fills her nighttime fantasies and makes her wonder about all the things she’s yet to experience in bed. And Navarro has a reputation for being very good in that department…

Discovering he’s about to lose his family ranch, Trina has the perfect solution for both of them. She’s willing to offer Navarro the money to save his ranch if he’ll give her the kind of sex she’s only read about. It might be the craziest thing she’s ever done but after years of vanilla sex, she’s made up her mind—it’s time to taste a few more flavors.

Review:

Trina really thinks she has lost her mind.

She is so lonely that she is actually coming up with this plan to help Navarro and herself at the same time. Trina loved her dead husband, but everything they did was so vanilla and she is over vanilla, she wants to experiment things she has never done.

And who better to help her than Navarro?

What she doesn't count on, is falling in love with him so fast. But it could never work.

Navarro is sure he has misunderstood little Miss. Trina with her proposition, surely she doesn't want to pay him for sex? But with the intense feelings they have and trust issues to go along with it, can they find what is in their hearts?

This is a sensual love story of two people who must face everyday issues with a mix of other complications that we all face. You will love this story, and you will make it a reread from time to time.