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whitneykelley's review
5.0
Top Tier Sci-Fi Romance
This is my first book by this author and I am completely in love. Absolutely fantastic characters, tangible sexual tension, amazing chemistry, with a great plot that kept me interested right up until the very end. I absolutely adored this book and am so excited to read more by this author.
This is my first book by this author and I am completely in love. Absolutely fantastic characters, tangible sexual tension, amazing chemistry, with a great plot that kept me interested right up until the very end. I absolutely adored this book and am so excited to read more by this author.
raven168's review
3.0
Apparently I had already read the second book in this series, and while it was okay, I never intended to read more of it. Color me surprised when I started this one and realized it was book one. Goes to show how much attention I actually pay to things. But in this case, it worked out. This book was much better than the second one and I actually enjoyed it.
Both Xendar and Hope were believable and solid characters and, as different as they were, they actually worked well as a couple. I was impatiently waiting for Hope to tell Xendar the truth and when it finally came I was pretty happy with how he took it.
Hope is just a normal human female...who happens to look exactly like a super important princess from another galaxy. She ends up getting abducted one night by a group of greys and sold to a haughty human. Only to be told that she needs to impersonate a missing princess who is supposed to marry an alien prince. One who just so happens to already be there. Given no choice, Hope is given an inadequate crash course on Empire politics and practically shoved out the door.
Xendar is the second prince of his people. He is not happy about this political marriage, but he will do it if it means peace between the two empires. What he sees when he arrives to pick up his princess does not give him much hope for his future happiness. But then Hope walks in and his breath is stolen. And his instincts already tell him something is off with his princess.
At first, Hope was terrified of Xendar. Dude is huge with spikes and a tail after all. It doesn't take long for her to find herself feeling more safe with him than she ever has before...and more attracted to him than she thought possible. Xendar makes it easy for her to fall for him. He does everything in his power to make sure that she is safe, protected, and happy. Which is such a contradiction to his harsh warrior personality. Which we get to see first hand a couple times when he has to slaughter their enemies. He goes above and beyond anything Hope ever could have asked for to make sure she survives, which only fuels her self hating for having been lying to him. When they're cornered after an attack, she finally has no choice.
This whole time Xendar has thought that the actions of his princess were a little off sometimes, but he just figured it was all do to her spoiled upbringing. When Hope tells him she's not really the princess he is filled with anger. But it quickly dissipates when he finds he can't just abandon Hope anymore. He's already fallen for her. So even when she knocks him out (in order to save him) he's hell bent on doing whatever it takes to save her. No matter how crazy or stupid.
I was pretty satisfied with the ending. From how Xendar saves Hope, to how the real princess deals with everything. The only thing was that the epilogue was unnecessary and way too corny.
Both Xendar and Hope were believable and solid characters and, as different as they were, they actually worked well as a couple. I was impatiently waiting for Hope to tell Xendar the truth and when it finally came I was pretty happy with how he took it.
Hope is just a normal human female...who happens to look exactly like a super important princess from another galaxy. She ends up getting abducted one night by a group of greys and sold to a haughty human. Only to be told that she needs to impersonate a missing princess who is supposed to marry an alien prince. One who just so happens to already be there. Given no choice, Hope is given an inadequate crash course on Empire politics and practically shoved out the door.
Xendar is the second prince of his people. He is not happy about this political marriage, but he will do it if it means peace between the two empires. What he sees when he arrives to pick up his princess does not give him much hope for his future happiness. But then Hope walks in and his breath is stolen. And his instincts already tell him something is off with his princess.
At first, Hope was terrified of Xendar. Dude is huge with spikes and a tail after all. It doesn't take long for her to find herself feeling more safe with him than she ever has before...and more attracted to him than she thought possible. Xendar makes it easy for her to fall for him. He does everything in his power to make sure that she is safe, protected, and happy. Which is such a contradiction to his harsh warrior personality. Which we get to see first hand a couple times when he has to slaughter their enemies. He goes above and beyond anything Hope ever could have asked for to make sure she survives, which only fuels her self hating for having been lying to him. When they're cornered after an attack, she finally has no choice.
This whole time Xendar has thought that the actions of his princess were a little off sometimes, but he just figured it was all do to her spoiled upbringing. When Hope tells him she's not really the princess he is filled with anger. But it quickly dissipates when he finds he can't just abandon Hope anymore. He's already fallen for her. So even when she knocks him out (in order to save him) he's hell bent on doing whatever it takes to save her. No matter how crazy or stupid.
I was pretty satisfied with the ending. From how Xendar saves Hope, to how the real princess deals with everything. The only thing was that the epilogue was unnecessary and way too corny.
scribe391's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Outside the kidnapping, the story is light and humorous
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